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• Virginia's agricultural base collapsed after 1800 from two centuries of poor farming practices.
• Between the Revolution and the Civil War, more than one million Virginians left for the Deep South or West.
• Virginians took their culture with them, including slavery. Whether slavery would be allowed in the West became a sectional issue in the 1850s.
• Slavery died out in the North but expanded in the South because of cotton. The country polarized into regions--one slave and one free.
• As northerners attacked slavery, Virginians developed an identity with other slave states as southerners.
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