1. Tuesday, December 8 th Agenda Agenda: -Review Notes -Slave Perspectives HMWK: Read pages 220 – 227 -YES THERE WILL BE A READING CHECK Warm Up Warm Up: Get out one sheet of paper. Number 1 – 8. Put your name in the top right corner with today’s date. Title your paper- Reading Check pgs. 215-219

2. Vocabulary Secession- the act of pulling out of the union Nullification- to declare invalid Secede- withdrawing for the Union State’s rights- the belief that a state’s interests should take precedence over the interests of the national government. Popular sovereignty – the ability of the residents of an area to decide upon an issue, such as whether they allow slavery.

3. Vocabulary Free soilers- those people in the Kansas and Nebraska territories who opposed slavery Abolitionists- the people who wanted to do away with slavery in the 1800’s Sectionalist- the belief by the people in a given region or area that their ideas and interests are better and more important that those of another region or area Yeoman Farmer-an independent farmer who often lived from season to season

4. Class Structure Antebellum Era

5. Class Structure North- class was based on wealth allowing people to move upward from one class to another South- class was based wealth and being born into the “right family” and was difficult to move upward

6. Planters Large: owned 50 slaves and more than 1,000 acres. Less than 1% of the population. Lavish lifestyle and homes. Small: owned 20 – 49 slaves and 100- 1,000 acres. 3% of the population Controlled most of the Southern wealth and political leaders

7. Farmers with slaves Owned fewer than 20 slaves. Most owned 5 or fewer. 20% of the population Comfortable homes- Middle Class

8. Merchants and “People of Letters” Lived in towns or cities Cotton brokers, merchants, teachers, doctors, ministers, newspaper publishers, and lawyers 1- 2 percent of the population Middle Class

9. Yeoman Farmers and Poor Whites Made up 75% of the population Famers/subsistence farmers Lived in shacks or cabins Work sun up to sun down including children “White Trash”- moved around in search of jobs or beggars

10. Free Blacks Farmers, day laborers, artisans, or tenant farmers A few owned slaves and plantations 6% of the population Limited personal freedoms (education, socially, travel)

11. Slaves 11.5% lived in Georgia (4 million country wide) Skin color determined class structure among the slaves