CHAPTER 11 – Cotton, Slavery, and the Old South

1. THE COTTON ECONOMY

a. The Rise of King Cotton

b. Southern Trade and Industry

c. Sources of Southern Difference

2. WHITE SOCIETY IN THE SOUTH

a. The Planter Class

b. “Honor”

c. The “Southern Lady”

d. The Plain Folk

3. SLAVERY: THE “PECULIAR INSTITUTION”

a. Varieties of Slavery

b. Life under Slavery

c. Slavery in the Cities

d. Free African Americans

e. The Slave Trade

f. Slave Resistance

4. THE CULTURE OF SLAVERY

a. Language and Music

b. African American Religion

c. The Slave Family

Essential Terms

The Following terms appear in the College Board's AP US History Curriculum Framework and, thus, may be used in questions on the AP exam. Students should become familiar with these terms and be able to define them in the context of ...

• international slave trade
• steam engines
• railroads
• telegraph
• free African Americans
• agricultural inventions
• semi-subsistence agriculture
• market revolution
• arable land
• canals
• abolition
• textile machinery

FOCAL TERMS - The following terms are helpful in addressing the Key Concepts and Themes of the course.

• "Upper South" and "lower South"
• Nat Turner
• cotton gin
• slave culture
• "Cotton Kingdom"
• slave religion
• DeBow's Review
• pidgin
• "Cavalier"
• slave music, spirituals
• planter aristocracy
• kinship network
• "Old South"
• short-staple cotton
• Cult of Honor
• yeoman farmer
• plain fold
• Hill people
• paternalism
• paternalism
• "Peculiar Institution"
• slave codes
• slave auctions
• smuggling
• Sambo
• Gabriel Prosser
• Denmark Vesey

Roots

The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman

Beloved

Amistad

Africans in America (PBS)