HIS 315K UNIT 4 STUDY GUIDE

Slavery, Cotton, and Manifest Destiny

HOW TO USE THE STUDY GUIDE

This study guide is designed to help guide your learning for this unit. Use this structure to
generate and organize terms, ideas, questions, and your own key insights from each lesson.

As you read, discover, and learn from your course materials, you should continue to add
information and evidence from each lesson, and to record your responses to each unit question.
By the end of the unit, the work you do in this guide will become a thorough review sheet that
you can use to develop strong and well-supported exam essays.

PART 1: ESSENTIAL QUESTIONS

Before you start your reading for this unit, take a look at the following questions. These
questions are important, because they are the broad questions that summarize each day’s
lesson. As you read, try to identify information and evidence that can help you answer each
question. When you find key passages, note the page numbers and sources, so that you can
access this information easily later for studying and assessments.

Questions Citation
Directions: Preview these questions before reading. Directions: Note page
numbers and sources
from your readings or
the Crash Course
videos.
How is the issue of slavery tied up with American expansion the issue of slavery tied up
westward? with the american
expansion westard because
the epansion carried slaves
down west into mississipio
alabama crossing rhe
mississipi river into louisiana
How did the culture of the south influence the various aspects of the southern culture had
slavery practiced there? influnced slavery in a vast
amount of ways many of
them being in their practices
Why was William Lloyd Garrison considered such a radical in the william lloyd garrison was
Abolition Movement and what changes did radical abolitionists seek considered a radical in the
in American society and government? movement with the
abolishshment of slavery
with his newspaper writing
How did some individuals balance abolitionism and the culture of women had played a big
being 19th century women in the United States? role in the aboliotionist
movement
How did the economy and culture of the South revolve around it was extremely profitable
slavery? because of slavery making a
lot of money

PART 2: INTRODUCTORY TERMS AND IDEAS

To prepare for the beginning of the unit quiz, read and watch all assigned material in Lesson 1.
Write the definition, time period and/or date, and historical significance of each term in the
space provided, and connect each term to a course Big Idea (American Identities, Reform and
Renewal, Self and Society, Labor and Technology, America in the World). The time period and
dates will help you to construct historical chronologies in Part 4 of this guide.

Terms Time Definition and Significance Course

Period Big Idea
and/or
Date(s)
1830s Movement to end slavery

Abolition reformed grou trying to get rid of slavery.

Movement many northerners ignored the movement.
1820-1860 Southern economy depended on slave labor where cash
crops like cotton and tobacco were grown on plantations

Cotton Economy / south wanted to protect slavery as they were making

Cotton Revolution millions of dollar off cotton and etc.
the removal of natives lead to more slavery and land.
1793 A machine for cleaning the seeds from cotton fibers,
invented by Eli Whitney in 1793

the gotten gin was a new technology that increased the

production, this was introduced by the south.
cotton gin when the south focused just on cotton the workloads of
slaves increased, investing more money in land and labor.
1800s
Combat between two persons, especially one fought with
weapons in front of witnesses
dueling
upperclass white men to settle disputes.
1802-1837 newspaper efitor and a bolinist who was shot and killed
Elijah Lovejoy by a pro slavery mob in alton illinos

18th century
Evangelical Religion
converted the slaves to christianty.
(1817-1895) American abolitionist and writer, he escaped slavery and
became a leading African American spokesman and
writer. He published his biography, The Narrative of the
Frederick Douglass Life of Frederick Douglass, and founded the abolitionist
newspaper, the North Star.
1845 the idea that americans were destined to expand
Manifest Destiny westward and conquer the entire north american
continent
1846-1848 a war fought between the united states and mexico over
where the border would be. Mexico wanted the border
to be the Nueces river but America wanted the rio
grande to be the border. America won
Mexican War
whig party will opppose.
1831 a slave rebellion led by Nat turner where rebel slaves
 killed 55-65 people, it was one of the largest and
deadliest slave revolts in US history

slave uprising in virginia, 100s of enslaved and free blacks

Nat Turner's were arrested, virigina will pass new restrictions on free
Rebellion blacks. whites will grow more vocal on the defense of
slavery (virgina)
1865 they were paid to get the most work out of the slaves
overseers

the devlopemnte of community and culture will help

start familys for kids. (these familys dont always stay
together.
pregnant had to hard labor while having a kid, possibly
her and the kid seperate and could be raped by owner.

alot of southern man had honor where you are married

1956 to one man and one man only.

peculiar institution when a women married her stuff became the mans
ownership.
1833 cotton hybrid planted by the plantert ruhs nutt at his
Petit Gulf cotton laurel hill plantation

1836 Occurred in 1836 after Sam Houston led a successful

Texas revolt to overthrow Mexican control over Texas
Independence &
Annexation

1848 Treaty that ended the Mexican War, granting the U.S.
Treaty of control of Texas, New Mexico, and California in exchange
Guadalupe Hidalgo for $15 million

mid 19th secret and safe routes to escape slaves into freedom
Underground century
Railroad

1768 A system of payment whereby workers are compensated

on the bases of a wage not tied to the quality of the raw
Wage Labor materials, accidents, or other exigencies in the
production process
1805-1879 1805-1879. Prominent American abolitionist, journalist
and social reformer. Editor of radical abolitionist
newspaper "The Liberator", and one of the founders of
William Lloyd the American Anti-Slavery Society.
Garrison
ablonistinst he wrote a newspaper the libreator.
plantation owners had them mainly.
majority of people did not own slaves in the south.
southeners believed slavery was humained.
poor white farmers didnt mind slaves they wanted to be seen as higher.
slave marriages divorces where split up from being sold "sold down the river"

deep crops south had cotton mid west had wheat golfcoast had sugar

after mexican american war the main arguement is the expansion of slavery slave or free

railroads was transportation between each other.

they dont want competiton they want to be on higher status.