Slavery and Emancipation

How should expansion of cotton plantations in antebellum Arkansas be understood?

• Arkansas immediately voted to leave the Union before the Civil War’s opening military crisis.
• The Arkansas region was never part of the Louisiana Purchase.
• The expansion of cotton plantations in antebellum Arkansas was inseparable from the institution of slavery
• Slavery had no connection to antebellum cotton production in Arkansas.

Which choice correctly explains Postwar sharecropping and tenant farming illustrate how labor systems?

• Postwar sharecropping and tenant farming illustrate how labor systems changed after slavery while agricultural dependence persisted
• Slavery had no connection to antebellum cotton production in Arkansas.
• The Little Rock school crisis had no connection to federal authority.
• Arkansas became a state only after the Civil War ended.