16.3 Benchmark Review

• 8.7.1 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.

Who, what, where, when, why, how

• Plantation South• Cotton South• Cotton Gin

• 8.7.2 Trace the origins and the development of slavery; its effects on black Americans and on the Southern region’s political, social, religious, economic, and cultural development; and identify the strategies that were tried to both overturn and preserve it (e.g., through the writing and historical document on Nat Turner, Denmark Vesey).

Who, what, where, when, why, and how

• Slavery in the Southern States• Slave Codes• Abolition• Nat Turner• Denmark Vesey

• 8.6.6 Examine the women’s suffrage movement (e.g., biographies, writing, and speeches of Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Margaret Fuller, Lucretia Mott, and Susan B. Anthony.)

Who, what, where, when, why, how Women’s Suffrage

(1800’s)

Sojourner Truth

Lucretia Mott

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Seneca Falls Convention

Declaration of Sentiments

Women’s Right Movement

Susan B. Anthony

National Women’s Suffrage Association

Margaret Fuller

• 8.6.7 Identify common themes in American art as well as transcendentalism and individualism (e.g., writing about and by Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, Herman Melville, Louisa May Alcott, Nathanial Hawthorne, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow).

Who, what, where, when, why, how Washington Irving

James Fenimore Cooper

Individualism

Transcendentalism

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Henry David Thoreau

Civil Disobedience

Herman Melville

Nathanial Hawthorne

Louisa May Alcott

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow