What were the different groups that comprised black society?

10 Short Answer Questions: American History

Ch. 11, 12 and 13 “The South, Slavery, and King
Cotton” and “Religion, Romanticism, and Reform, and Western Expansion
History Textbook used:
Tindall, George
Brown, and David Emory Shi. America: A Narrative History. Brief
Eleventh
Edition Vol. 1. New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2019.

In your own words answer the following questions. (2-5
Sentences each)
cite sources using Chicago/Turabian footnotes

Describe the economic, social, and cultural
diversity of the Old South.
Trace the development of black society in the Old
South.
What were the different groups that comprised black
society? What distinguished them from each other and what tied them
together?
What made ideas about race so powerful that poor
whites in the Old South seemingly ignored their own economic interests to
support slavery and the disproportionate benefits it provided the
relatively small number of planter elite?
What was the most significant reform movement in the
United States during the first half of the nineteenth century? Why?
What were
some motivations behind the social reform movements and utopian
communities?
Ch.
13 “Western Expansion”
Explain the phrase “manifest destiny.”
What factors
were most important in drawing Americans to the West, both mentally and
physically?
Discuss the causes and consequences of the
Mexican-American War.
How did U.S. domestic politics influence American
foreign relations with Mexico and Britain in the 1840s?

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