Apush Chapter 12 Study Notes
Chapter 12 Study Guide
1. Farm Communities- Farming Families that worked together to accomplish goals otherwise not possible alone. (B) They had opportunities to talk about experiences together, and share news, knowledge, etc.
2. The Shakers- Largest of the communal utopian experiments, emphasized agriculture and handcrafts, l most self-sufficient. (B) Failed because they couldn’t have sex, so no future generations to carry on.
3. The Mormons- Most successful communitarian experiment, believed in Joseph Smith. (B) Kicked out of many areas before they settled in Utah, where they still are today.
4. Transcendentalism-The belief that the physical world is secondary to the spiritual realm. (B) Influenced Brook Farm and American Renaissance.
5. The American …show more content…
Flintoff
a) Yeoman who wanted to become rich slaveholding cotton planter, kept diary of his attempts
b) Demonstrated that one could move in and out of slaveholding, he could not achieve cotton planter class
6) Ferdinand L. Steel
a) Young man who tried to enter market economy, failed, and ended up becoming a minister
b) More typical yeoman, never came close to owning a slave and at the mercy of markets
7) landless whites of the antebellum South
a) unskilled laborers who owned no land, worked for others in towns, aspired to save up, buy land, and become yeomen
b) poor and sickly, harsh lifestyle; no wealth because no land nor slaves; victims of market economy dominated by cotton producers with slave labor
free blacks of the antebellum South
a) lived in conditions little better than the slaves; labored alongside slaves for money
b) discriminated and oppressed, some worked to buy their family but could not free them; few became successful enough to do
1. Farm Communities- Farming Families that worked together to accomplish goals otherwise not possible alone. (B) They had opportunities to talk about experiences together, and share news, knowledge, etc.
2. The Shakers- Largest of the communal utopian experiments, emphasized agriculture and handcrafts, l most self-sufficient. (B) Failed because they couldn’t have sex, so no future generations to carry on.
3. The Mormons- Most successful communitarian experiment, believed in Joseph Smith. (B) Kicked out of many areas before they settled in Utah, where they still are today.
4. Transcendentalism-The belief that the physical world is secondary to the spiritual realm. (B) Influenced Brook Farm and American Renaissance.
5. The American …show more content…
Flintoff
a) Yeoman who wanted to become rich slaveholding cotton planter, kept diary of his attempts
b) Demonstrated that one could move in and out of slaveholding, he could not achieve cotton planter class
6) Ferdinand L. Steel
a) Young man who tried to enter market economy, failed, and ended up becoming a minister
b) More typical yeoman, never came close to owning a slave and at the mercy of markets
7) landless whites of the antebellum South
a) unskilled laborers who owned no land, worked for others in towns, aspired to save up, buy land, and become yeomen
b) poor and sickly, harsh lifestyle; no wealth because no land nor slaves; victims of market economy dominated by cotton producers with slave labor
free blacks of the antebellum South
a) lived in conditions little better than the slaves; labored alongside slaves for money
b) discriminated and oppressed, some worked to buy their family but could not free them; few became successful enough to do