Guide for Chapter 13
American Promise 1043
1. What was Nat Turner’s Rebellion?
2. How did the rise in cotton production influence the South?
3. How were free blacks viewed at this time?
4. What is miscegenation?
5. In what ways did southerners justify slavery?
6. What were the different Southern white social classes?
7. What was the ‘plantation economy’ and how did it work?
8. What were the characteristics of plantation masters and mistresses?
9. Describe slave culture.
10. Describe southern politics.