As soil erosion and exhaustion diminished the availability of cotton land, scarcity and heavy demand forced the price of land and slaves to rise beyond the reach of most, and in newer cotton-growing regions, yeomen farmers were pushed off the land as planters expanded their holdings.
Explanation:
There was great wealth in the South, but it was primarily tied up in the slave economy. In 1860, the economic value of slaves in the United States exceeded the invested value of all of the nation's railroads, factories, and banks combined. On the eve of the Civil War, cotton prices were at an all-time high.
Shaping is an operant conditioning method which selectively reinforces closer approximations of a goal behavior until the desired behavior is displayed.
The Blossom Plan was named after the Superintendent of the Little Rock Schools. Virgil Blossom created a plan with the intention of slowly integrate the Little Rock Schools over time.
