Slavery Controversy

**REMEMBER: WE WILL WORK ON THIS DURING CLASS ON 11/30.  ESSAY WILL BE WRITTEN DURING FLEX**

INSTRUCTIONS! If you were absent from class on 11/23, you will need to look over this.

Chapter 16 The American Spirit - for PART II

Yale History Course - for PART III
  - White Southern View: Lecture #3 : A Southern World View: The Old South and ProSlavery Ideology 
 - Abolitionists: Lecture #5:Telling A Free Story: Fugitive Slaves and the Underground Railroad in Myth and Reality

Part I: Background Reseach (15%)

Objective: To gain sufficient background knowledge regarding Antebellum Southern Society and Economy, and the rise of the Abolitionist movement. You will need to use Chapter 16 of the textbook.

How: Combining the Frayer Model and Feynman Technique

1. Condense the following objectives into "Big Picture" ideas/concepts

• Point out the economic strengths/weaknesses of the "Cotton Kingdom"
• Describe the southern planter aristocracy and identify its strengths/weaknesses 
• Describe the non slave-holding white majority of the South and explain its relations with both the planter elite and the black slaves 
• Describe the nature of Af-Am. life both free/slave before the Civil War 
• Describe the effects of slavery on both blacks and whites 
• Explain the origins/rise of Abolitionism 
• Describe the Southern Response to abolitionism and its defense of slavery as a "positive good" 

2. For each:

• List out key terms 
• Important Historical Figures 
• Key Events/Processes
• Feynman Technique: short explanation of the concept ( do not need SFI here!!) 

HINT: Here is the vocabulary from the Unit Guide - this could be a START

1.      King Cotton

2.      Planter aristocracy

3.      John C. Calhoun

4.      Nat Turner’s Rebellion

5.      American Colonization Society

6.      The Liberator

7.      American Anti-Slavery Society

8.      David Walker/Appeal

9.      Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass

10.  Gag Resolution

Part II: Historical Thinking Skill - Analyzing Historical sources/evidence (25%)

• Use Ch.16 of the American Spirit to explore EITHER a) White Southern View of Slavery (pg. 362) b) The Abolitionist Crusade (pg.368) 
• Select 2 documents  to a) paraphrase the main points the document asserts b) Discuss the historical context surrounding the documents, focusing on historical processes/events that were happening at the same time and how these might have influenced the viewpoint/message of the document

Part III: YaleCourses Lectures (20%)

• select a lecture appropriate for your topic and write a 1 page summary 

Part IV: Essay (40%) (to be done in class 11/30) 

Prompt:  Outline the philosophical reasoning/justification of either the abolitionist crusade or the white southern defense of slavery.