Why did many white southerners consider slavery to be essential to their well-being?

Explanation:

The only way white southerners could produce & pick cotton to meet the needs of the consumer, was by owning slaves. The more slaves, the more cotton produced & picked. All the profits went to the slave owner who in turn; provided awful housing, food, and water,(this made the slave owner richer). Same is true regarding minimum wage, the harder one has to work for their paycheck, the more business owners make for themselves.

QII

Step-by-step explanation:

I'm thinking that this is supposed to be a quadratic and you forgot the ^2 at the end of the (x + 3).  IF this is the case, then the vertex form of a quadratic is

where the h inside the parenthesis with the x- indicates side to side movement and the k indicates up and down movement.  Both translations begin at the origin, of course.  The important thing to remember here is that the form "x -" is constant.  So if our quadratic reflects "x - 3", then it is understood to be "x - (3)" and the movement is 3 units to the right.  If the quadratic reflects "x + 3", then it is understood to be "x - (-3)" and the movement is 3 units to the left.  Our quadratic, then, is shifted 3 units to the left of the origin and up 2 units, putting us in QII.

If this is what it appears to be, (x + 3) + 2, then it is x + 5 which is a line that has no vertex (which is why I'm thinking it must be a mistyped quadratic!)