1. ** In your notes, in preparation for a video clip about slavery and the cotton industry – “America: The Story of Us – Division,” (7:40 – 16:53) write down the following prompts / questions, leaving spaces in between:
- (1) Impact of cotton gin …
- (2) By 1830, the U.S. is producing ____ % of the world’s cotton and by 1850 ____ %.
- (3) Why do pro-slavery interests want to push slavery westward?
- (4) How does the cotton industry transform and benefit the North?

2. What were the causes of the U.S. Civil War?
Cause of the Civil War
What were the causes of the U.S. Civil War?
(Discuss w/ a partner next to you)

3. Causes of U.S. Civil War – “LONG TERM”
1 = Slavery
By 1860, there were 4 million African-American slaves in the South
2 = Cotton Gin (1793) by Eli Whitney
3 = Second Great Awakening and Rise of Abolitionism in North (1830’s)
“Circuit Riders” …
Appeal to reform society …

4. Second Great Awakening
Second Great Awakening and Rise of Abolitionism in North (1830’s)
Liberator, William Lloyd Garrison
(1831 – 1865)
** Changes Abolition Movement …
Uncle Tom’s Cabin (1852)
Handout Questions:
** (1) Why did the Second Great Awakening lead to a rise in Abolition sentiment in the North?
** (2) Why did Slaveholders not consider themselves egregious sinners?

5. Causes of U.S. Civil War – “LONG TERM”
4 = “Slave Power” Influence
Only 1/3 of Southerners
owned slaves
Thomas Jefferson,
John C. Calhoun,