Title: US History
Author: CUSD300

US History				Antebellum South				Mr. Thorsen

Section 1  “Economic Adjustment in the Upper South”
	-Explain why the upper South was divided on whether to stick with the plantation 
  economy or switch to the Northern free labor, industrialized system.

Section 2  “The Rise of The Cotton Kingdom”
	-How did cotton strengthen the Southerners’ determination to keep slavery?
	-Why did cotton produce a tendency for large and not small plantations?

Section 3  “Slavery & Industrialization”
	-Why didn’t Southerners from the deep South industrialize?
	-What was the effect of this lack of industrialization and shipping on the Southerners?  
  Explain.

Section 4  “The Profitability Issue”
	-Was slavery an economically dying institution by 1860?  Why or why not?

Section 5  “The Planter’s World”
	-Dispel the myths of the average Southerner being rich, leisurely, and a descendent from 
  an old colonial aristocracy.

Section 6   “The World of the Common Whites”
	-How did slavery and the plantation system prevent yeomen Southern, farmers from 
 economically advancing like their Northern counterparts?

Section 7  “A Closed Mind & A Closed Society”
-Describe the arguments used by pro-slavery advocates.
	-How were Southerners going to “seal off” their land from antislavery ideas and 
  influences?  Who were the targets of this effort and why?

Lecompton & Topeka 
Dred Scott Case
US victory in war with Mexico
Harper’s Ferry
Missouri Compromise
Compromise of 1850
Pottawatomie Massacre
Nullification Crisis
Personal Liberty Laws
Lincoln’s presidential election
Kansas Nebraska Act
Fugitive Slave Law/ Act
Annexation of Texas
Canning of Senator Sumner
Lecompton Constitution
Freeport Doctrine
California annexation
Wilmot Proviso
Uncle Tom’s Cabin