1. Essential Question:
How did the issue of slavery contribute to sectionalism in the late antebellum era?
CPUSH Agenda for Unit 5.3:
Clicker Questions
“Sectionalism and Slavery” activity
Today’s HW: 10.1
Unit 5 Test: Wednesday, October 17
In-Class Essay: Thursday, October 18

2. By 1840, abolitionism was the most important of the antebellum social reforms
Arguments over slavery increased sectional tensions between North and South

3. What were the arguments for and against slavery?
Working in groups, read information about six important people who took a stand for or against slavery
In your notes, write their specific views on slavery and the actions they took to end or defend slavery
The abolitionists
Pro Slavery

4. William Lloyd Garrison
Most famous abolitionist
Published The Liberator; formed American Anti-Slavery Society
Immediate end to slavery
Burned Constitution; Argued for Northern secession

5. Frederick Douglass Abolitionist, former slave
“Slavery is wicked, a sin, violates liberty”
Helped runaway slaves
Published North Star
Advised President Lincoln

6. Grimke Sisters Southern women who moved North to become abolitionists
Slavery is morally wrong
First women to speak to audiences with men (unladylike)
Threatened with jail if ever returned to South

7. Hinton Helper White southerner who opposed slavery
Wrote Impending Crisis
Slavery is bad because it kept most whites poor & hurt the South
Racist against blacks; argued for segregation

8. John C. Calhoun Supporter of slavery; “positive good” theory
States, not the national government, should decide if slavery should exist
Southern “way of life”
States should defy anti-slavery laws

9. George Fitzhugh Southern aristocrat who supported slavery
Slaves are “inferior”
Slavery is better than Northern/British cruelty towards factory workers
Slavers were “better off” in America than Africa

10. The abolitionists Pro Slavery
“Who said it?” Quotes
Examine each of the following historical quotations and determine which of the six people most likely said it
The abolitionists
Pro Slavery

11. #1 On this subject [of slavery], I do not wish to think, or speak, or write, with moderation. No! no! Tell a man whose house is on fire, to give a moderate alarm; tell him to moderately rescue his wife from the hand of the ravisher; tell the mother to gradually extricate her babe from the fire into which it has fallen; -- but urge me not to use moderation in a cause like the present. I am in earnest -- I will not equivocate -- I will not excuse -- I will not retreat a single inch -- AND I WILL BE HEARD.
William Lloyd Garrison

12. #2 What, to the American slave, is your 4th of July
#2 What, to the American slave, is your 4th of July? I answer; a day that reveals to him, more than all other days in the year, the gross injustice and cruelty to which he is the constant victim. To him, your celebration is a sham; There is not a nation on the earth guilty of practices more shocking and bloody than are the people of the United States, at this very hour.
Frederick Douglass

13. # The negro slaves of the South are the happiest, and, in some sense, the freest people in the world. The children and the aged and infirm work not at all, and yet have all the comforts and necessaries of life provided for them. They enjoy liberty, because they are oppressed neither by care nor labor. The women do little hard work, and are protected from the despotism of their husbands by their masters. The negro men and stout boys work, on the average, in good weather, not more than nine hours a day.
George Fitzhugh

14. “Growth of Abolition” Conversations
For each of the six events highlighted on the timeline, read the background information and create a specific conversation between the two people from their perspective on the issue of slavery
The abolitionists
Pro Slavery