Choose the correct answer(s).
The Old Southwest:
- attracted thousands of settlers in the 1820s and 1830s with its low land prices and suitability for cotton production.
- attracted nearly twice as many female as male settlers in the early years.
- included Texas, Arizona, New Mexico, and Utah.
- soon boasted the nation’s highest standards of public education.
- was a promised land for slaves because of superior work conditions.
