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Life and Culture in Antebellum America: North & South
Life and Culture in Antebellum America: North & South
Active Reading Questions
Active Reading Questions
Chapter 11-12
Chapter 11-12
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. These are not all in the text but are all significant nonetheless.
FACTS: figures, people, and places. Be prepared to identify, define, describe, and explain the significance of the people, places, and events listed below. These are not all in the text but are all significant nonetheless.
1. King Cotton2. Cavalier Myth3 .Deep South 4. De Bow's Review5. Cult of Honor6. plain folk7. hill people8. peculiar institution9. antebellum10. slave codes11. task system12. gang system13. Gabriel Prosser14. Denmark Vesey15. Nat Turner16. slave resistance17. spirtuals18. Abolitionists19. Brook Farm20. Robert Owen21. New Harmony22. Oneida Community23. Shakers24. Mormons25. Joseph Smith26. Second Great Awakening27. Charles G. Finney28. Burned over district29. Temperance30.Horace Mann31. Dorothea Dix32. Transcendentalism33. Grimke sisters34. American Women's Moral Reform 35. Lucretia Mott36. Elizabeth Cady Stanton37. Seneca Falls Convention38. Declaration of Sentiments39. Lucy Stone40. American Colonizing Society41. Liberia42. William Lloyd Garrison43. The Liberator44. Frederick Douglas45. The North Star46. Elijah Lovejoy47. American Antislavery Society48. Personal Liberty Laws49. Underground Railroad50. Uncle Tom's Cabin51. Catherine Beecher52. Harriet Beecher Stowe
Essential Questions: Think about these questions before, during, and after the reading you do. If you understand their complexity and feel confident in using information from the text and the supplementary reading in answering these very general questions, you should understand the period well.
Essential Questions: Think about these questions before, during, and after the reading you do. If you understand their complexity and feel confident in using information from the text and the supplementary reading in answering these very general questions, you should understand the period well.
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?
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