8.7 Students analyze the divergent paths of the American people in the South from 1800 to the mid-1800s and the challenges they faced.

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.

8.7.2 -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and identify the strategies that were tried to both overturn and preserve it (e.g., through the writings and historical documents on Nat Turner, Denmark Vesey).

8.7.3 - Examine the characteristics of white Southern society and how the physical environment influenced events and conditions prior to the Civil War.

8.7.4 - Compare the lives of and opportunities for free blacks in the North with those of free blacks in the South.


Resources Available for Standard 8.7
3793Lomax III & IV: Folk Songs
3794Lomax V & VI:Folk Songs
966Afro-American Folktales: Stories From Black Traditions in the New World Abrahams, R. D. editor398
781The Slave Community: Plantation Life in the Antebellum South Blassingame, J. W.973
785The Slave Community Blassingame, J. W.973
3759Sambo: The rise and demise of an American jester Boskin, Joseph
3620William Styron's Nat Turner Clarke, John H.973.5
903The Life and Times of Frederick Douglass Douglass, F.973.7 Biography
3650Narrative of the Life of Fredrick Douglass Douglass, Frederick973.5 Biography
814Farm to Factory: Womenıs Letters, 1830-1860 Dublin, T. editor973.5
1212Walking the Trail: One Manıs Journey along the Cherokee Trail of Tears Ellis, J.973.5
3628Slavery in the New World: A reader in comparative history Foner, Laura & Genovese, Eugene970
3656The World the Slaveholders Made Genovese, Eugene D.973.7
3635Eli Whitney and the Birth of American Technology Green, Constance M.973.4 Biography
813Slavery and the Numbers Game: A Critique of Time on the Cross Gutman, H. G.973.6
3636States' Rights and Indian Removal: The Cherokee Nation v. The State of Georgia Guttman, Allen & Halsey, Van973.5
969The People Could Fly: American Black Folktales Hamiton, V.398
894Sumter: The First Day of the Civil War Hendrickson, R.973.7
885Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl Jacobs, H.973.5 Fiction
788Journal of a Residence on a Georgian Plantation in 1838-1839 Kemble, F. A.973.5 Biography
1194Mankiller: A Chief and Her People Mankiller, W.973.004 Biography
918Escape From Slavery: The Boyhood of Frederick Douglass in his Own Words McCurdy, M. editor973.7 Biography
3621Slavery Defended: the views of the old South McKitrick, Eric L.973.7
3658The Slave States Before the Civil War Olmsted, Frederick Law973.6
3630Life & Labor in the Old South Phillips, Urich B.973
924Nobody Knows: The Africans Reiff, T.973
3645Rehearsal for Reconstruction: The Port Royal Experiment Rose, Willie Lee973.7
887The Adventures of High John the Conqueror Sanfield, S.973.6 Fiction
3653A Basic History of the Old South Stephenson, Wendell Holmes973
970Children of Promise: African-American Literature and Art for Young People Sullivan, C. editor973
831Iron Cages: Race and Culture in 19th-Century America Takaki, R.973
798American Reformers 1815-1860 Walters, R. G.973.5
978Andrew Jackson vs. Henry Clay: Democracy and Development in Antebellum America Watson, H. L.973.6
3652Ante Bellum Wish, Harvey973.6
4040Gil Gorospe ggorospe@telis.orgEich Intermediate School, Roseville
4071Tim Peppel tpepnotes@yahoo.comWinston Churchill Middle School
23The Ghost Dance: Indian Removal After Civil War Jason, Alli973.8
46This Will Never be Submitted to ... Without a Civil War: Congress Debates Slavery Laichas and Ingersoll973.4
3605The Antebellum Women's Movement, 1820-1860 Leighow, Sterner-Hine973.6
30Slavery in the 19th Century Pearson and Robertson973.5
3953Slavery in the 19th Century Pearson and Robertson973.5
4019Slavery in the 19th Century: Unit of Study for 5-8 Pearson, Jim & Robertson, John973.5
4064Karen Halttunen, PhD. klhalttunen@ucdavis.edu
4024Civil War Era Slides Deyle, Steve


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