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. Compare and contrast the similarities and differences in the regional cultures of the South and West.
2. Explain why cotton continued to dominate the Southern economy in an era of rapid industrialization and urbanization.
3. Describe how the hopes of the Freedmen under Radical Reconstruction gave way to a "Jim Crow" system of biracial caste.
4. Explain why unusual environmental conditions played such a central role in the development of the West.
5. Describe the source of white-Indian conflicts in the West and explain why white settlement proved so devastating to Indian cultures.
6. Analyze how building of the railroads encouraged the development of western resources and tied them to markets in the East and Europe.

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