Chapter 16
“The South and the Slavery Controversy, 1793-1860”
Study Guide

	Point out the economic strengths and weaknesses of the South.
	Describe the southern planter aristocracy and explain its strengths and weaknesses.
	Describe the nonslaveholding white majority of the South and explain

          its relations with both the planter elite and the black slaves.

	Describe the nature of African-American life, both free and slave, before the Civil War.
	Describe the effects of slavery on both blacks and whites.
	Explain the rise of abolitionism and the reactions to it in both the North and the South.

Identification:

American Slavery As It Is

black belt

American Colonization Society

Lane Rebels

The Liberator

American Anti-Slavery Society

gag resolution

free-soilers

Identify: Lyman Beecher, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Nat Turner, Liberia,
Theodore Dwight  Weld, Denmark Vesey, Lane Theological Seminary, 
William Lloyd Garrison, David Walker, Sojourner Truth, Martin Delaney,
Frederick Douglass, John Quincy Adams, Elijah Lovejoy