369 AP US HISTORY
AMERICA: PAST AND PRESENT
EIGHTH EDITION
CHAPTER 11: MASTERS AND SLAVES
LEARNING TARGETS
1. Understand why Nat Turner’s rebellion was a turning point in the treatment of slaves
2. Breakdown how southern society was divided by race and economics by percentages
a. Pay attention to the lives of free blacks in the south
3. Describe the typical life for a slave
a. Differences between upper south and deep south
i. Community and kinship lines
4. Describe the development of the “invisible institution”
5. Identify the means of as well as success and failures of slave rebellions.
6. Analyze the role of the planter in the South
7. Identify the attitudes towards and justification of slavery by white southern society.
8. Identify the differences between the planter class, small slave holder, and yeoman class
9. Understand the importance of slavery in the southern economy and why slavery
skyrocketed in numbers
10. Identify the relationship between slavery and industrialization
11. How has the profitability issue in regard to slavery evolved over time?
AP Topic Outline
Transformation of the Economy and Society in
Antebellum America
The transportation revolution and creation of a
national market economy
Beginnings of industrialization and changes in social
and class structures
Immigration and nativist reaction
Planters, yeoman farmers, and slaves in the cotton
South
Terms to identify
Old South
Cotton Belt
Task system
African Methodist Episcopal Church
Vesey Conspiracy
David Walker
William Lloyd Garrison
Frederick Douglass
1831
Religion, Reform, and Renaissance in Antebellum
America
Evangelical Protestant revivalism
Social reforms
Ideals of domesticity
Transcendentalism and utopian communities
American Renaissance: literary and artistic
expressions
Underground Railroad
King Cotton
Yeoman farmers
American Colonization Society
The Impending Crisis of the South
Cotton gin
J.D.B.Debow
Nat Turner Rebellion
Pg. 363
On August 22, 1831, Nat Turner led a group of slaves on a rampage. They went from
plantation to plantation and picked up more slaves as they went along. They killed over sixty
whites. Turner was a preacher and a prophet who led the rebellion because he said God had told
him to. White forces broke up the slaves and the rebellion ended within forty-eight hours.
1836-1844
Gag Rule
In class
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