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When you have finished studying this chapter, you should be able to:
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Describe the major regions of the South and explain the importance and character of agriculture in the region. |
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Describe the distribution of slavery in the South. |
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Describe the class structure of white southerners and its relationship to slavery. |
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Describe the institution of slavery and how it functioned as a labor system and a system for regulating relations between the races. |
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Describe slave culture and how it helped slaves bear up under the pressures of slavery. |
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Discuss the ways slaves resisted the institution of bondage. |
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Describe the various ways southern whites defended slavery. |