Question 1

What were the major geographical regions of the Old South? Explain how the geography of the South was a force of both unity and division.

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Question 2

How did the conditions of slavery make it especially difficult for slaves to establish their own culture? How did slave communities work to overcome this?

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Question 3

"Some [southern plantation] women drew a parallel between their situation and that of the slaves,"
the text reports. What parallels could plantation mistresses draw? Where do the parallels break down? Do you agree with the mistresses' observations?

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Question 4

Do you believe slavery was the most important factor in shaping southern society? If so, explain why, especially since only one-third of southerners were African American and only one-quarter of southern whites owned slaves or were members of slaveowning families. If you do not believe slavery was the most important factor shaping southern society, what factor was (or factors were) more important?

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Question 5

Give three major differences between the North and the South in this period. What was the significance of each of these differences? Which one do you think was the most important, and why?

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Question 6

Explain why the South's dependence on exports made it difficult for an internally diversified economy to develop. How did this dependence retard southern economic development?
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Quiz 13: The Old South

What were the major geographical regions of the Old South? Explain how the geography of the South was a force of both unity and division.

How did the conditions of slavery make it especially difficult for slaves to establish their own culture? How did slave communities work to overcome this?

"Some [southern plantation] women drew a parallel between their situation and that of the slaves," the text reports. What parallels could plantation mistresses draw? Where do the parallels break down? Do you agree with the mistresses' observations?

Give three major differences between the North and the South in this period. What was the significance of each of these differences? Which one do you think was the most important, and why?

Explain why the South's dependence on exports made it difficult for an internally diversified economy to develop. How did this dependence retard southern economic development? ch13 Key