Ch+13+The+South

=The Nation Expands Unit = Chapters 12-15 =The South= Chapter 13 sections: Section 1 Growth of the Cotton Industry Section 2 The Slave System

Activities:
Vocabulary list The Nation Expands Timeline Notes: covers chapters 12, 13, 14

Videos:
[|Johnny Reb --song by Johnny Horton to the last living veteran of the South] [|The Presidents of the United States, Episode 3 1849-1865] ---Zachary Taylor (1849-50), Millard Fillmore (1850-53), Franklin Pierce (1853-57), James Buchanan (1857-61), ---Abraham Lincoln (1861-65) [|Frederick Douglass]

Web sites:
[|Cotton in a Global Economy (1800-1860)] (Mississippi) [|Growth of the Cotton Insdustry] [|Cotton and African American Life] [|How Did Cotton Become King?] [|Emerson and Thoreau] [|American History: How did plantation crops and slavery change between 1899 and 1860?] [|How Slavery Built a World Economy] [|Slave Life and Slave Codes] US History.org with many other related topics in left column [|Pre-Civil War Africa-American Slavery (Library of Congress)] with many other related links [|Social Studies Help Center Site Map: scroll down through the topics to the one you want]

Music: [|In Them Old Cotton Fields Back Home - Johnny Cash] [|Credence Clearwater Revival: Cotton Fields] [|Nobody Knows The Trouble I've Seen-Southern Spiritual instrumental about life in the South] [|Sometimes I Feel Like A Motherless Child] Sung by the son of a slave, Paul Robeson [|Nobody Knows the trouble I've Seen: by Paul Robeson]


 * The Nation Expands Unit ** test will happen after chapters 12-14 are covered. Use the chapter Power Point presentations to cover all the basics.