1. Bell Ringer! Record and think about the following equation: ENVIRONMENT + ADAPTATION = CULTURE  What does this mean?  How does WHERE someone live effect HOW they live?  Why do cultural differences exist even within the same country?  Is this true today?

3. What contributes to regional differences?  Environment – climate, rainfall, physical landscape  Economy – What kinds of goods are produced? How money is made?  Demographics – Who lives there? White/Black/Slave/Free

4. Sectionalism  Loyalty to one’s region or “section” of the country rather than the nation as a whole  Different regions or sections of the country will want the federal government to focus on different things

5. -Regional Differences-  North – (Pennsylvania, New Jersey, New York, Connecticut, Rhode Island, Massachusetts, Vermont, Maine)  Desire laws to build industry and manufacturing  Most states passing laws that end slavery by early 1800s  South  Chesapeake – (Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, parts of northern N. Carolina)  Low Country – lower N. Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia  Mississippi Delta – Mississippi, Louisiana, Alabama  Desire laws to protect slavery and retrieve runaways  Western territories  Desire laws to protect against Native American attacks  Slavery hotly debated – some want it allowed in new lands, others do not

6. Why does region matter when studying slavery?

8. North

9. North – PA, NJ, NY, CT, RI, MA, VT, NH, ME  Warm summers, snowy winters, rocky soil  Textile production, iron and steel, mining, lumber  More people moving to cities, centers of industry and manufacturing  Slavery decreasing greatly by 1860  NJ reports 18 slaves on eve of Civil War

10. South – Chesapeake

11. Chesapeake - Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, parts of northern N. Carolina  Tidewater (coastal areas) – large plantations  Smaller farms inland (piedmont)  Main cash crop = Tobacco  By 1860 69% white, 31% black  About 60% of black population living in slavery

13. South – Low Country

14. Low Country  Hot humid climate, long growing season  Indigo, cotton, rice economy  Land similar to West Africa  absentee landowners (slaves left alone)  Better ability to preserve African culture  Close contact with Native Americans  By 1860 54% white, 46% black  About 96% of black population living as slaves

15. South – Mississippi Delta

16. Mississippi Delta – Mississippi, Louisiana, Alabama  Hot humid climate, long growing season  Plantation economy cotton, sugar cane and rice – sugar cultivation brutal labor  Close contact with Native Americans  Caribbean connection (culture, language)  By 1860 50% white, 50% black  About 98% of black population living in slavery

17. Think about…  If you had to live in slavery, would you rather be a slave in the North or the South? Why?  Is it better to be close to your master or farther away?  Where did slaves have the most “freedom”? Where were they able to bond most with family?

18. For Monday : Finish map!