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Chapter 16

This document is a study guide for Chapter 16 of an AP US History course about the South and slavery controversy from 1793 to 1860. It includes a list of 16 terms to define related to influential people and events during this period. It also provides 16 short answer questions about various aspects of slavery, plantation society, resistance to slavery, and the growing abolitionist movement in the North. The questions cover topics such as the lives of slaves and slaveholders, the domestic slave trade, rebellions by slaves, and the proslavery arguments made by Southerners.

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Chapter 16

This document is a study guide for Chapter 16 of an AP US History course about the South and slavery controversy from 1793 to 1860. It includes a list of 16 terms to define related to influential people and events during this period. It also provides 16 short answer questions about various aspects of slavery, plantation society, resistance to slavery, and the growing abolitionist movement in the North. The questions cover topics such as the lives of slaves and slaveholders, the domestic slave trade, rebellions by slaves, and the proslavery arguments made by Southerners.

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AP US History

Chapter

16

Study
Guide

Name______________________________________

Period_________

The South and the Slavery Controversy


1793-1860

Terms and Names: Define each term with complete sentences, using your own words
A.
B.
C.
D.
E.
F.

Sir Walter Scott


hillbillies
Nat Turner
American Colonization Society
William Lloyd Garrison
The Liberator

G. Sojourner Truth
H. Frederick Douglass
I. Narrative of the Life of
Frederick Douglass
J. 1836 Gag Resolution
K. Reverend Elijah P. Lovejoy

Short Answer: Carefully answer each question in paragraph form using information from the

text.
1. Explain the phrase, Cotton is King! including trade links to the North and Britain.
2. Describe the typical lifestyle of an antebellum Southern planter aristocrat, the so-called
cottonocracy, and their place and role in politics and society.
3. Describe how Plantation Society shaped the lives of southern slaveholding women.
4. Discuss the profitability and instability of the institution of slavery and cotton, including
its impact on the land and on immigration to the South.
5. Describe the lives and economic status of the majority of Southern white community.
6. Understand the uniqueness of mountain whites of the Southern highlands, and
explain their impact on the impending Civil War.
7. Explain the status of free blacks in the South and the North.
8. Explain what it meant to be sold down the river.
9. Describe the work routines and living conditions of slaves in the antebellum South.
10. Describe the characteristics of family life in slave communities of the antebellum South.
11. Describe the workings of the domestic slave trade in the antebellum South.
12. Discuss the various ways, including specific rebellions, that slaves resisted slavery.
13. Explain the impact of the Second Great Awakening on the abolitionist movement.
14. Understand how Nat Turners Rebellion, The Liberator, and the Nullification Crisis
created a backlash against antislavery movements in the South.
15. Outline the major points of the proslavery argument made by Southerners.
16. Outline the impact of abolitionism in the North.

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