REVIEW & RELATE

CHAPTER 10 REVIEW

  1. What role did the planter elite play in southern society and politics?

  2. What were the consequences of the dominant position of slave-based plantation agriculture for the southern economy?

  3. How did enslaved African Americans create ties of family, community, and culture?

  4. How did enslaved African Americans resist efforts to control and exploit their labor?

  5. What groups made up white southern society? How did their interests overlap or diverge?

  6. How and why did the planter elite seek to reinforce white solidarity?

  7. How did westward expansion affect white Southerners, white Northerners, enslaved blacks, and American Indians in the 1830s and 1840s?

  8. What economic and political developments led to a Whig victory in the election of 1840?

  9. How did the battle over Texas affect relations among Indian nations, among white Americans, and between Indians and whites?

  10. How did the Mexican-American War reshape national politics and intensify debates over slavery?