Southern Reactions to Abolitionist Literature

Taboo AMERICA Country United States Trump The class will be split in half, and compete against each other! One person from your team will go to the front. They will be given a slip of paper, with a key word/phrase they want you to guess However, they will not be able to say the word/phrase, or any of the other four words on the card Each time can have 1 pass Here is an example!

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Flipped Learning Due in today: Finish PowerPoint on Southern Political Leaders Notes on Gadsden, Cuba and Ostend Manifesto Slave Conspiracy Theory Tension caused by Pierce’s expansionist policies Due in today:

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Add anything you have missed in green pen Gadsden Purchase Cuba Ostend Manifesto 1853, Pierce gave James Gadsden the authority to negotiate the purchase of 650,000km2 of Mexican Territory Gadsden agreed to purchase 140,000km2. Southerners supported the acquisition of the territory because it would the assist the building of a southern railway to the Pacific. Gadsden’s treaty only gained Senate approval after a northern amendment slashed 23,000km2 from the proposed purchase. Pierce tried to acquire Cuba. 1851 an American sponsored filibuster expedition to other throw the Spanish Cuban government failed. 1853-4, Mississippi former Senator John Quitman planned an even greater expedition. Several thousand American volunteers were recruited. July 1853 Pierce met Quitman and unofficially encouraged him in his plans. Pierce’s main problem was northern opinion. They viewed filibustering as another example of southern effort to expand slavery. Pierce forced Quitman to scuttle his expedition. Still hoping to obtain Cuba, Pierce authorised Pierre Soule (US Minister in Spain), to offer $130 million for the Island. Events soon slipped out of Pierce’s control. October 1853-4 US minister to Britain, France, and Spain met in Belgium and issued the Ostend Manifesto. This stated that Cuba ‘is a necessary to the North American Republic as any of its present members’. If Spain refused to sell, the USA would be justified ‘in wrestling it from Spain’. The details of the Ostend Manifesto were leaked and immediately denounced by northern politicians. Pierce repudiated the Manifesto and Soule resigned.

Slave Power Conspiracy What do you think the Slave Power Conspiracy was? TASK: Compare your answer with the person opposite you Slave Power (also called the Slave Power conspiracy and Slaveocracy), was a term first coined by abolitionists in 1839 and was in common use by the 1850s.  It referred to the perceived economic, social and political influence held by slaveholders in the South. It was suggested that Southern slaveholders had a great deal power in Congress and many other federal offices up to and including the presidency. This is in spite of the fact they made up only a small minority of the population of the nation. These few very powerful men used their influence to maintain the institution of slavery. The fear in the North was that the slave power conspiracy intended to not only to spread slavery to the Western territories but to all the states in the North. Pro-Southern Presidents James Polk Franklin Pierce Fugitive Slave Law 1850 Fugitive Slave Law New Territory Texas Mexican Secession Land Gadsden Purchase Attempts to take Cuba

To what extent did the policies of Pierce increase sectional tension To what extent did the policies of Pierce increase sectional tension? Justify your judgement. Not at all Completely

Topic: Reactions to Abolitionist Press & Literature KNOW Literature published in reaction to Abolitionist Literature EXPLAIN The impact of this literature EVALUATE The value of a primary source on this topic

Uncle Tom’s Cabin: Recap Create a mind map with all the information you can remember about Uncle Tom’s Cabin Uncle Tom’s Cabin

Southern Response to Abolitionist Literature Immediately after the publication of Uncle Tom’s Cabin, writers in the South felt the need to respond to Stowe‘s attack on the southern slavery system: the anti-Uncle Tom literature was born. Each table will be given a information about a piece of literature that was written in response to abolitionist literature. Your job is to summarise how the literature responds to abolitionist literature. Now, 2 of your will stay and teach others about your literature. The other 2 will move and learn about other literature that was published.

Source B From the author’s introduction to her novel, ‘The Planter’s Northern Bride’ by Caroline Lee Hentz (1854), in which the author explains her views. This book was a Southern response to ‘Uncle Tom’s Cabin’. It is our honest belief that the negroes of the South are the happiest labouring class on the face of the globe; despite all that can truly be said of their trials and sufferings. The fugitives who flee to the Northern States are no proof against the truth of this statement. They have, most of them, been affected by the influence of others — tempted by promises which are seldom fulfilled. The seeds of discontent and rebellion have taken root in the beautiful groves of the South. With reference to this source and your understanding of the historical context, how valuable is this source to an historian studying the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850?

You are going to be split into new groups. With reference to this source and your understanding of the historical context, how valuable is this source to an historian studying the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850? Source B From the author’s introduction to her novel, ‘The Planter’s Northern Bride’ by Caroline Lee Hentz (1854), in which the author explains her views. This book was a Southern response to ‘Uncle Tom’s Cabin’. It is our honest belief that the negroes of the South are the happiest labouring class on the face of the globe; despite all that can truly be said of their trials and sufferings. The fugitives who flee to the Northern States are no proof against the truth of this statement. They have, most of them, been affected by the influence of others — tempted by promises which are seldom fulfilled. The seeds of discontent and rebellion have taken root in the beautiful groves of the South. You are going to be split into new groups. One group will look at provenance Another will look at tone Two groups will look at argument Put students into Kagan groups

With reference to this source and your understanding of the historical context, how valuable is this source to an historian studying the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850? Source B From the author’s introduction to her novel, ‘The Planter’s Northern Bride’ by Caroline Lee Hentz (1854), in which the author explains her views. This book was a Southern response to ‘Uncle Tom’s Cabin’. It is our honest belief that the negroes of the South are the happiest labouring class on the face of the globe; despite all that can truly be said of their trials and sufferings. The fugitives who flee to the Northern States are no proof against the truth of this statement. They have, most of them, been affected by the influence of others — tempted by promises which are seldom fulfilled. The seeds of discontent and rebellion have taken root in the beautiful groves of the South. Now you are going to go back to your original tables, and swap what you have found. You should (almost) have a complete answer by the time you have swapped what you found. Put students into Kagan groups

Overall, how valuable is this source? With reference to this source and your understanding of the historical context, how valuable is this source to an historian studying the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850? Source B From the author’s introduction to her novel, ‘The Planter’s Northern Bride’ by Caroline Lee Hentz (1854), in which the author explains her views. This book was a Southern response to ‘Uncle Tom’s Cabin’. It is our honest belief that the negroes of the South are the happiest labouring class on the face of the globe; despite all that can truly be said of their trials and sufferings. The fugitives who flee to the Northern States are no proof against the truth of this statement. They have, most of them, been affected by the influence of others — tempted by promises which are seldom fulfilled. The seeds of discontent and rebellion have taken root in the beautiful groves of the South. Now you have your provenance, tone and argument sorted, it is time to focus on a conclusion. Overall, how valuable is this source? Use Kagan to divide people up

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