Brinkley Chapter 11 Guiding Questions 1. What was "the most important economic development in the South of the mid-nineteenth century"? What caused this, and what was its economic impact? 2. What elements were necessary for extensive industrial development? Did the South possess these? If not, why not? 3. What groups made up the planter aristocracy? 4. How was the role played by affluent southern white women like those of their northern counterparts? How was it different? 5. If ?the typical white southerner was not a great planter," what was he? Describe and explain the way of life of the southern "plain folk"?men and women. 6. Why did so few non-slaveholding whites oppose the slaveholding oligarchy? Where did these opponents live?