How did the cotton boom change the south’s economy in terms of exports and slavery?

 – Cotton is King: The Antebellum South, 1800-1860

1. How did the cotton boom change the south’s economy in terms of exports and slavery?

2. How did the domestic slave trade differ from the transatlantic one? 3. What is paternalism? How did slave holders use it to their advantage?

4. Why did expansionists set their sights on the annexation of Spanish Cuba?