1. Antebellum South
AP US History

2. The Southern Economy

3. Southern Society-Circa 1850
“Slavocracy” [plantation owners]
6,000,000
The“Plain Folk” [white yeoman farmers]
Freemen
250,000
Slaves 3,200,000
Total US Population  23,000,000 [9,250,000 in the South = 40%]

4. Southern Population

5. Southern Agriculture

6. Georgia Plantation

7. Ledger of John White
Matilda Selby, 9, $ sold to Mr. Covington, St. Louis, $425.00
Brooks Selby, 19, $ Left at Home – Crazy
Fred McAfee, 22, $ Sold to Pepidal, Donaldsonville, $
Howard Barnett, 25, $ Ranaway. Sold out of jail, $540.00
Harriett Barnett, 17, $ Sold to Davenport and Jones, Lafourche, $900.00

8. Reliance on Cotton-changes on production
1820
1860

9. Cotton Exports

10. Resistance

11. Slave Resistance Refusal to work hard. Isolated acts of sabotage.
Escape via the Underground
Railroad.

12. Quilt Patterns=Secret Messages
The Monkey Wrench pattern, on the left, alerted escapees to gather up tools and prepare to flee; the Drunkard Path design, on the right, warned escapees not to follow a straight route.

13. Rebellion

14. Rebellion
Nat Turner, 1831
Gabriel Prosser, 1800
1822

15. Growing concerns over Slavery

16. Distribution of Slave Labor

17. Slave Owning Population-Circa 1850

18. Early Emancipation in the North

19. Laws on Slavery
U. S. Constitution: * 3/5s compromise [I.2] * fugitive slave clause [IV.2]
1793  Fugitive Slave Act.
1850  stronger Fugitive Slave Act.

20. Slavery in the South-Unusual?
1780s: 1st antislavery society created in Philadelphia.
By 1804: slavery eliminated from last northern state.
1807: the legal termination of the slave trade, enforced by the Royal Navy.
1820s: many newly independent Republics of Central & So. America declared their slaves free.
1833: slavery abolished throughout the British Empire.
1844: slavery abolished in the Fr. colonies.
1861: the serfs of Russia were emancipated

21. Missouri Compromise
Go over it on the board-how does this create problems, what are the the issues with this plan?

22. Compromise of 1850
Introduced by Henry Clay

23. Harriet Beecher Stowe 1811-1896
Author of Uncle Tom’s Cabin, 1852
Sold 300,000 its first year
1 million copies in a decade
Lincoln -“So this is the lady who started this great war”

24. Presidential Election 1852
Franklin Pierce
Democrat
General Winfield Scott
Whig
John Parker Hale
Free-Soil Party

25. Results

26. Kansas-Nebraska Act,1854

27. Border “Ruffians” (pro-slavery Missourians)
Bleeding Kansas
Border “Ruffians” (pro-slavery Missourians)

28. Another Fight in Congress-”The Crime Against Congress
Sen. Charles Sumner (R-MA)
Congr. Preston Brooks (D-SC)

29. Birth of Republican Party
Northern Whigs
Northern Democrats.
Free-Soilers.
Know-Nothings.
Other miscellaneous opponents of the Kansas-Nebraska Act.

30. Presidential Election, 1856

31. Dred Scott Decision
Dred Scott v Sanford, 1857

32. Harper’s Ferry, 1859

33. Lincoln-Douglas Debates
Illinois Senate race 1858
A House divided against itself, cannot stand.
Popular Sovereignty

34. The Final Nail
Election of 1860

35. The Candidates Abraham Lincoln Republican John Bell
Constitutional Union
Stephen Douglass
Northern Democrat
Stephen C. Breckenridge
Southern Democrat

36. The Republican Platform
Non-extension of slavery [for the Free-Soilers.]
Protective tariff [for the No. Industrialists].
No abridgment of rights for immigrants [a disappointment for the “Know-Nothings”].
Government aid to build a Pacific RR [for the Northwest].
Internal improvements [for the West] at federal expense.
Free homesteads for the public domain [for farmers].
Why would southerners oppose this platform?

37. RESULTS

38. A nation coming Apart?
Discuss the cartoon. Who is presented and what is it symbolizing?

39. One Last Attempt to Preserve the Union
Crittenden Compromise: Senator John J. Crittenden (Know-Nothing-KY)
Corwin Compromise
Senator Thomas Corwin
(Ohio)

40. Secession! SC, Dec 20, 1860

41. Fort Sumter: April 12, 1861