Exploring American Histories: Printed Page 318
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What role did the planter elite play in southern society and politics?
What were the consequences of the dominant position of slave-based plantation agriculture in the southern economy?
How did enslaved African Americans create ties of family, community, and culture?
How did enslaved African Americans resist efforts to control and exploit their labor?
What groups made up white southern society? How did their interests overlap? How did they diverge?
How and why did the planter elite seek to reinforce white solidarity?
How and why did Indian nations in the Southeast resist removal to the West while some Indians in the West forged ties with U.S. markets?
What events and developments led to a Whig victory in the election of 1840?
How did western expansion both benefit Americans and exacerbate conflicts among them?
How did the Mexican-American War reshape national politics and intensify debates over slavery?