1. May 1, 2013 STARTER
Henry David Thoreau wrote that if a law “requires you to be the agent (cause)of injustice to another then I say, break the law.”
What do you think he meant by this quote?

2. North vs. South

3. Geography North South Rocky Soil Many inland rivers Great ports
Subsistence farming
Many inland rivers
Great ports
Lead to large population
Short growing season
One crop
Fertile soil
Led to Big Farming
Few inland rivers
Shallow ports
Long growing season
Two/Three crops

4. Agriculture North South Subsistence Farming Labor
Paid labor raises prices and low profit
Plantation System Farming
LARGE CASH CROPS!
Cotton is King!
Fertile Soil
Large Profit
Hard to produce
Picking, cleaning…
Also had rice
Sugar cane
Wheat
Vegetables
Labor
FREE labor keeps price down and large profit.

5. Industry North South Exploding Industry
Industrial Revolution made use of rivers
Immigration
Immigrants = cheap labor
No slavery
Material sent from the South
Stagnate Industry due to…
Lack of roads
Lack of rivers (no power)
Materials sent to the North.

6. Eli Whitney Born in the North Built the Cotton Gin in 1793
A machine which made it easier to clean cotton once it had been picked.
ONE slave could do the work of TEN slaves
What do the other NINE slaves do?

7. Slavery by the numbers…
The Cotton Gin Changed EVERYTHING…
Pre-Cotton Gin 659,427
,500,000 slaves in the south
,000,000 slaves in the south
Cotton production as percentage of U.S exports
Pre-Gin 7.1% % % %
32% of the South
were slaves
17% were
slave owners

8. WHAT IS SECTIONALISM?

9. Loyalty to a specific region
Sectionalism:
Loyalty to a specific region

10. Balance of Power 1819 = 11 states with slavery
11 states without slavery
How many senators does each state have?
Answer: 2 per state
22 senators with slavery, 22 senators without slavery
California wants to become a State

11. What if California joins as a…
Slave state?
Slave states would have 24 votes in the Senate and free states would only have 22 votes.
Slave states can pass laws to ensure/force slavery's existence
Make the North return runaway slaves
Free State?
Free states would have 24 votes in the Senate and slave states only would have 22 votes.
Free states can pass laws to limit or abolish slavery

12. Compromise of 1850
With the person next to you read about the Compromise of 1850 on Page 451 in your textbook
You will have five minutes to read and answer two questions:
1. What are two gains the North gets from this Compromise? What about the South?
2. What was the importance of the Compromise of 1850?

13. Fugitive Slave Act
Now read page 453 by yourself, which is about the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 (a portion of the Compromise of 1850). Then answer the last three questions on your worksheet.
Once you are finished please color in the map of the Compromise of Use page 454 as a guideline for the map, and INCLUDE A KEY!
*Make sure you are looking at the map of the Compromise of 1850, NOT the Kansas-Nebraska Act!!*