When you have finished studying this chapter, you should be able to:
Compare and contrast the similarities and differences in the regional cultures and economies of the South and West. Explain how both economies became incorporated into a national industrial economy.
Explain why cotton continued to dominate the southern economy.
Describe how and why southerners established a "Jim Crow" system of legal racial segregation.
Describe the source of white-Indian conflicts in the West and explain why white settlement proved so devastating to Indian cultures.
Analyze how the building of the railroads both encouraged the development of western resources and provoked resentment.
