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| CHAPTER 15 | THE OLD SOUTH | OVERVIEW |
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CHAPTER TIMELINE |
| 1800 |
Gabriel plot |
| 1808 |
American slave trade outlawed |
| 1817 |
American Colonization Society formed |
| 1822 |
Denmark Vesey plot |
| 1831 |
Nat Turner insurrection |
| 1831 |
The Liberator first published |
| 1832 |
New England Anti-Slavery Society started |
| 1833 |
American Anti-Slavery Society begun |
| 1837 |
Elijah P. Lovejoy killed |
| 1840 |
American and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society established |
| 1840 |
Liberty party begun |
| 1845 |
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass published |
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CHAPTER OBJECTIVES |
After you finish reading and studying this chapter, you should be able to: |
- Describe the conditions that helped shape the antebellum South.
- Separate reality from myth in descriptions of the antebellum South.
- Analyze and explain the economic development of the antebellum South.
- Describe and account for the different levels of white, black, and multiracial
society in the antebellum South.
- Trace the development of the antislavery movement of the United States up to
the early 1840s.
- Explain the major reactions to antislavery agitation.
- Explain some of the significant defenses of slavery developed in the South.
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