1. Antebellum
Sectionalism

2. Standard 8-Indicator 2
8-4.2 Analyze how sectionalism arose from racial tension, including the Denmark Vesey plot, slave codes and the growth of the abolitionist movement.

3. Review from Last Week
Antebellum-Time Period before the War (Referred to as The Time Period Before the Civil War in the US)
Plantation System
Impact of the Cotton Gin on the South & North
Social Classes-Think about it like a pyramid. Slaves were at the bottom (the most amount of people) and Elite were at the top (the least amount of people)

4. What is Sectionalism
Sectionalism-loyalty to a particular region or section of a country instead of to the nation as a whole
Sectionalism-developed in the period after the ratification of the Constitution
Economies, cultures, and political interests of the North and the South became more and more different

5. Origin of Sectional Differences
Started in Colonial Period as a result of differences in geographies
North-developed a trading region of small farms
South-developed the plantation system
After the American Revolution, Northern states passed laws to gradually emancipate (free) their slaves

6. Origin of Sectional Differences (continued)
South-invention of the cotton gin resulted in the South being dependent on slave labor
Southerners-Democratic-Republicans (Thomas Jefferson)
Northerners-Federalists (later Whigs)

7. Increased Sectionalism
Started as a result of the increasing slave population in the South
Black population surpassed the white population by the 1720s in SC.
Growth rate of slaves increased the fear of slave revolts

8. Rebellions Denmark Vesey Video (Learn 360 Website)
As a result of the Denmark Vesey Plot, South Carolinians became even more fearful of their slaves
Virginia-Nat Turner REbellion

9. Slave Codes
Slave codes that had been developed as a result of the Stono rebellion were strengthened to better protect white society
General Assembly passed laws that prohibited slaves from meeting, learning to read and write, and that regulated all aspects of slaves’ lives

10. Result of Rebellions Slave Codes
Southerners-feared if slavery could not expand into the territories
the national gov’t would be in the hands of the North
Slavery would be outlawed
Southerners would have among them a large African- American population that they could not control

11. Abolitionist Movement
Goal: Outlaw slavery throughout the United States
Started in the North-effective in SC by making slave owners hold onto their slaves even more
Abolitionist in SC-popular prior to the Denmark Vesey plot
Famous Sisters in SC: Grimke (Sarah and Angelina) were forced to leave the state or keep silent

12. Abolitionist Movement (continued)
Not popular among most northerners
Grew with the publication of antislavery newspapers such as The Liberator by William Lloyd Garrison
Postmasters in SC-removed mail that they viewed was against slavery
Southerners counter the abolitionist with the theory “Positive Good”-slaves were cared for

13. Impact of Sectionalism
Increased by the changes in the Northern economy and politics
Development of industry in the North attracted European immigrants to jobs there
Growth in Northern population resulted in larger representation in the House of Representatives
Concern over the North’s greater voice in Congress led the South to complete rigorously for the admission of new states as slave states in order to maintain the balance of slave and free states in the Senate.

14. Exit Slip
Students will respond to the following questions: What do I understand most about the lesson? What do I somewhat understand about the lesson? What do I least understand about the lesson?