RQ CH 16 Part 1 pp 348 -359 “life”
WITHOUT QUESTION ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT PIECES OF READING YOU WILL DO FOR THIS CLASS…PAY ATTENTION TO THE DETAILS.
Visuals
1 348 Photo – what crop?
- Where?
- Who?
- What is the Foundation of the Southern Economy in the 19th Century?
2 Opening Quote – 350 – Who?
-according the speaker…what penalty does the slave owner incur?
3 PC 351 – What are the two (2) pillar(s) on which the Southern Economy is based in the 1st ½ of the 19th century?
4 Bbox 351- Who? When? Positive or negative view of Slavery?
5 352 Print – Examine the Slaves in the Print…What is their general condition?
6 353 chart*** Title?
- Last Sentence Copy?
7 354 -55 four (4) Map(s)****
- Title (s)?
- Caption bottom 355..What word does the speaker use to describe the two areas? His Solution?
- Compare the map(s) top to bottom and across….
-What 5 states dominate Cotton production by 1860?
- What 7 states dominate the population of Slaves by 1860?
8 Painting and Picture 358 – What is hanging from the collar in both the painting and picture?
9 Quote P 359 – Who?
Copy?
Reading Questions
Blue Pages**** 348 – 349***** [huge…this basic info sets up the next two units] (and will be a huge help understanding all of the issues)
1What did “all Americans know was the cause of the war?”
2What is the “peculiar institution?”
3The American slave population was the only enslaved population in history to do what?
4What managed to flourish under slavery?
5“A cancer in the heart of American Democracy,” “A moral outrage that mocked the nations claim to be a model of social and political enlightenment,” AS TIME WENT ON…MORE AND MORE CALLED FOR WHAT?
6TJEFF among many founders felt acutely what conflict?
7What 3 steps does the Federal Government take in 1787, 1808, & 1820 to CHECK THE GROWTH OF SLAVERY?
8AS COTTON GREW ______, THE SOUTH’S STAKE IN SLAVERY GREW______?
9War with Mexico, 1846 -1848, what happens to the controversy over slavery?
10Emerson’s quote (4 words)
11The acquisition of territory from Mexico reopened what question?
12The book claims that a series of ineffectual efforts (3) were attempted to come to grips with the above question…what events in 1850, 1854, & 1857?
13Ultimately, what settles the question and how?
14Besides Slavery, according to Lincoln, what other two ideas was the Civil War about?
15What did Southern Rebels call the War?
16What two things does the Civil War “unarguably” establish?
17“Reconstruction,” begins in 1865…what two things frustrate the goal of making the emancipated blacks full-fledged American citizens?
18In the end what did the Civil War bring…nothing but ______?
CH 16 Intro -350 THE SOUTH AND THE SLAVERY CONTROVERSY 1793 - 1860
19At the beginning of the USA, 1790’s, GW Pres, etc….What were some Southern leaders talking openly of?
20The dominant Southern Crop was what?
21This crop created an INSATIABLE DEMAND FOR WHAT?
COTTON IS KING
22Where geographically are planters drawn to grow this crop?
23Planters bought more ______and ______to grow more______to buy more______and______?
24Who “reaped a large part of the profits?”
25They would sell this good where?
26“To a large degree, the prosperity of both the North and the South rested on the bent backs of whom?
27The export of Cotton accounted for what fraction of all American exports after 1840?
28The South produced more than ______of the ENTIRE WORLD’S SUPPLY?
29**********Who was the leading industrial nation in the world? What was their single most important manufacture? What % of its population depended on this for a job? What % of their cotton came from the South?
30***********IF WAR WAS EVER TO HAPPEN BETWEEN THE NORTH AND SOUTH….WHAT COUNTRY DID THE SOUTH EXPECT TO COME TO THEIR AID…DUE TO THEIR DEPENDENCE ECONOMICALLY ON COTTON?
31THUS, COTTON WAS ______?
THE PLANTER ARISTOCRACY
32“OLIGARCHY?”
33How many families owned more than 100 slaves and were called the “Cottonocracy?”
34Favorite Author of the elite Southerners?
35What did these elite Southerners attempt to perpetuate?
36What did the author Mark Twain call this decaying social structure?
37Virtually NO SLAVE HOLDING WOMEN BELIEVED IN ______?
SLAVES OF THE SLAVE SYSTEM
38The economic structure of the South became increasingly what?
39A prime field hand cost what?
40Dominance by King Cotton led to a dangerous dependence on what?
41The Cotton Kingdom repelled what…which added so richly to the manpower and wealth of the North?
42What % of the Southern population in 1860 were foreigners?
43What 3 three factors discouraged immigration to the South?
THE WHITE MAJORITY
44*********ALL TOLD ONLY WHAT FRACTION OF WHITE SOUTHERNERS OWNED ANY SLAVES?
45********* OR WHAT FRACTION OWNED NONE 0 NADA SLAVES?
46The many who did not own slaves, “poor white trash,” were called what various names (3)?
47DESPITE NOT OWNING ANY SLAVES, YET, THESE PEOPLE WERE AMONG THE ______OF THE SLAVE SYSTEM*************?
48If the Slaves were freed what would happen to their “presumed racial superiority?”
49The logic of what joined with the illogic of what to buttress the slave system?
50*********HOW DO THE MOUNTAIN WHITES LOOK UPON THE WAR BETWEEN NORTH AND SOUTH…A QUOTE?
51*********WHAT SIDE TO MOUNTAIN WHITES GENERALLY TAKE IN THE CIVIL WAR?
52*********GENERATIONS AFTER THE CIVIL WAR WHERE WAS THE ONLY CONCENTRATED REPUBLICAN STRENGTH IN THE “SOLID DEMOCRATIC SOUTH” TO BE FOUND?
FREE BLACKS: SLAVES WITHOUT MASTERS
53About how many free blacks lived in the South by 1860?
54Where did they trace their origins in the upper South?
55Mulattoes?
56There were some free blacks who even earned their freedom how?
57The “third race,” were prohibited from? And forbidden from? And Vulnerable to?
58By 1860 about how many free blacks lived in the North?
59Several Northern States forbade what? Most Northern States denied them what? And some barred blacks from what?
60Which immigrant group disliked blacks the most? Why?
61MOST OF THE AGITATION IN THE NORTH AGAINST THE SPREAD OF SLAVERY INTO THE (WEST) NEW TERRITORIES IN THE 1840’S AND 1850’S [FREE SOIL IDEOLOGY] GREW OUT OF WHAT? AND NOT WHAT?
62************”It was sometimes observed that white Southerners, liked the black as an ______, but despised the ______. The white Northerner often professed to like the ______but disliked the ______.”
PLANTATION SLAVERY
63About how many Slaves lived in the South in 1860?
64By what factor had they grown since 1800?
65When did “LEGAL” INTERNATIONAL SLAVE TRADE END IN AMERICA?
66According to the text, thousands of slaves were illegally brought to America due to the high demand and profits… WHAT WAS THE PENALTY FOR ILLEGAL SLAVE TRADING?
67How many SLAVETRADERS were punished by this penalty, according to the text?
68*******Where did this HUGE INCREASE of slave population come from ? (two words)
69HOW MUCH CAPITAL $$$$ WAS INVESTED IN SLAVES BY 1860? (check the inflation calculator on the web for how much this would be today for XC ?
70What was the price of a prime field hand by 1860? ( again check how much it would be today)
71**********WHAT FIVE STATES IN THE DEEP SOUTH, HAD A MAJORITY OR NEAR MAJORITY OF BLACKS AS POPULATION…AND ACCOUNTED FOR ABOUT ½ OF ALL SLAVES IN THE SOUTH?
72**********WHAT WAS NOT OPENLY ENCOURAGED , according to the text (seriously, though ????), ?
73*********HOW MANY BABIES WOULD A “RATTLIN GOOD BREEDER,” HAVE TO DELIVER TO “EARN THEIR FREEDOM?”
74********What event was among the most revolting aspects of slavery?
75********”WHAT WAS PERHAPS SLAVERY’S GREATEST PSYCHOLOGICAL HORROR?”
76********* WHAT BOOK BY WHAT AUTHOR SEIZES ON THE POWER OF THIS THEME?
RQ CH 16 Part 2 pp. 359 – 370 V.V.
Visuals
1 359 – Painting and Poster – Quote in caption, Who?
- Copy
2 360 Photo – How is this ironic?
3 361 Photo and Painting – In the photo caption…after 1848, who had to wear these tags in S.C.? Why?
- In the Painting, where were the Slaves leaving and where were they going?
4 364 Map – Title?
- What two types of emancipation occurs in the North?
5 365 Photos – Who?
- Who was the most vilified of the early abolitionists?
6 366 Photo – Who ? Most prominent what?
7 ****368 PC – Title?
- Perspective?
Which would YOU rather be and why?
8 *****369-70 Varying viewpoints – Title?
- By the early 20th century historians began to show a romantic version of the “Old South.” Ulrich BonnellPhiillip makes three (3) key arguments:
1 Slavery was a ______.
2 Slavery was a ______and the planters treated their chattel’s with ______.
3 he believed blacks were ______and ______by nature. AND DID NOT ______the institution that enslaved them.
- What has more sophisticated economic analysis shown about Phillip’s claim that slavery was dying away?
- With what group does Stanley Elkins compare the slave system with in 1959?
- Most recently, historians have…asserted the ______of Slavery.
Reading Questions
Life Under the Lash
9 White Southerners often ______about the “happy life” of slaves.
10 What 3 factors affected how slaves lived?
11 Everywhere, of course, slavery meant what 3 things?
12 ______were common.
13 The ______was the substitute for the Wage-Incentive system.
14 Slaves were sometimes sent to ______.
15 By 1860 most slaves were concentrated in the “______.”
16 A majority of Blacks lived on ______.
17 Slave marriage vows sometimes proclaimed, what?
18 Most slaves were raised, remarkably, in stable ______households.
19 Blacks in slavery molded their own distinctive religious forms from a mixture of what two elements?
20 What story from the Bible appealed to slaves the most?
The Burdens of Bondage
21 Slaves were denied an education because reading brought ______and ______brought discontent.
22 What fraction of Adult Slaves were illiterate at the beginning of the Civil War due to laws forbidding educating slaves?
23 What resistance method fostered the “MYTH” of laziness?
24 What two other methods of resistance are mentioned?
25 Slaves universally “pined” for their ______.
26 “She is dead but She is ______.
27 1800 Rebellion led by ? Where?
28 1822 rebellion led by? Where?
29 1831 Rebellion led by? Where?
30 What 3 things fostered the brutality of Slavery?
31 Whites FEARS bolstered an intoxicating theory of what?
32 and turned the South into what?
33 One of the last bastions of slavery where?
Early Abolitionists****
34 What denomination of Christianity forms the earliest anti-Slavery societies at the time of the Revolution?
35 What is founded in 1817, to transport free blacks back to Africa in Liberia established for this purpose?
36. Do most freed Slaves in the USA wish to go back to Africa?
37 Which Country in 1833 frees its slaves in the West Indies?
38 What motivated Abolitionists in the 1830’s…”inflamed their hearts?”
39 What Brothers influence Dwight Weld to attend Lane Theological Seminary organizing an 18 day debate on slavery ...?
40 What are the debaters called?
41 What pamphlet is published by Weld, called one of the most influential early tracts on abolition published in America?
Radical Abolitionism*****
42 Firing one of the opening broadsides of the Civil War….Who published the 1st edition of the “Liberator”…a militantly abolitionist newspaper on New Years Day, 1831?
43 “I will be as harsh as truth and uncompromising as justice…I am in earnest – I will not equivocate – I will not excuse – I will not retreat a single inch – and I WILL BE HEARD.” THIS APPEARED ON THE TOP OF EVERY ISSUE OF WHICH NEWSPAPER?
44 What is founded in 1833 by dedicated abolitionists?
45 Who is called “abolition’s golden trumpet?”
46 Who wrote, and was later murdered (the south put a 10,000$ bounty on his head), “Appeal to the Colored Citizens of the World?” Which advocated a bloody end to white supremacy…
47 What other two Black Abolitionists are mentioned here…one male one female?
48 Who is called the “Greatest of all Black Abolitionists?”
49 In contrast to Garrison, many other abolitionists look to what (answer) to end slavery?
50 ****What three (3) political parties are formed in 1840, 1848, and in the 1850’s and are backed by political abolitionists?
The South Lashes Back****
51 In the 1820’s were there more anti-slavery societies in the North or South?
52 The Mason-Dixon Line separated what? Literally? Figuratively?
53 What event that occurs in 1831-32 silences the voices of Southern Abolitionism?
54 After the above event what becomes the foundation of the Southern Argument?
55 With whom did the Southerners compare the slaves lives to and claim they were better off?
56 What does Congress do in 1836 to limit the discussion of Slavery?
57 What punishment does the Federal Government threaten Postmasters with who allowed Abolitionist literature to be delivered in the south…THUS WHICH RIGHT PROTECTED IN THE CONSTITUTION IS VIOLATED?
The Abolitionist Impact in the North***
58 Extreme Abolitionists in the North for a long time were what?
59 How much did Southern Planters owe Northern Bankers by the late 1850’s?
60 Who does the “Broadcloth Mob” tie with a rope around his neck and drag through the streets of Boston in 1835?
61 Elijah P. Lovejoy is actually what in response to his newspapers abolitionist leanings in 1837 in Illinois?
62 Those that did not necessarily oppose to abolish slavery completely but fiercely opposed extending it to the Western territories… (THE CAUSE OF THE CIVIL WAR) WHAT WERE THESE PEOPLE CALLED?