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The South
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Standards & Essential Question The Student will explain the relationship between growing north-south divisions & western expansion How did slavery become a significant issue in American politics? How did the 2 nd Great Awakening affect this growing dissention? What were the outcomes of slave rebellions?
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Take Five… What were the differences between Northern labor (immigrants) and Southern labor (slaves)?
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The Practice of Slavery Northern point of view Manumission Southern point of view Backbone of agriculture Protecting blacks from poor whites Mason-Dixon line Colonization movement American Colonization Society Sierra Leone Liberia (Monrovia)
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The Second Great Awakening The Second Great Awakening “Spiritual Reform From Within” [Religious Revivalism] Social Reforms & Redefining the Ideal of Equality Temperance Asylum & Penal Reform Education Women’s Rights Abolitionism
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A new threat to an old institution Early Abolitionists Quakers Woolman, Benezet, Lay and Lundy Women Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony David Walker The Appeal William Lloyd Garrison The Liberator
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In France, I had almost always seen the spirit of religion and the spirit of freedom pursuing courses diametrically opposed to each other; but in America, I found that they were intimately united, and that they reigned in common over the same country… Religion was the foremost of the political institutions of the United States. -- Alexis de Tocqueville, 1832 The Rise of Popular Religion R1-1
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Transcendentalism Ideology Give freedom to the slaves.
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Cult of Domesticity = Slavery The 2 nd Great Awakening inspired women to improve society. Angelina Grimké Sarah Grimké Southern Abolitionists R2-9
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Sojourner Truth (1787-1883) or Isabella Baumfree 1850 The Narrative of Sojourner Truth R2-10
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Frederick Douglass (1817- 1895) 1845 The Narrative of the Life Of Frederick Douglass 1847 “The North Star” R2-12
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Harriet Tubman (1820-1913) eHelped over 300 slaves to freedom. e$40,000 bounty on her head. eServed as a Union spy during the Civil War. “Moses”
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A new threat to an old institution Rebellion Nat Turner Southampton County Massacre Gabriel Prosser Denmark Vessey
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Defending Slavery A Peculiar Institution Insulation and suppression of dissent Distribution laws Encouraging anti-abolitionist activates Tabling anti-slavery legislation
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Defending Slavery A “positive good” Thomas Roderick Dew John C. Calhoun Quoting the Bible Examples of advanced slave holding civilizations Southern aristocracy Reformed state slave codes Minimum living standards Jefferson & Joseph Davis
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Defending Slavery The Justification for slavery George Fitzhugh A Sociology for the South & Cannibals All! Comparing Northern Industrial workers to Southern slaves Maintaining control Freed blacks must leave the south Crime to teach a slave to read Religion Slave patrols “Paddyrollers” Written passes
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