1. Warm-Up: Dear Tim and Moby,

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6. Unit 5: Life in the New State North Carolina and the United States
After the Revolution

7. Alphabox Topic: ____________
Name:
Alphabox Topic: ____________
Life in the New State
Directions: Insert terms/words that begin with the box letter that relates to _________________.
Life in the New State A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X
Y Z

8. Life in the New State Nullify
Tariff
Secede
Manifest Destiny
Impressments
Abolitionism
make something legally invalid or ineffective
a tax on goods coming in or out of a place
to leave one country in order to form another
country
belief that people in America were part of a
special nation which had a mandate from God
to spread across the continent
forcing or kidnapping American sailors to fight
in the British navy
the stopping of slavery

9. Life in the New State Evangelical Humanitarian Antebellum
of or pertaining to religion or spirituality
a group or person who practices good will and
charity toward others
time period before Civil War

10. North Carolina in the 19th Century (1800s)
Life in the New State
North Carolina in the 19th Century (1800s)
Prosperity
Political Power
U.S. Demands
Technical
Developments
Agricultural
Slave Labor
a successful, flourishing, or thriving condition,
especially in financial respects; good fortune.
Planters and Merchants
More lumber, corn, wheat
Eli Whitney (Georgia) invents cotton gin
Bright Leaf Tobacco
(grown in sandy soil and cured)
Eastern prosperity depended upon it.

11. Eli Whitney: Cotton Gin
1793 Cotton Gin Invented
Before: People separated seeds from cotton fiber
After: It took less time to clean cotton (which meant more cotton to plant and harvest)

12. Life in the New State War of 1812 Britain and France go to war
U.S. Neutral
4th U.S. President
James Madison
NC’s Coast
Francis Scott Key
Britain and France go to war
Until impressments
Britain kidnaps U.S sailors
Declares war against Britain-Indian forces.
Periodically raided,
Militiamen responded and fortified towns,
Britain withdraws.
Composes “Star Spangled Banner”

13. Life in the New State Wake Up NC! The “Rip Van Winkle” State
Wealthy Merchants Planters
Politicians
Small-scale,
Self-sufficient Farmers
The “Rip Van Winkle” State
NC lacked on starting in-state improvements
(eastern NC)
Spent money on their needs
Saw little reason to spend money on rest of state
Happy with that, didn't want to spend money

14. Life in the New State

15. Life in the New State

16. Life in the New State
1,927,098
2,604,999
3,319,128
4,502,845
5,773,534
7,290,477
9,620,662
12,240,293

17. Life in the New State

18. Warm-Up: Dear Tim and Moby,

19. Life in the New State: Ambitious Reforms
Archibald Murphey
Reformers Push
Harder
NC Constitution
Of 1835
Humanitarian,
Believed government should be used to
improve peoples lives,
Proposed navigation, irrigation, transportation,
and education reforms in NC
His proposals were listened to, but ignored.
1830’s- NC need to reform grew strong,
NC losing population,
Gov. Swain holds constitutional convention.
Improved voting rights
(everyone except women and slaves),
Election of officials instead of being chosen,
Western NC had more seats in the legislature.

20. United States Westward Expansion
Life in the New State
United States Westward Expansion

21. Life in the New State: Native Americans
Indian Removal
Act of 1830
NC’s Cherokee
Trail of Tears
1838
Native Americans forced to trade southern
land for western land
Fought removal
Many lived outside tribal lands they had purchased,
NC leaders were not interested in making them move.
17,000 Native Americans and 2,000 slaves from NC, GA, AL, and TN head for Oklahoma.

22. Life in the New State: Native Americans

23. Life in the New State Manifest Destiny
James K. Polk
Westward
Expansion
Belief that US is a nation destined by God to
expand westward.
NC native that becomes President in 1840.
Acquired Texas and all land from Texas to
California from Mexican Territory (via war),
Acquired Oregon Territory from Great Britain
(via treaty).

24. Life in the New State: Abolition
Slavery
Anti-Slavery
Writings
Slave Revolt
NC’s economy depended upon slavery.
David Walker (free black man)
“An appeal to the Colored Citizens of the World”
Harriet Beecher Stowe(preacher’s daughter)
“Uncle Tom’s Cabin” a depiction of the cruel treatment of slaves.
Nat Turner led a group of slaves to revolt in
VA and NC border.

25. Life in the New State: Economics
Economic Divide
Nullification Crisis
Plantation vs. Industry
North- merchants, trade, shipping
South- land, slaves, cotton, plantations
Tariffs (tax on imports) helped Northern states
and hurt the southern states.
Issue of State’s Rights
Could a state nullify a Federal Law that it disagreed with?
South Carolina threatened to secede.

26. Life in the New State: Economics
Green- Free States and territories
Red- Slave States
Orange- Open to Slavery

27. Life in the New State: Violence Erupts
Slavery
John Brown
1850s – Tension increases,
Outbreaks of violence more frequent.
launched a bloody raid on federal
armory in Harper’s Ferry, VA,
plan to start a revolution,
stole guns, gave to slaves, they planned to take over arsenal,
attempt led to the killing of many of Brown’s followers.

28. Life in the New State: Election of 1860
Slavery key component
Republican Party established
Abraham Lincoln nominated (from IL)
Lincoln wins vote of every free state and the election.
No one in NC voted for him because his name wasn’t on the ballot.
NC had mixed emotions over Lincoln’s
election (views on slavery)

29. Life in the New State: Secession Begins
The formal withdraw of the Southern States
from the Union.
NC leaders begin discussion secession.
NC has more plantation owners that small-scale farmers.
SC votes to secede.
Thus the beginning of a divided nation…