1. The South and The Slavery Controvery
The Slave System

2. Objectives
Analyze the complex relations among the different elements in Southern society.
Examine the nature of slavery as an economic institution and a social system.

3. Discussion Theme of the chapter?
What was the true nature of slavery according to the historians on page 394?
What main ideas were represented in the Crash Course video?

4. Station 1

5. Station 2

6. Station 3

7. Station 4

8. Station 5

9. The Cotton Kingdom Slavery was becoming a dying business
The South uses Europe’s cotton dependency for future alliances
The plantation system shaped the lives of southern women

10. The Slave System
Over speculation by plantation owners leads to deep debt
One-crop economy was at the mercy of world conditions
“Snobocracy v. White Trash”
Slaveless whites defend the slave system

11. Social Hierarchy Aristocrats Whites (own 1-2 slaves) Slaveless Whites
Mountain Whites
Blacks

12. Slaves Without Masters
Some free blacks owned slaves
Northerners denied blacks rights, widely hated by Irish
Anti-black feeling was stronger in the North

13. Plantation Slavery
Slave increase in Antebellum South was due to reproduction
Many slaves were highly respected, women were prized
Laws that protect slaves were difficult to enforce
Africans combined religions as signals, codes

14. Assignment “Do, Say, Think” Activity Use for the following people…
Booker T. Washington
William Lloyd Garrison
Frederick Douglass

15. The South and The Slavery Controversy
The Abolitionist Movement

16. Bell Ringer
“I am earnest – I will not equivocate- I will not excuse – I will not retreat a single inch – and I will be heard!”
How successful is an abolitionist likely to be in the North and the South?

17. Objective
Explain the responses to slavery.

18. The Burdens of Bondage
Slaves had no change of achieving the “American dream”
Rebellions were never successful
Nat Turner (1831)
Slaves caused trouble without getting punished badly

19. Early Abolitionism
American Colonization Society was developed to transport blacks to Africa
Abolitionism came about as a result of the Second Great Awakening

20. The Liberator
After reading the article, answer the following questions:
For what audience was the document written?
List three things the author said that you think are important.
List two things the document tells you about life in the United States at the time it was written.

21. Radical Abolitionism -*-++-
William Lloyd Garrison publishes The Liberator
David Walker advocates a bloody end to white supremacy
Frederick Douglass looks to politics to solve the slavery problem
Abolitionists supported war for the price for emancipation
Other notable abolitionists…
Sojourner Truth
Martin Delaney
-*-++-

22. The Response to Abolitionism
South
North
Negative response to abolitionist movement
South portrays slavery as a positive good
Compare the treatment of black men in South to North
“Gag resolution” passed to table abolitionist appeals
Speeches provoke violence
Mobs attack popular abolitionists
See page 389 in text.

23. The Liberator
What is the general emotion behind this excerpt?

24. Manifest Destiny and Its Legacy

25. Objectives
Examine the United States reasoning behind manifest destiny.
Identify struggles the United States faced during expansion.

26. John Tyler Accession due to death of Wm. Harrison
Face issues of financial reform, new Bank of the U.S.
Anti-British sentiment is high

27. Independence…maybe Maine Texas Aroostook War Webster-Ashburton Treaty
Forms alliances with foreign nations
Issues for America in the form of…
Monroe Doctrine
Cotton economy
Southern “slavocracy”

28. Mandate for Manifest Destiny
“Young Hickory” in the election of 1844 supports Texas invitation
4 points in 4 years
“Why all of Texas but not all of Oregon?”
Strained relations with Mexico makes California difficult to acquire

29. Consequences to War with Mexico
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
Lee and Grant gain practice for Civil War
Respect from outside countries
Pave the way for Civil War
Wilmot Proviso
Santa Anna’s Revenge

30. Review Questions Chapter 16 & 17

31. Question 1
The North
France
Latin America
Britain

32. Question 2 The sewing machine The mechanical cotton-picker
The cotton gin
The steamboat

33. Question 3 Northern traders and European manufacturers
Southern and northern slave traders
Southern textile industrialists
Midwestern farmers and cattlemen

34. Question 4 Increasing immigration of laborers from Europe
A dependence on the North for trade and manufacturing
A stable system of credit and finance
A relatively equal distribution of property and wealth

35. Question 5 Over a hundred slaves Over fifty slaves
Fewer than ten slaves
Only one slave

36. Question 6 They were bribed by the planter class
They enjoyed the economic benefits of slavery
They felt racially superior to blacks and hoped to be able to buy slaves
They disliked the northern abolitionists

37. Question 7 the illegal importation of slaves from Africa
The re-enslavement of formerly free blacks
Natural reproduction
The incorporation into the United States of new slave territories

38. People, Places and Events
Sir Walter Scott
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Nat Turner
Liberia
Theodore Dwight Weld
Lewis Tappan
Lane Theological Seminary
William Lloyd Garrison
David Walker
Sojourner Truth
Martin Delaney
Frederick Douglass
Virginia legislature
John Quincy Adams
Elijah Lovejoy

39. Question 8 Slavery and expansion Banking and tariff policy
Foreign policy
Agriculture and transportation policy

40. Question 9
American involvement in Canadian rebellions and border disputes
British support form American abolitionists
American anger at British default on canal and railroad loans
American intervention in the British West Indies

41. Question 10 Waging a constant war against Mexico
Refusing to sign treaties with any outside powers
Relying on the military power of the United States
Establishing friendly relations with Britain and other European powers

42. Question 11 The Mexican War The Texan’s willingness to abandon slavery
President Tyler’s interpretation of the election of 1844 as a mandate to acquire Texas
A compromise agreement with Britain

43. Question 12 Americans were destined to uphold democracy and freedom
There would inevitably be a civil war over slavery some time in the future
Mexico was destined to be acquired by the US
God had destined the US to expand across all of North America

44. Question 13
American refusal to pay Mexican claims for damage to its citizens
Mexican refusal to sell California and a dispute over the Texas boundary
Mexican support for the antislavery movement in Texas
American determination to establish democracy in northern Mexico

45. Question 14 The decline of the Democratic party
A sharp revival of the issue of slavery
A large influx of Hispanic immigrants into the southern US
A significant increase in taxes to pay the costs of the war

46. People, Places and Events
John Tyler
Henry Clay
Aroostook War
Daniel Webster
Texas
Oregon
James K. Polk
John C. Fremont
Abraham Lincoln
Rio Grande
Zachary Taylor
Winfield Scott
Santa Anna
Nicholas Trist
David Wilmot