The South and the Slavery Controversy
Chapter 16 Notes
How did the invention of the cotton gin change the status of slavery in the U.S.?
How did the North and Great Britain become tied to slavery and the southern cause?
How did slavery and the southern aristocracy positively/negatively shape southern society?
What was the economic and social structure of the South?
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Planter aristocracy
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Smaller slave holders
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White non-slave owners
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Mountain whites
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Free blacks
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Plantation slaves
What were the consequences of slave rebellions?
 Gabriel Prosser– 1800
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Denmark Vesey – 1822
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Nat Turner – 1831
What factors contributed to the abolitionist movement?
 Quakers –
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American Colonization Society
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British –
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Second Great Awakening
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Theodore Dwight Weld
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Arthur and Lewis Tappan
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Lyman Beecher
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Harriet Beecher Stowe
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William Lloyd Garrison
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David Walker
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Sojourner Truth
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Frederick Douglass
Compare the approaches of Garrison and Douglass to abolition:
How did the South react to abolitionism in the U.S.?
What is meant by the term “white apologists”?
How was free speech endangered in the U.S. because of the slavery issue?
How did many northern whites react to abolitionist activities?