Old Southwest

Target entity: Old Southwest
Context triple: [Clarke County, Alabama, historicalRegion, Old Southwest]

• A. Old Northwest
  The Old Northwest was a historic region of the early United States encompassing the territory north of the Ohio River and east of the Mississippi River, which later became the states of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, Wisconsin, and part of Minnesota.
• B. Southern Renaissance
  The Southern Renaissance was a flourishing early- to mid-20th-century American literary movement centered in the U.S. South, marked by writers who explored themes of history, race, identity, and social change in a modernist style.
• C. Old West
  The Old West refers to the 19th-century American frontier era characterized by westward expansion, cowboys, lawlessness, and conflicts between settlers, Native Americans, and outlaws.
• D. Upper South
  The Upper South is a subregion of the United States generally referring to the northernmost tier of Southern states, often including Kentucky, Virginia, West Virginia, Tennessee, and sometimes parts of neighboring states, distinguished historically and culturally from the Deep South.
• E. American South (19th and early 20th centuries)
  The American South in the 19th and early 20th centuries was a predominantly agrarian, racially segregated region defined by the legacy of slavery, the Civil War, and Jim Crow laws, with a political culture rooted in white supremacy and states’ rights.
• F. None of above. chosen
• G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.

Target entity: Old Southwest
Target entity description: The Old Southwest was a historical region of the early United States encompassing the frontier territories that later became states such as Alabama and Mississippi, known for rapid expansion, cotton agriculture, and conflicts over slavery and Native American lands.

• A. Old Northwest
  The Old Northwest was a historic region of the early United States encompassing the territory north of the Ohio River and east of the Mississippi River, which later became the states of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, Wisconsin, and part of Minnesota.
• B. Southern Renaissance
  The Southern Renaissance was a flourishing early- to mid-20th-century American literary movement centered in the U.S. South, marked by writers who explored themes of history, race, identity, and social change in a modernist style.
• C. Old West
  The Old West refers to the 19th-century American frontier era characterized by westward expansion, cowboys, lawlessness, and conflicts between settlers, Native Americans, and outlaws.
• D. Upper South
  The Upper South is a subregion of the United States generally referring to the northernmost tier of Southern states, often including Kentucky, Virginia, West Virginia, Tennessee, and sometimes parts of neighboring states, distinguished historically and culturally from the Deep South.
• E. American South (19th and early 20th centuries)
  The American South in the 19th and early 20th centuries was a predominantly agrarian, racially segregated region defined by the legacy of slavery, the Civil War, and Jim Crow laws, with a political culture rooted in white supremacy and states’ rights.
• F. None of above. chosen