AP Ch. 11 & 12 Study Guide: The South and Slavery & Antebellum Culture & Reform

Ch. 11 KEY TERMS

MUST KNOW: / planter aristocracy “slavocracy” / slave markets
“King Cotton” / “Old South” / Amistad
cotton gin / “southern lady” belle / “sambo”
slavery / “plain folk” / Gabriel Prosser
slave rebellions / Hill People / Denmark Vessey
paternalism / Nat Turner’s Rebellion
ADDITIONAL TERMS: / “poor white trash” / “slave patrols”
“lower South”/Deep South / “peculiar institution” / pidgin
“factors” / “head drivers” / slave spirituals
De Bow’s Review / Task and gang system / slave marriages
“Cavalier” image & Cult of honor / house slaves / kinship networks

Ch. 12 KEY TERMS

MUST KNOW: / Herman Melville – Moby Dick / Asylum Movement
2nd Great Awakening / Edgar Allan Poe / Prison reform - penitentiaries
utopias / Transcendentalists / Dorothea Dix
Cultural nationalism / Ralph Waldo Emerson / Lucretia Mott
Romanticism / Henry David Thoreau / Elizabeth Cady Stanton
perfectionism / “civil disobedience” / “Declaration of Sentiments”
Voluntary organizations / Brook Farm – George Ripley / Susan B. Anthony
temperance / New Harmony – Robert Owen / American Colonization Society (ACS) - Liberia
abolitionism / Oneida – John Humphrey Noyes / William Lloyd Garrison & Liberator
free blacks / Shakers – Mother Ann Lee / American Anti-Slavery Society
slave rebellions / Mormons – Joseph Smith / David Walker
Women’s rights movement / Brigham Young – Salt Lake City / Frederick Douglass
Seneca Falls / Charles Grandison Finney / Fugitive Slave Law
Protestant Revivalism / North Star
ADDITIONAL TERMS / Burned-Over District / Elijah Lovejoy
Hudson River School / American Society for the Promotion of Temperance / Prigg v. Pennsylvania
James Fenimore Cooper / phrenology / Personal liberty laws
Walt Whitman – Leaves of Grass / Horace Mann / Harriet Beecher Stowe

Ch. 11 Essential Questions

  • How did both enslaved and free African Americans attempt to create and preserve elements of culture and family, and fight for rights and freedom?
  • What new technological innovations increased both factory and agricultural production and efficiency?
  • What were the causes and effects of large internal migrations to northern cities and to regions west of the Appalachians?
  • What were the causes and effects of the rise of the cotton industry in the South and how did connect with the industrial and more urban North?
  • How did the continued growth and reliance on agriculture contribute to a growing regional identity in the South?
  • What were the causes and effects of the expansion of cotton production in the South west of the Appalachians?
  • How did both enslaved and free African Americans attempt to create and preserve elements of culture and family, and fight for rights and freedom?

Ch. 12 Essential Questions

  • What were the causes and effects of the Second Great Awakening?
  • What were the key elements and influences of a new national culture (cultural nationalism) that emerged in the era?
  • How did Liberal social ideas from abroad and Romanticism influence literature, art, philosophy, and architecture?
  • How did both enslaved and free African Americans attempt to create and preserve elements of culture and family, and fight for rights and freedom?
  • What were the key voluntary organizations and individuals that contributed to reform movement like Temperance during the Antebellum Period?
  • What were the goals and accomplishments of the Abolition movement and the push for rights for African Americans in the North and the South?
  • What were the goals and accomplishments of the Women’s Rights Movement including the Seneca Falls Convention?