16.3 Benchmark Review

1. 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.

2. Who, what, where, when, why, how • Plantation South • Cotton South • Cotton Gin

3. 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and identify the strategies that were tried to both overturn and preserve it (e.g., through the writing and historical document on Nat Turner, Denmark Vesey).

4. Who, what, where, when, why, and how • Slavery in the Southern States • Slave Codes • Abolition • Nat Turner • Denmark Vesey

5. 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.)

6. 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

7. 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).

8. 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