Baltimore Polytechnic Institute November 30, 2012 A/A.P. U.S. History Mr. Green
Objectives: Students will complete a role-play activity in order to evaluate the status of freed African Americans in the Antebellum Period. AP Focus The Second Great Awakening releases a torrent of religious fervor, combining a belief in moral self- improvement and a wish to expand democracy by means of evangelicalism. Religion and Reform are among the new AP themes. From the 1830s to 1850s, the nation experiences a burst of reform activity. Various movements set out to democratize the nation further by combating what they see as institutions and ideas that thwart the expression of democratic values and principles.
CHAPTER THEME The spectacular religious revivals of the Second Great Awakening reversed a trend toward secular rationalism in American culture and helped to fuel a spirit of social reform. In the process, religion was increasingly feminized, while women, in turn, took the lead in movements of reform, including those designed to improve their own condition.
Continue your work on Presidential Election Charts 1836, 1840, 1844, 1848 Decades Chart for the 1840’s due Monday Quiz on Monday covering today and tomorrow
Some southern slaves gained their freedom as a result of A. the prohibition of the Atlantic slave trade after B. purchase by northern abolitionists. C. fleeing to mountain hideaways. D. purchasing their way out of slavery. E. the objection to slaveholding by some white women.
250,000 free blacks in the South ◦ Revolutionary War idealism ◦ Mullatoes – children of white planters and slaves ◦ Purchased freedom from after-hours work Freed slaves had their own land ◦ Had their own slaves in some cases Couldn’t work certain jobs Couldn’t testify against whites in court Could be hijacked back into slavery In the North-250,000 free blacks
4 million slaves in the South in 1860 1808 outlawed slave imports in U.S. 1807 Britain abolished slave trade ◦ British West Africa Squadron captured slave ships and freed captives 3 million Africans shipped to Brazil and West Indies after 1807 Smuggling into the south Slaves as investments
Living conditions varied by plantation Flogging Black belt ◦ South Carolina and Georgia into Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana More stable in deep South Religion
Denied education “Revenge” ◦ Slow labor – fostered white myth of “black laziness” ◦ Took food and other goods their labor helped make ◦ Sabotaged work equipment ◦ Poisoned owner’s food Runaways, rebellions ◦ Nat Turner ◦ Amistad
You will put yourself in the shoes of a freed slave woman and her family.
To what extent were freed slaves “free” in the period ? Answer with respect to TWO of the following: Political Freedom Social Freedom Economic Freedom
Finish reading all of Chapter 15 and begin reading Chapter 16 Work on those ID’s!!!