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Chapter 16 - The South and The Slavery Controversy

1) Explain exactly how important US cotton was to the world economy.

2) Was the south a democracy, or is the text right - that it was an oligarchy? Explain your choice.

3) What was the role of the southern women in plantation society? How did this compare with the role of women in the north?

4) How was the plantation system wasteful? (Pg. 352)

5) As we’ve discussed, immigrants favored the north? How did this contribute to the attitudes of the south in the years leading up to the Civil War?

6) Describe the social pyramid of the south in the mid-nineteenth century.

7) Describe the conditions that led the whites of the southern highlands to be Astaunch unionists.@

8) Describe the lot of the Afree blacks@ in the south.

9) What was the value of the slaves themselves by 1860 in terms of dollars?

10) Summarize ALife under the Lash.@

11) How did this system negatively affect Whites, productivity, and therefore the profitability, of the system that was fighting to preserve slavery in the name of cost containment?

12) Compare and contrast the goals of William Lloyd Garrison and those of the American Anti-Slavery Society?

13) How did Frederick Douglass propose to end slavery?

14) How did the pro-slavery whites attempt to describe slavery as Agood?@

15) Describe their comparison of slavery and Awage slavery@ as practiced in the north?

16) Do you think that they may have had a point? Explain.

17) Describe the AGag Resolution?@ Was this even legal?

18) What did some southerners do about abolitionist mailings?

19) Discuss the reaction and reasons for that reaction to the work of the following:

Lewis Tappan

William Lloyd Garrison

Rev. Elijah P. Lovejoy

20) What was the impression of the south by some in the North by 1850?