1. Grab a Civil War Packet & Civil War Map Activities Packet & Prepare fo’ Notes

2. Packet Page Numbering Number the Pages Start with 1 Include First (front) Page and all Blank Pages

4. The Slave Power of the South What role did the South play in American politics up to the Civil War? How were they so dominant?

5. Who Were the Slave Power of the South? Open Civil War Packet to Page 7 & 8 Looking at the maps, what do you see in regards to population, slaves and proportion of slave owners

6. The Southern Slave Power If you own 5 or more slaves, how much land might you own? What if you owned 100? 500 or more?

7. The Southern Slave Power The wealthy elite of the South Large Plantation owners Also ran the governments

8. What is Secession? Open packet to page 12 Secede - to withdraw formally from an alliance, federation, or association, as from a political union, a religious organization, etc.

9. Was it Legal? Open Text Book to page 233 The Constitution Scan Article VII Is there any way out? “These United States”

10. Why did the South Secede?

12. Who Seceded? The Southern Slave Power Not the poor whites, not enslaved African Americans, not free African Americans How do you think they persuaded the average Southerner to support secession?

13. Secession Timeline Open packet to page 12

14. South Carolina Secedes 1st South Carolina Secession Ordinance AN ORDINANCE to dissolve the union between the State of South Carolina and other States united with her under the compact entitled "The Constitution of the United States of America.“ We, the people of the State of South Carolina, in convention assembled, do declare and ordain, and it is hereby declared and ordained, That the ordinance adopted by us in convention on the twenty-third day of May, in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and eighty-eight, whereby the Constitution of the United States of America was ratified, and also all acts and parts of acts of the General Assembly of this State ratifying amendments of the said Constitution, are hereby repealed; and that the union now subsisting between South Carolina and other States, under the name of the "United States of America," is hereby dissolved. Done at Charleston the twentieth day of December, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty.

15. Map Activity Complete Civil War Map Activity # 1 in the Civil War Map Activity Packet

17. Homework In the Back of Packet Number the 10 Primary Source (Eyewitness to History) Articles 1 – 11 Read Article Number 1 Be Sure to check out page 13 in your packet Create a visual of what you read.