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- AP US History
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- The Southern Economy
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- Southern Society-Circa 1850 Slavocracy [plantation owners] ThePlain Folk [white yeoman farmers ] Freemen 250,000 Slaves 3,200,000 Total US Population 23,000,000 [9,250,000 in the South = 40%] 6,000,000
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- Southern Population
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- Southern Agriculture
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- Georgia Plantation
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- Ledger of John White Matilda Selby, 9, $400.00 sold to Mr. Covington, St. Louis, $425.00 Brooks Selby, 19, $750.00 Left at Home Crazy Fred McAfee, 22, $800.00 Sold to Pepidal, Donaldsonville, $1200.00 Howard Barnett, 25, $750.00 Ranaway. Sold out of jail, $540.00 Harriett Barnett, 17, $550.00 Sold to Davenport and Jones, Lafourche, $900.00
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- Reliance on Cotton- changes on production 1820 1860
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- Cotton Exports
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- Resistance
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- Refusal to work hard. Isolated acts of sabotage. Escape via the Underground Railroad. Slave Resistance
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- 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. Quilt Patterns=Secret Messages
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- Rebellion
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- Nat Turner, 1831 Gabriel Prosser, 1800 1822
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- Growing concerns over Slavery
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- Distribution of Slave Labor
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- Slave Owning Population-Circa 1850
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- Early Emancipation in the North
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- 1.U. S. Constitution: * 3/5s compromise [I.2] * fugitive slave clause [IV.2] 2.1793 Fugitive Slave Act. 3.1850 stronger Fugitive Slave Act. Laws on Slavery
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- 1780s: 1 st 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 Slavery in the South- Unusual?
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- Missouri Compromise
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- Compromise of 1850
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- Author of Uncle Toms 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 Harriet Beecher Stowe 1811-1896
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- Presidential Election 1852 Franklin Pierce Democrat General Winfield Scott Whig John Parker Hale Free-Soil Party
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- Results
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- Kansas-Nebraska Act,1854
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- Bleeding Kansas Border Ruffians (pro-slavery Missourians)
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- Another Fight in Congress-The Crime Against Congress Sen. Charles Sumner (R-MA) Congr. Preston Brooks (D-SC)
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- Birth of Republican Party Northern Whigs Northern Democrats. Free-Soilers. Know-Nothings. Other miscellaneous opponents of the Kansas-Nebraska Act.
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- Presidential Election, 1856
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- Dred Scott Decision Dred Scott v Sanford, 1857
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- Harpers Ferry, 1859
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- Illinois Senate race 1858 A House divided against itself, cannot stand. Popular Sovereignty Lincoln-Douglas Debates
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- The Final Nail Election of 1860
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- The Candidates Abraham Lincoln Republican John Bell Constitutional Union Stephen Douglass Northern Democrat Stephen C. Breckenridge Southern Democrat
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- 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?
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- RESULTS
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- A nation coming Apart? Discuss the cartoon. Who is presented and what is it symbolizing?
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- One Last Attempt to Preserve the Union Crittenden Compromise: Senator John J. Crittenden (Know-Nothing-KY) Corwin Compromise Senator Thomas Corwin (Ohio)
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- Secession ! SC, Dec 20, 1860
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- Fort Sumter: April 12, 1861
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