Chapter 17 Outline-AP US History 							Mrs. Sanchez
Chapter 17 Reading due by Monday November 20, 2000
The South and the Slavery Controversy

I. "Cotton is King!"
A. How did cotton production in the South change over the years?
B. What factors gave the South a sense of power?
II. The Planter "Aristocracy"
A. How was the South an oligarchy?
B. Problems of the Southern economic system
C. Women
III. Slaves of the Slave System
A. Problems with the Plantation System (about 7 different issues)
IV. The White Majority
A. Social Compostion of the South
B. Problems of the "poor white trash"
C. Why poor whites defended slavery?
D. Appalachian Whites
V. Free Blacks:  Slaves without Masters
A. Where did South's free blacks come from?
B. Status of free blacks
C. Free Blacks in the North
VI. Plantation Slavery
A. Growth in Slavery
B. Smuggling
C. Natural Reproduction
D. Form of Wealth
E. Labor avoided by slaves, who were used instead?
F. How did slavery hobble the economic development of the region as a whole?
G. Breeding Slaves
H. Slave Auctions
VII. Life Under the Lash
A. What was life really like?
B. Beatings
C. Where was slavery concentrated?
D. Family life of the Slave
E. Religion among the slaves
VIII. The Burdens of Bondage
A. Degrading Nature of Slavery
B. "Peculiar Institution"
C. How Blacks stopped efficiency of plantation system?
D. Runaways
E. rebellions
F. Mark of Slavery on the whites
G. Statement of Booker T. Washington
IX. Early Abolitionism
A. Quakers
B. American colonization Society
C. Effect of other events on abolitionism
1. Britain
2. Second Great Awakening
3. Theodore Dwight Weld
a. Events
b. Contributions
X. Radical Abolitionism
A. William Lloyd Garrison
B. Garrisons famous statement
C. Wendell Phillips
D. David Walker
E. Sojourner truth
F. Martin Delaney
G. Frederick Douglass
H. Contrast between Garrison and Douglass
XI. The South Lashes Back
A. What events caused a turning point in attitudes in the South?
1.  Virginia
2. slave codes
3. Nat Turner
4. Nullification Crisis
B. Proslavery Whites Defense
C. Happy Master-Slave Relationship
D. Widening chasm between North and South
E. Gag rules
F. Propaganda
XII. The Abolitionist Impact in the North
A. Ideal of Union
B. Northern economic stake in the south
C. Mob Outburst in the South
D. Reverend Elijah P. Lovejoy
E. Changing attitudes toward the South