What was the South’s relationship with cotton after the Civil War? What effects did growing it have on the South? How did ex-planters try to use nature to control ex-slaves?What other types of resource extraction were practiced in the South? What impacts did these have on the South’s people and nature?

Steinberg 7 & 8 Quiz
Do the reading and answer the following questions make sure for the long answer to write a 1-3 paragraphs and for the short a few sentences.
Steinberg 7
Long answers should be 1-3 paragraphs — short answers are a few sentences to a paragraph
What was the South’s relationship with cotton after the Civil War? What effects did growing it have on the South? How did ex-planters try to use nature to control ex-slaves?What other types of resource extraction were practiced in the South? What impacts did these have on the South’s people and nature?
Steinberg 8
Why does Steinberg say at the very beginning of this chapter that the West “was all a big mistake?” What implications does that have? What were the ecological impacts of gold mining? What was the history of Bison? How “successful” was wheat farming and cattic ranching in the West?

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