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)
1 What did “all Americans know was the cause of the war?”
2 What is the “peculiar institution?”
3 The American slave population was the only enslaved population in history to do what?
4 What 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?
6 TJEFF among many founders felt acutely what conflict?
7 What 3 steps does the Federal Government take in 1787, 1808, & 1820 to CHECK THE GROWTH OF SLAVERY?
8 AS COTTON GREW ______, THE SOUTH’S STAKE IN SLAVERY GREW______?
9 War with Mexico, 1846 -1848, what happens to the controversy over slavery?
10 Emerson’s quote (4 words)
11 The acquisition of territory from Mexico reopened what question?
12 The 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?
13 Ultimately, what settles the question and how?
14 Besides Slavery, according to Lincoln, what other two ideas was the Civil War about?
15 What did Southern Rebels call the War?
16 What 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?
18 In the end what did the Civil War bring…nothing but ______?
CH 16 Intro -350 THE SOUTH AND THE SLAVERY CONTROVERSY 1793 - 1860
19 At the beginning of the USA, 1790’s, GW Pres, etc….What were some Southern leaders talking openly of?
20 The dominant Southern Crop was what?
21 This crop created an INSATIABLE DEMAND FOR WHAT?
COTTON IS KING
22 Where geographically are planters drawn to grow this crop?
23 Planters bought more ______and ______to grow more______to buy more______and______?
24 Who “reaped a large part of the profits?”
25 They 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?
27 The export of Cotton accounted for what fraction of all American exports after 1840?
28 The 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?
31 THUS, COTTON WAS ______?
THE PLANTER ARISTOCRACY
32 “OLIGARCHY?”
33 How many families owned more than 100 slaves and were called the “Cottonocracy?”
34 Favorite Author of the elite Southerners?
35 What did these elite Southerners attempt to perpetuate?
36 What did the author Mark Twain call this decaying social structure?
37 Virtually NO SLAVE HOLDING WOMEN BELIEVED IN ______?
SLAVES OF THE SLAVE SYSTEM
38 The economic structure of the South became increasingly what?
39 A prime field hand cost what?
40 Dominance by King Cotton led to a dangerous dependence on what?
41 The Cotton Kingdom repelled what…which added so richly to the manpower and wealth of the North?
42 What % of the Southern population in 1860 were foreigners?
43 What 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?
46 The many who did not own slaves, “poor white trash,” were called what various names (3)?
47 DESPITE NOT OWNING ANY SLAVES, YET, THESE PEOPLE WERE AMONG THE ______OF THE SLAVE SYSTEM*************?
48 If the Slaves were freed what would happen to their “presumed racial superiority?”
49 The 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
53 About how many free blacks lived in the South by 1860?
54 Where did they trace their origins in the upper South?
55 Mulattoes?
56 There were some free blacks who even earned their freedom how?
57 The “third race,” were prohibited from? And forbidden from? And Vulnerable to?
58 By 1860 about how many free blacks lived in the North?
59 Several Northern States forbade what? Most Northern States denied them what? And some barred blacks from what?
60 Which immigrant group disliked blacks the most? Why?
61 MOST 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
63 About how many Slaves lived in the South in 1860?
64 By what factor had they grown since 1800?
65 When did “LEGAL” INTERNATIONAL SLAVE TRADE END IN AMERICA?
66 According 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?
67 How many SLAVETRADERS were punished by this penalty, according to the text?
68 *******Where did this HUGE INCREASE of slave population come from ? (two words)
69 HOW MUCH CAPITAL $$$$ WAS INVESTED IN SLAVES BY 1860? (check the inflation calculator on the web for how much this would be today for XC ?
70 What 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?