Expansion and Division AP United States History Unit 4
Slavery and the Making of America Slavery and the Making of America - Episode 3
Early Emancipation (1777-1804)
Missouri Compromise (1820)
Nat Turner’s Rebellion (1831)
Antebellum Southern Populations
Southern Populations
The Antebellum South primarily agrarian little (or slow developing) industry weak financial system inadequate transportation system economic power was shifting from “Upper” South (Chesapeake) to “Lower” South (Deep South) “King Cotton” – 57% of US exports in 1860
Changes in Cotton Production 1820 1860
Sexual slavery
Race “science”
Irish in America
The Ignorant Vote – Honors are Easy (1876)
Germans in America
Community Place type % German Monterey, OH township 83.6 Granville, OH 79.6 Saint Henry, OH village 78.5 Germantown, IL 77.6 Jackson, IN 77.3 Washington, OH 77.2 Saint Rose, IL 77.1 Butler, OH 76.4 Marion, OH 76.3 Jennings, OH 75.6 Coldwater, OH 74.9 Jackson, OH 74.6 Union, OH 74.1 Minster, OH 73.5 Kalida, OH Greensburg, OH 73.4
Know-Nothings and the Washington Monument
American Party Platform severe limits on immigration, especially from Catholic countries restrict political offices to native-born 21-year wait for immigrant citizenship Protestant-only public school teachers restrictions on sale of liquor daily Bible readings in public schools