HOMEWORK

Chapter 11 
Section 1

Why did cotton become King Cotton in the South? Be sure to include trade, industry, transportation and colonial dependency.

Section 2
Discuss the white social sturcture of the Old South? What was their relationship to each other and to the institution of slavery?

Section 3
Was slavery an exploitative instituion or a paternalistic institution? Use evidence to back up your conclusions.

How did slavery in the cities differ from slavery on the plantation? 

How did slaves resist?

Section 4
What role did religion play in the life of slaves? What role did the slave family play?

Chapter 12 

Section 2 
Why did the cities make little headway against recurring epidemics?

Section 4

What was the connections between evangelism, reform, and social control in various social reform movements?

FACTS, figures, people, and places.   Be prepared to identify, define, describe, and explain the significance of the people, places, and events listed below.

1. King Cotton
2. factors
3. Deep South
4. De Bow's Review
5. Cavalier Myth
6. Cult of Honor
7. plain folk
8. hill people
9. peculiar institution
10. antebellum
11. slave codes
12. task system
13. gang system
14. "sambo"
15. Gabriel Prosser
16. Denmark Vesey
17. Nat Turner
18. slave resistance
19. spirtuals
20. Abolitionists
21. Brook Farm
22. Robert Owen
23. New Harmony
24. Oneida Community
25. Shakers
26. Mormons
27. Joseph Smith
28. Second Great Awakening

29. Charles G. Finney
30. Burned over district
31. Temperance
32. Horace Mann
33. Dorothea Dix
34. Transcendentalism
35. Grimke sisters
36. American Women's Moral Reform
37. Lucretion Mott
38. Elizabeth Cady Stanton
39. Seneca Falls Convention
40. Declaration of Sentiments
41. Lucy Stone
42. American Colonizing Society
43. Liberia
44. William Lloyd Garrison
45. The Liberator
46. Frederick Douglas
47. The North Star
48. Elijah Lovejoy
49. American Antislavery Society
50. Personal Liberty Laws
51. Underground Railroad
52. Uncle Tom's Cabin
53. Catherine Beecher
54. Harriot Beecher Stowe
       

1. Discuss the free black population of the Old South.  How many were there by the eve of the Civil War?  Where did most of them live?  Under what economic and legal constraints did they exist?

2. Compare and contrast economic, social, and political developments in the North and South between 1800 and 1860.  How do you account for the divergence between the two sections?

3. The great majority of white southerners never owned a single slave, yet the majority supported the institution of slavery.  Explain why.

4. Discuss the emergence of African-American culture in the Old South.  In what ways did it draw on African experiences?  In what ways did it incorporate the American slave experience?  How did it differ from white southern culture and values?