1. THE SOUTH EXPANDS: SLAVERY AND SOCIETY
Unit III, Chapter 12, Lesson 6

2. CRASH COURSE APUSH - SLAVERY
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3. THE COTTON KINGDOM
What is the effect of the growth of cotton production on slavery?
What was life like for the planter elite?
What was life like for the majority that didn’t own slaves?

4. DEMOCRACY IN THE SOUTH What was the effect of the secret ballot?
Who did political policies of the era reflect the views of?
How did the South attempt to diversify?

5. AFRICAN AMERICAN WORLD
What was evangelical black protestantism? What were it’s views and effects?
What was slave culture like?
What was marriage/kinship like in the slave society?
Why was resistance to slavery not prevalent?

6. FREE AFRICAN AMERICANS
What was life like for free blacks in the United States?
What was the role of free blacks?

7. READING Read Slave Auction in Richmond, VA (1854) - pp. 303-305
Slave Management on a Mississippi Plantation (1852) - pp
A Slave Named Ben (1826) - pp
Edmund Ruffin Defends Slavery - pp
The Enslavement of Solomon Northup (1841) - pp
After reading do the following:
Summarize the reading
Describe/assess what life would be like in the South during the antebellum period based on your reading.

8. CHRISTMAS SONG CREATION
Create a song (based on a Christmas song) about the South during the Antebellum Era.
Topics that need to be included in your song:
The Cotton Kingdom (effects of the increase of cotton production)
Life for whites in the South (wealth planters, yeomen farmers)
Make sure your song is CLEAN and creative! You will be sharing this with the class.

9. QUIZ QUESTIONS CREATION
Based on chapter 12, create TEN multiple choice AP questions that you could see on the quiz next class. Remember, these should be AP level questions.
Create one short answer quiz question.