The South and the Slavery Controversy

The South and the Slavery Controversy (1793-1860)

Chapter 16

1. At the time of the Revolution why did leaders think slavery would die out? What “saved” the institution and promoted its expansion?

2. State the principle economic reasons that cotton became “king” and thus caused a quadrupling of the slave population between 1776 and 1860.

3. Characterize the “planter aristocracy” of the south.

4. State and characterize the four ways that the plantation system was exploitative. (land butchery, monopolistic, financially unstable, one-crop economy,)

5. Why didn’t the South attract many European immigrants? (Thus,becoming the extreme of a WASP society)

6. What was the percentage of white southerners that owned at least one slave? In general, what was the difference between these slave owners and the plantation oligarchs that were at the top of the southern social class strata?

7. Describe the life and beliefs of the ¾ of the white population that did not own slaves? (aka. why would they be the most ardent supporters of slavery if they didn’t have any?)

8. “Mountain Whites” – What were their views on slavery? (They were supporters of theUnion during the war/ Republican bastions?

9. “Free Blacks” – Characterize the size, locations and rights of these groups. Slavery – the Institution

10. How did the slave population quadruple in the first eighty years of the country’s existence?

11. What were typical views of slave owners concerning their slaves?

12. What rights did slaves have?

13. Describe several of the tragedies that slavery brought to the enslaved? Explain why you think any one is worse than the others.

14. Three Slave Revolts – Name and describe them –

Abolitionism

**15. Manumission Societies – What were they? When did they exist and how successful were they?

16. American Colonization Society (aka. Liberian movement) (1817) – What was this idea and how successful was it?

17. What two events of the 1830’s gave impetus to the abolitionist movement? 18. Define the contributions of the following people to the abolitionist cause–

Theodore Dwight Weld – Arthur and Lewis Tappan – William Lloyd Garrison – Wendell Phillips David Walker – Sojourner Truth Martin Delaney – Frederick Douglass -

19. What was the difference between the Garrisonians and the political abolitionists supported by Frederick Douglass?

20. Why after approx. 1830, did the South increasingly become a “closed society” and what aspects illustrate this closed mentality?

21. Positive Good Theory – Define its tenets.

22. Define through examples the impact that abolitionism had on the nation