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Chapter Timeline

CHAPTER REVIEW

TIMELINEAsk yourself why this chapter begins and ends with these dates and then identify the links among related events.
1810s

  • Africans from Congo region influence black culture for decades

  • Natural increase produces surplus of slaves in Old South

  • Domestic slave trade expands, disrupting black family life
1812

  • Louisiana becomes a state, and its sugar output increases
1817

  • Mississippi becomes a state; Alabama follows (1819)
1820s

  • Free black population increases in North and South

  • Entrepreneurial planters in Cotton South turn to gang labor

  • Southern Methodists and Baptists become socially conservative

  • African Americans increasingly adopt Christian beliefs
1830s

  • Gentry in Old South adopt paternalistic ideology and argue that slavery is a “positive good”

  • Boom in cotton production

  • Percentage of slave-owning white families falls

  • Yeomen farm families retreat to hill country

  • Lawyers become influential in southern politics
1840s

  • Southern Whigs advocate economic diversification

  • Gradual emancipation completed in North
1850s

  • Cotton prices and production increase

  • Slave prices rise

  • Southern states subsidize railroads, but industry remains limited

Question

KEY TURNING POINTS: Using the five entries in the timeline for the 1830s, write an essay that describes the economy, society, and polity of the South in that decade and that analyzes the significance of the decade’s developments in the evolution of the region between 1800 and 1860.