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Expansion and Division
AP United States History Unit 4
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Slavery and the Making of America
Slavery and the Making of America - Episode 3
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Early Emancipation (1777-1804)
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Missouri Compromise (1820)
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Nat Turner’s Rebellion (1831)
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Antebellum Southern Populations
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Southern Populations
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The Antebellum South primarily agrarian
little (or slow developing) industry weak financial system inadequate transportation system economic power was shifting from “Upper” South (Chesapeake) to “Lower” South (Deep South) “King Cotton” – 57% of US exports in 1860
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Changes in Cotton Production
1820 1860
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Sexual slavery
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Race “science”
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Irish in America
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The Ignorant Vote – Honors are Easy (1876)
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Germans in America
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Community Place type % German Monterey, OH township 83.6 Granville, OH 79.6 Saint Henry, OH village 78.5 Germantown, IL 77.6 Jackson, IN 77.3 Washington, OH 77.2 Saint Rose, IL 77.1 Butler, OH 76.4 Marion, OH 76.3 Jennings, OH 75.6 Coldwater, OH 74.9 Jackson, OH 74.6 Union, OH 74.1 Minster, OH 73.5 Kalida, OH Greensburg, OH 73.4
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Know-Nothings and the Washington Monument
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American Party Platform
severe limits on immigration, especially from Catholic countries restrict political offices to native-born 21-year wait for immigrant citizenship Protestant-only public school teachers restrictions on sale of liquor daily Bible readings in public schools
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