Lesson on Tuesday, December 12, 2017

Aim: How did the creation of a cotton-based economy change the lives of whites and blacks in all regions of the South? 

Bellringer: Review J65 / A: The slave trade had devastating effects on black families. Marriages and families were torn apart, and parents lived in fear of having their children taken from them to be sold. Despite these challenges, marriages and families worked to stay together. (5 min)

Agenda: 

1. Chapter 12 Review: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rDGFtiCk7Gs (15 min)
2. Journal 66 - Between 1800 and 1860, what changes occurred in the South's plantation crops, labor system, defense of slavery, and elite planter lifestyle? (10 min) 
3. A: Cotton became the principal plantation crop of the South. The South depended on the fortunes of the northern U.S. and Europe, which imported cotton from the South. Slavery spread to the Deep South, through the domestic slave trade. The slavery regime increased in harshness and severity as a result of violence, slave resistance, and justification by white planters. Prestige was maintained through marriages of planters' offspring. 
4. Read: America Compared (p. 387) and answer both questions. (10 min)
5. Have students read the appendix from Douglass's Narrative in which he discusses the relationship between slavery and Christianity: http://www.gutenberg.org/files/23/23-h/23-h.htm#link2H_APPE (10 min)
6. Journal 67 - By 1860, what different groups made up the South's increasingly complex society? How did these groups interact? (rest of class)
7. Home Learning: Thinking Like a Historian 12: due tomorrow, December 13, 2017