Grade 8 Lesson at a Glance: Chapter 10, Lesson 3

Houghton Mifflin Social Studies
A More Perfect Union

Lesson at a Glance
Chapter 10, Lesson 3: The Other Souths (pp. 298-305)

The Big Idea
Framework Concept: Diversity Yeoman farmers, mountain settlers, and free blacks made up the other, non-plantation South.

Review with students the groups of white Southerners who did not live on plantations. Discuss the economic differences between the yeoman farmers and the mountain settlers. Remind students that while three-quarters of the Southern farmers did not own slaves, they still supported the system of slavery.

Talk about life in Southern cities. Compare and contrast the opportunities and restrictions of free blacks in Southern cities with the lives of others in those cities.

Lesson Outline
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Check for Understanding

Have each student take on the part of a reporter from the North in 1850, writing a newspaper account of the non-plantation South. Encourage students to clearly describe the people, where they live, how they earn a living, and what they do with their free time.
Have each student draw a picture from the point of view of a free black living in a Southern city, showing at least one way in which he or she is free and one way he or she is not free. When finished, have students share and discuss.

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