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SOCIAL STUDIES STUDY GUIDE – Chapter 9: The South
Lesson Vocabulary
9-1
-railroads
-capital
(29)
-Upper South
-Deep South
9-2
(26)
9-3
(38)
-railroads
-literacy
-tenant farmers
-overseer
-marriage
-slave codes
-runaways
-spiritual
-extended
families
People, Places, Documents
-Eli Whitney
-William Gregg
-Joseph Reid Anderson
-Chief means of transportation
of goods in the South?
-Why the South before 1860
was mostly rural.
-Yeomen – How did they live?
-cotton exchanges
-Different jobs of slaves (field
hands, domestic workers, etc. –
most slaves were __________)
-Education in the South – how
did geography and population
affect education?
-The Underground Railroad
-Nat Turner
-Harriet Tubman
-Denmark Vessey
-Frederick Douglass
-By 1860, why had most African
Americans slaves been born in
the South?
-How did most runaway slaves
get punished after capture?
Main Ideas Write at least 2 sentences for EACH main idea
-Know and understand why cotton production moved west.
-Know and understand why the South did not industrialize during this time
period. (4 reasons)
-Know and understand what let to slow city growth in the South.
-Know and understand the major mode of transportation in the South.
-Know and understand the major effects of the cotton gin.
-Know and understand the roles of the wives of most plantation owners.
-Know and understand what most free African Americans in the South did
and where they lived.
-Know and understand how literacy differed in the North and South and
why?
-Know about New Orleans, Charleston, Mobile, and Savannah and what role
these cities played in the cotton economy.
-Know and understand the general feeling of poor white southerners about
enslaved people.
-Know and understand the ways slaves resisted slavery other than
rebellion.
-Know and understand how African Americans endured the harshness of
slavery.
-Know and understand what U.S. document caused people to question
slavery.
-Know and understand where most slaves who were successful in obtaining
freedom came from.
-Know and understand the religious paths of many enslaved African
Americans.
-Know and understand how African Americans were able to create family
lives.
Essay Questions (Be prepared to answer both of the following questions on your chapter test.)
1. Why did Southern states not industrialize?
2. Describe the development of a distinctive African American culture.