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STEP 3: PUT IT ALL TOGETHER

CHAPTER 13 STUDY GUIDE

PUT IT ALL TOGETHER

Now, take a step back and try to explain the big picture. Remember to use specific examples from the chapter in your answers.

REGIONAL DIVERGENCE How and why did the economies of the North and South steadily diverge over the course of the first half of the nineteenth century? How did the presence of large numbers of African Americans shape southern culture?	SOUTHERN SOCIETY AND POLITICS How did southern yeomen see themselves and their place in southern society? How was slavery a part of that place? How did slavery shape southern politics?
PLANTATION LIFE How did plantation owners see the relationship between master and slave? How did slavery shape other social relationships in the antebellum South? In what ways did slaves create communities for themselves and develop methods to resist their bondage?	LOOKING BACKWARD, LOOKING AHEAD How did southern slave societies change from the eighteenth to nineteenth centuries? Why did many white Southerners come to believe that slavery had to be preserved at any cost? How might that have influenced national politics?

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