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Please answer each question with 1 paragraph

1. Given that by 1860 the economic investment represented by the slave population exceeded the value of the nation’s factories, railroads, and banks combined, explain how important slavery was to the national economy and the emergence of the United States as a great power.

2. Why did many white southerners support slavery even when they did not actually own any slaves?

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3. What forms of slave resistance were practiced in the American South?

Please answer these questions based on this video: (below is the link)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=24U156LHXYM