Humanities 8

Lesson Nine: The South

1. State Standards
1. US8.7.1 Describe the development of the agrarian economy in the South, identify the locations of the cotton-producing states, and discuss the significance of cotton and the cotton gin.
2. US8.7.3 Examine the characteristics of white Southern society and how the physical environment influenced events and conditions prior to the Civil War.
3. US8.7.4 Compare the lives of and opportunities for free blacks in the North with those of free blacks in the South.
4. US8.7.2 Trace the origins and development of slavery, its effects on black Americans and on the region’s political, social religious, economic, and cultural development; and identify the strategies that were tried to both overturn and preserve it.

2. Objectives
1. Concept Objective(s)

a.      Explain the role of cotton production in the South and why the economy there relied on agriculture.

b.      Discuss why industry did not develop as widely in the South as in the North.

c.Describe life on Southern farms and plantations during the early and mid-1800s.

d.      Identify the economic groups in the South during that period.

e.      Explain what led to the growth in education for Southern whites.

f.     Describe the hardships that enslaved African Americans endured.

g.      Identify elements of the distinct culture that enslaved African Americans created.

h.Explain how enslaved African Americans resisted slavery.

2. Lesson Content

a.      Review chapter 9

3.  Key Vocabulary

1. cotton gin
2. capital
3. yeoman
4. tenant farmer
5. fixed cost
6. credit
7. overseer
8. spiritual
9. slave codes