Slavery and Emancipation

What does the Arkansas source material show about antebellum cotton economy in Arkansas depended heavily on?

• Arkansas became a state only after the Civil War ended.
• The antebellum cotton economy in Arkansas depended heavily on enslaved labor
• The Little Rock school crisis had no connection to federal authority.
• Arkansas immediately voted to leave the Union before the Civil War’s opening military crisis.

How should Emancipation ended slavery but be understood?

• Slavery had no connection to antebellum cotton production in Arkansas.
• Arkansas became a state only after the Civil War ended.
• Arkansas immediately voted to leave the Union before the Civil War’s opening military crisis.
• Emancipation ended slavery but was followed by new labor systems such as tenant farming and sharecropping