Chapter 11 – The Peculiar Institution (antebellum)
READING:
4 Sections
KEY TERMS: 19 Total
The Old South (pages 416 - 428)
1 - 10
Due- Wed. 11/11
Life Under Slavery (pages 429 – 438)
11 – 16
Due – Thursday 11/12
Slave Culture (pages 438 – 443)
17 – 18
Due – Friday 11/13
Resistance to Slavery
19
Due – Mon. 11/16
BONUS:
(pages 443 – 448)
Review & Freedom Questions, Outline, or FBI
HOMEWORK –
1. Key Terms: define key terms
2. Focus Questions: Assigned to individuals
You can use bullet points. Use thorough responses and examples.
3. Bonus: optional but the only way to gain extra points through the year
TEST:
Tuesday, December 1, 2015
(Test on both Ch. 11/12)
TEST DAY COLLECTION:
Key Terms, Homework (Focus Questions), Bonus, Test Corrections
KEY TERMS
Chapter 11 – The Peculiar Institution
1. Frederick Douglass: (416)
2. Slavery in the Old South: (417-419) [Mason-Dixon line, slave population, slavery in
South compared to world, cotton, internal slave trade, rely on natural reproduction]
3. Lords of the Loom: (419)
4. Southern Economy and Slavery: (420-421) [Upper South, southern industry differs
from the North, New Orleans, profit, banks]
5. Southern farmers: (421-422) [small backcountry farmers, relationship of poor and rich
farmers]
6. Planter class: (422-423) [number of slaves possessed by poor and rich farmer by
1850, slaves and status, “prime field hand”]
7. Paternalist Ethos: (423)
8. Proslavery Argument: (424-425, 428)
9. Emancipation in Latin America & Britain: (427)
10. South Carolina & Slavery: (427-428) [John C. Calhoun]
11. Slaves and Laws: (429)
12. Slave Conditions: (429, 432) [South, Caribbean, South America]\
13. Joseph Taper: (430)
14. Bennet Barrow: (431)
15. Free Blacks in the South & North: (432-434) [rights, limit on freedom, Israel Hill]
16. Slave Labor & Punishments/Rewards for Slaves: (434-437, 439) [types of work,
gang labor, overseers, task labor, urban slaves, threat of sale]
17. Slave Culture: (438-442) [family, marriage, gender roles, religion,]
18. Slavery – Desire for Liberty: (442-443) [Frederick Douglass, Brer Rabbit]
19. Slave Resistance: (443-448) [“silent sabotage”, fugitive slaves, Harriet Tubman,
Amistad, Nat Turner’s Rebellion]
Chapter 11 - FOCUS QUESTIONS: (page 416))
Individuals are assigned one of these and must type a response and submit it on
engrade as a “turn-in”.
1. How did slavery shape social and economic relations in the Old South?
2. What were the legal and material constraints on slaves’ lives and work?
3. How did family, gender, religion, and values combine to create distinct slave cultures in
the Old South?
4. What were the major forms of resistance to slavery?
FOCUS QUESTIONS are assigned to the individuals below. Go to Engrade and see
“turn-ins”. This is where you will complete your assigned question no later than Friday,
November 13.
Period 1:
FQ 1: Michael Gharib
FQ 2: Joshua Gibson
FQ 3: Drew Hawthorne
FQ 4: Madison Johnston
Period 7:
FQ1: Sydney Frazier
FQ 2: Brooke Fuller
FQ 3: Joshua Harman
FQ 4: Jaclynn Lucero