1. Southern Reactions to Abolitionist Literature

2. Taboo AMERICA Country United States Trump
The class will be split in half, and compete against each other!
One person from your team will go to the front.
They will be given a slip of paper, with a key word/phrase they want you to guess
However, they will not be able to say the word/phrase, or any of the other four words on the card
Each time can have 1 pass
Here is an example!

3. Mark off in your planner

4. Flipped Learning Due in today:
Finish PowerPoint on Southern Political Leaders
Notes on Gadsden, Cuba and Ostend Manifesto
Slave Conspiracy Theory
Tension caused by Pierce’s expansionist policies
Due in today:

5. Mark off in your planner

6. Add anything you have missed in green pen
Gadsden Purchase
Cuba
Ostend Manifesto
1853, Pierce gave James Gadsden the authority to negotiate the purchase of 650,000km2 of Mexican Territory
Gadsden agreed to purchase 140,000km2.
Southerners supported the acquisition of the territory because it would the assist the building of a southern railway to the Pacific.
Gadsden’s treaty only gained Senate approval after a northern amendment slashed 23,000km2 from the proposed purchase.
Pierce tried to acquire Cuba.
1851 an American sponsored filibuster expedition to other throw the Spanish Cuban government failed.
1853-4, Mississippi former Senator John Quitman planned an even greater expedition.
Several thousand American volunteers were recruited.
July 1853 Pierce met Quitman and unofficially encouraged him in his plans.
Pierce’s main problem was northern opinion. They viewed filibustering as another example of southern effort to expand slavery.
Pierce forced Quitman to scuttle his expedition.
Still hoping to obtain Cuba, Pierce authorised Pierre Soule (US Minister in Spain), to offer $130 million for the Island.
Events soon slipped out of Pierce’s control.
October US minister to Britain, France, and Spain met in Belgium and issued the Ostend Manifesto.
This stated that Cuba ‘is a necessary to the North American Republic as any of its present members’. If Spain refused to sell, the USA would be justified ‘in wrestling it from Spain’.
The details of the Ostend Manifesto were leaked and immediately denounced by northern politicians.
Pierce repudiated the Manifesto and Soule resigned.

7. Slave Power Conspiracy
What do you think the Slave Power Conspiracy was?
TASK: Compare your answer with the person opposite you
Slave Power (also called the Slave Power conspiracy and Slaveocracy), was a term first coined by abolitionists in 1839 and was in common use by the 1850s. 
It referred to the perceived economic, social and political influence held by slaveholders in the South. It was suggested that Southern slaveholders had a great deal power in Congress and many other federal offices up to and including the presidency. This is in spite of the fact they made up only a small minority of the population of the nation. These few very powerful men used their influence to maintain the institution of slavery.
The fear in the North was that the slave power conspiracy intended to not only to spread slavery to the Western territories but to all the states in the North.
Pro-Southern Presidents
James Polk
Franklin Pierce
Fugitive Slave Law
1850 Fugitive Slave Law
New Territory
Texas
Mexican Secession Land
Gadsden Purchase
Attempts to take Cuba

8. To what extent did the policies of Pierce increase sectional tension
To what extent did the policies of Pierce increase sectional tension? Justify your judgement.
Not at all
Completely

9. Topic: Reactions to Abolitionist Press & Literature
KNOW
Literature published in reaction to Abolitionist Literature
EXPLAIN
The impact of this literature
EVALUATE
The value of a primary source on this topic

10. Uncle Tom’s Cabin: Recap
Create a mind map with all the information you can remember about Uncle Tom’s Cabin
Uncle Tom’s Cabin

11. Southern Response to Abolitionist Literature
Immediately after the publication of Uncle Tom’s Cabin, writers in the South felt the need to respond to Stowe‘s attack on the southern slavery system: the anti-Uncle Tom literature was born.
Each table will be given a information about a piece of literature that was written in response to abolitionist literature.
Your job is to summarise how the literature responds to abolitionist literature.
Now, 2 of your will stay and teach others about your literature. The other 2 will move and learn about other literature that was published.

12. Source B
From the author’s introduction to her novel, ‘The Planter’s Northern Bride’ by Caroline Lee Hentz (1854), in which the author explains her views. This book was a Southern response to ‘Uncle Tom’s Cabin’.
It is our honest belief that the negroes of the South are the happiest labouring class on the face of the globe; despite all that can truly be said of their trials and sufferings. The fugitives who flee to the Northern States are no proof against the truth of this statement. They have, most of them, been affected by the influence of others — tempted by promises which are seldom fulfilled. The seeds of discontent and rebellion have taken root in the beautiful groves of the South.
With reference to this source and your understanding of the historical context, how valuable is this source to an historian studying the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850?

13. You are going to be split into new groups.
With reference to this source and your understanding of the historical context, how valuable is this source to an historian studying the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850?
Source B
From the author’s introduction to her novel, ‘The Planter’s Northern Bride’ by Caroline Lee Hentz (1854), in which the author explains her views. This book was a Southern response to ‘Uncle Tom’s Cabin’.
It is our honest belief that the negroes of the South are the happiest labouring class on the face of the globe; despite all that can truly be said of their trials and sufferings. The fugitives who flee to the Northern States are no proof against the truth of this statement. They have, most of them, been affected by the influence of others — tempted by promises which are seldom fulfilled. The seeds of discontent and rebellion have taken root in the beautiful groves of the South.
You are going to be split into new groups.
One group will look at provenance
Another will look at tone
Two groups will look at argument
Put students into Kagan groups

14. With reference to this source and your understanding of the historical context, how valuable is this source to an historian studying the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850?
Source B
From the author’s introduction to her novel, ‘The Planter’s Northern Bride’ by Caroline Lee Hentz (1854), in which the author explains her views. This book was a Southern response to ‘Uncle Tom’s Cabin’.
It is our honest belief that the negroes of the South are the happiest labouring class on the face of the globe; despite all that can truly be said of their trials and sufferings. The fugitives who flee to the Northern States are no proof against the truth of this statement. They have, most of them, been affected by the influence of others — tempted by promises which are seldom fulfilled. The seeds of discontent and rebellion have taken root in the beautiful groves of the South.
Now you are going to go back to your original tables, and swap what you have found.
You should (almost) have a complete answer by the time you have swapped what you found.
Put students into Kagan groups

15. Overall, how valuable is this source?
With reference to this source and your understanding of the historical context, how valuable is this source to an historian studying the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850?
Source B
From the author’s introduction to her novel, ‘The Planter’s Northern Bride’ by Caroline Lee Hentz (1854), in which the author explains her views. This book was a Southern response to ‘Uncle Tom’s Cabin’.
It is our honest belief that the negroes of the South are the happiest labouring class on the face of the globe; despite all that can truly be said of their trials and sufferings. The fugitives who flee to the Northern States are no proof against the truth of this statement. They have, most of them, been affected by the influence of others — tempted by promises which are seldom fulfilled. The seeds of discontent and rebellion have taken root in the beautiful groves of the South.
Now you have your provenance, tone and argument sorted, it is time to focus on a conclusion.
Overall, how valuable is this source?
Use Kagan to divide people up

16. Flipped Learning Due in after half term:
Complete the following on your revision grid as GB3 revision
America C.1845
AND
Attempt to maintain the Union
Due in after half term:

17. John Calhoun
Southern
Angry
Flannels
Missouri Compromise
Henry Clay
Maine
Line
Uncle Tom’s Cabin
Book
Slave
Dies
Mexican War
Mexico
Rio Grande
Texas
Nullification
Calhoun
Ban
South Carolina
Franklin Pierce
President
1852
Democrat
2nd Great Awakening
Religion
Christianity
New
Congress
Government
Legislature
Laws

18. Wilmot
Proviso
Mexican War
Slavery
1850
Compromise
Year
Debates
Fugitive
Slave
Run
North
Garrison
Abolitionist
Liberator
Man
Supreme Court
Laws
Government
Constitution
Constitution
Document
Laws
Written
Democrats
Political
Party
Obama
Whigs
Political
Party
Hair

19. Guadalupe Hidalgo
Treaty
Mexico
War
Abolitionist
Slavery
Hate
Extreme
Manifest Destiney
West
God
Expand
Lincoln
Assassinated
President
Hat