Nation of Nations 3/e Davidson, Gienapp, Heyrman, Lytle, and Stoff
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LEARNING OBJECTIVES

When you have finished studying this chapter, you should be able to:

1. Describe the geography and major regions of the South and explain the importance of agriculture to the region.
2. Describe the distribution of slavery in the South.
3. Describe the class structure of the South and its relationship to slavery.
4. Describe the institution of slavery and how it functioned as a labor system and a system for regulating relations between the races.
5. Describe slave culture and how it helped slaves bear up under the pressures of slavery.
6. Discuss the ways slaves resisted the institution of bondage.
7. Describe the various ways southern whites defended slavery.

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