Chapter 15 The South and Slavery 1793-1860

Critical Thinking Activity: The South and slavery: 1. 1817 2. 1820 3. 1835 4. 1839

1. American Colonization Society formed 2. The Missouri Compromise 3. U.S. Pos Office orders abolition mail destroyed 4. American Slavery as It Is published

Primary Source Activity: Slave auctions: Based on the evidence in the slave auction advertisement, select the summary statements that describe the souther aristocrats' attitude toward slaves. Check all that apply.

1. Slaves were equated to cattle, oxen, tools, and equipment 2. Slaves represented a valuable asset

Map Activity: Rise of the "Cotton Kingdom": Between 1820 and 1860, territory that would become Florida, Arkansas, and______ transformed from areas with little or no slavery to areas with dense concentrations of slavery and cotton plantations. Innovations in________ created a strong trade network in the Deep South. Blacks accounted for approximately 75% of the total population in some areas of this region along the plantation-rich_______.

1. Texas 2. transportation 3. Mississippi River

Critical Thinking Activity: The South and slavery: In the following table, determine whether each statement about the South, slavery, or the abolition movement is true or false. 1. By 1860, nearly all slaves were native-born African Americans. 2. The Free-Soil Party appealed to nonslaveholding southern whites. 3. Defenders of slavery often pointed to the poor working conditions of laborers in northern factories. 4. Emancipation proposals were passed in the Virginia legislature in 1832.

1. True 2. false 3. true 4. false

Primary Source Activity: Slave auctions: After Congress outlawed the importation of slaves in 1808, the internal slave trade grew. Most of the increase of the slave population in the United States came from ________. Many slaves were sold "down the river" from states such as _______ to states in the Deep South. Slave families were often _______ during slave auctions, where humans were sold alongside cattle and horses.

1. natural reproduction 2. Virginia 3. separated

Where did the American Colonization Society establish a home for freed American slaves?

Liberia

Why were slaves denied an education?

Masters believed that reading brought new ideas that might lead to their discontent.

Critical Thinking Activity: The South and slavery: The abolitionist movement, especially the radical viewpoint, was slow to gain support in the North. Which reason best describes northern resistance to this movement?

Northerners revered the Constitution, including the bargained clauses involving slavery.

All of the following are true of family life in slavery along the "black belt" except:

Slaves often married their first cousins.

Image Analysis Primary Source Activity: How does the image represent the plantation in the context of the larger world?

The plantation is directly economically linked to the outside world.

Critical Thinking Activity: The South and slavery: Now, match each of these events with the statement that best describes its historical significance. 1. Sent 15,000 ex-slaves to Africa 2. Restricted slavery from expanding into the Northwest 3. A challenge to the First Amendment and federal agencies 4. Influenced the author of Uncle Tom's Cabin

1. American Colonization Society formed 2. The Missouri Compromise 3. U.S. Pos Office orders abolition mail destroyed 4. American Slavery as It Is published

Which statement is true of the agitation in the North against the spread of slavery into the new territories in the 1840s and 1850s?

It often grew out of race prejudice, not humanitarianism.

In opposition to William Lloyd Garrison, Frederick Douglass believed that slavery should be ended through what?

Organizing an anti-slavery political party

Which of the following is true about white society in the early nineteenth century?

Planter aristocrats represented a small percent of the population.

Proslavery whites defended the institution of slavery in all of the following ways except:

They claimed that slaves were set free once they reached old age.

All of the following were true of the mountain whites of the southern Appalachians except:

They ultimately played a significant role in supporting the Confederacy.

The Deep South "black belt" of slavery stretched across all of the following states except:

Virginia

Image Analysis Primary Source Activity: How does the artist depict working conditions on the plantation?

as relaxed but orderly

Map Activity: Rise of the "Cotton Kingdom": True or False: The rise of the Cotton Kingdom increased the religious differences between the North and South.

false

Image Analysis Primary Source Activity: In what way are the people in the painting equally distributed?

in terms of gender