1. ** In your notes, in preparation for a video clip about slavery and the cotton industry – “America: The Story of Us – Division,” (7:40 – 16:53) write down the following prompts / questions, leaving spaces in between:
- (1) Impact of cotton gin …
- (2) By 1830, the U.S. is producing ____ % of the world’s cotton and by 1850 ____ %.
- (3) Why do pro-slavery interests want to push slavery westward?
- (4) How does the cotton industry transform and benefit the North?

2. Causes of U.S. Civil War – “LONG TERM”
1 = Ambiguities of U.S. Constitution (1787)
Perpetual Union?
Were states allowed to leave (secede)?
2 = “Tradition of State Sovereignty”
and States’ Rights
Nullification & Secession

3. Causes of U.S. Civil War – “LONG TERM”
3 = Slavery
By 1860, there were 4 million African-American slaves in the South
4 = Second Great Awakening and Rise of Abolitionism in North (1830’s)
“Circuit Riders” …
Appeal to reform society …

4. Second Great Awakening
Second Great Awakening and Rise of Abolitionism in North (1830’s)
Liberator, William Lloyd Garrison
(1831 – 1865)
** Changes Abolition Movement …
Uncle Tom’s Cabin (1852)
Handout Questions:
** (1) Why did the Second Great Awakening lead to a rise in Abolition sentiment in the North?
** (2) Why did Slaveholders not consider themselves egregious sinners?

5. Northwest Ordinance, 1787
Slavery prohibited in “Northwest Territory” as the Ohio River becomes the boundary dividing free and slave states.
New standard for state admission.

6. Nations and Empires that ended slavery through “Compensated Emancipation”
Argentina
Bolivia
Brazil
British Empire
India, East Africa, etc.
Chile
Columbia
Danish Colonies
Netherlands
Ecuador
French Empire
West Africa
Mexico and Central America
Paraguay
Peru
Spanish Empire
Sweden
Uruguay
Venezuela
United States  (Washington D.C.  only)

7. Missouri Compromise (1820)
Maine becomes a
free state
(2) Missouri becomes a slave state
(3) Slavery prohibited north of 36 d. 30’
(4) Slavery allowed into Arkansas Territory south of 36 d. 30’

9. Adding new territory always adds to tension between North and South …
(1) Will this new territory allow slavery? and
(2) How do we maintain the balance between free and slave states?