Topic #9 Overview Sheet
 
  Assignment #1
 

Sources:
 

Questions:
  1. What was "the most important economic development in the South of the mid-19c?"  What caused this, and what was its economic impact?
  2. What were the agricultural region in the South?  What crops were grown in them?
  3. How did cotton become "king" in the South?  What did this mean for the development of the region?
  4. What role did the "business classes" of the South play in the region's economic development?  What element was most important in this group and why?
  5. What is meant by the statement that the Antebellum South had a "colonial" economy?
  6. What was the "Cavalier" image?  How were southern planters able to create it?
  7. Though only a small minority of southern whites owned slaves, the region was seen--both by the outside world and by many southerners themselves--as a society dominated by great plantations and wealthy landowning planters.  How did this happen?
  8. How did the idea of "honor" affect southern life in the years prior to the Civil War?
  9. How was the role played by affluent southern white women like that of their northern counterparts?  How was it different?
  10. What accounted for the differences between southern and northern women?  Why did so few southern white women rebel against their social/economic roles?
  11. If the typical white southerner was not a great planter, what was he?  What was life like for southern "plain folk' or yeomen?
  12. Why did so few non-slaveholding whites oppose the slaveholding oligarchy?  Where did these opponents live?
  13. How have historical interpretations of the impact of slavery on the slaves evolved over the years?  What factors shaped these historians' assessments?
 

Terms:
 
  Assignment #2
 

Sources:
  • textbook:  mid-pg. 303 - pg. 313;  top of pg. 330 - pg. 337.  
  • H-O-H:   "The Southern View of Slavery."  [Don't print this packet out--I'll give it to you in class]
 

Questions:
  1. What were slave codes?  What function did they serve?  How were they applied?
  2. How was slave life shaped by the slave's relationship with his or her owner?
  3. Explain the debate over the actual material condition of slavery.
  4. How did slavery in the cities differ from slavery on the plantation?  What effect did urban slavery have on the "peculiar institution" and on the relationship between white and black?
  5. How extensive was the practice of manumission in the South?
  6. What was the status of the freed slave in the South?  How did this compare with the status of freed people in the North?
  7. Explain the characteristics of the foreign and domestic slave trade.  On what grounds was this trade criticized?  How did the South answer this criticism?
  8. How did the slave respond to slavery?  What evidence exists to show that slaves did not accept their condition without protest and, in some cases, outright defiance?
  9. What were the most widely recognized slave revolts?  What did they accomplish?
  10. How did the process of adaptation help slaves develop their own separate culture?  How was this a form of resistance as well?
  11. How did music both shape and reflect the lives of African Americans on slave plantations?
  12. What role did religion play in the life of slaves?  What role did the slave family play?
  13. What was the anti-slavery philosophy of William Lloyd Garrison?  How did he transform abolitionism into a new and "dramatically different phenomenon?"
  14. What role did black abolitionists play in the movement?  How did their philosophy compare with that of Garrison?
  15. Who was David Walker?  What was the response of free African-Americans to gradualism and colonization as methods of dealing with the institution of slavery?
  16. Why did many northern whites oppose the abolitionist movement?  How did they show this opposition?
  17. What efforts did abolitionists make to find political solutions to the question of slavery?  How successful were they initially?
  18. How did abolitionists attempt to arouse widespread public anger over slavery through the use of propaganda?  What was the most significant work to emerge from this effort?  Why did it have such an impact?
  19. What was the impact of anti-slavery reform on American national politics in the 1840s?
  20. How effective was the Liberty Party on the national level?
  21. How did pressure of world opinion and Enlightenment ideals combine to end the slave trade and slavery in countries other than the United States?
  22. How did world opinion and Enlightenment ideals influence the abolition movement in the United States?  How, in turn, did American abolitionism help reinforce the movements abroad?
 

Terms:
 
                
Quizzes:
  1. Textbook Quizzes --> chapter 11
  2. My Quizzes -->  A   B

    3.  
Outlines / Lecture Notes / Review Sheets:
  1. Giant AHAP Review Sheet by a student from the class of '04, Horace Greeley HS
  2. Lecture outline --> "The Antebellum South and Slavery" (Prof. David McGee, Central Virginia Community College)
  3. The Peculiar Institution of Slavery - outline
  4. Why Did the Antebellum South Fail to Modernize? - outline
  5. Presidential Election Data --> 1832     1836     1840     1844     1848
  6. Cram Sheet --> James Buchanan Through Andrew Johnson

 


   
 

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