day 5 race & slavery
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Day 5 Race & SlaveryLet’s review for the test today
One paper per groupIn your groups write 10-15 questions starting with “How…” or “Why…” and your state across the top
Day 5 Race & SlaveryAssignment #1
1.OPTIC on this image2.Do you think a person should be
allowed to sell themselves into slavery for a certain time period?
Title: “The Man who won the elephant at the raffle” – New York Newspaper 1863
3. OPTIC on this image
4. Predict percentage of Southerners do you think owned slaves in 1850?
5. Predict percentage of Americans do you think owned slaves in 1850?
Slavery in 1850• 347,525 slave owners• 6,184,477 white southerners• 23,191,876 total Americans
• Percentage of slave owners• 347,525/6184477 = 0.056• 0.056 X 100 = 5.6 % Southerners owned slaves• 347525/23191876 = 0.14• 0.014 X 100 = 1.4 % Americans owned slaves
Source Otto H. Olsen & US 1850 census
Slavery in 1850
• Average slave cost $6,000 (2014 = $85,000)
• Average slave owner owned 5 or more slaves
What were slaves doing?• Plantation life• House work• Field work (cotton)• Some treated ok• Rules: – No education– No guns– No marriage– No last names– Only church
How to end slavery?Slaveholders are wealthy & powerful
5 of 9 judges from slaveholding families“The American Way!”
Let’s play trial again• Nat Turner page 286• John Brown page 332 & 334-5
Abolitionist Movement• Worked to Abolish slavery in US • OR leave United States
Uncle Tom’s Cabin
• 1852• Harriet Beecher Stowe
Abolitionist Movement
Fredrick Douglass John BrownWilliam Lloyd Garrison
Thousands of Americans helped to free slavesWomen get involved politically
WL Garrison reading
Your choice:•6 pane comic based on
WL Garrison’s writing• 1 page movie script
outline of WL Garrison’s life
• In Garrison’s style pick an issue you think he
would care about today and write a 1
page editorial about it
In your notes
1. Which states do not have the death penalty?
Death Penalty by state
http://www.azcorrections.gov/inmate_datasearch/Minh_NewDeathRow.aspx
Popular Sovereignty• Voters should choose laws within state• Examples?
MIMAL
Popular Sovereignty
Map instructions answer questions on back1. Outline MIMAL2. Color the slave states orange or red3. Color the free states green4. Label and color the territories of popular sovereignty
yellow5. Make a legend for your map6. How many slave/free states are there?7. How did the Compromise of 1850 postpone the Civil War
by a few years?8. List 4 issues that are still decided by popular sovereignty
today9. Why is popular sovereignty a good idea for a big country
like the US or Mexico?
Next Assignment1. 330-1 why was Kansas “bleeding” in 1856?
2. Write 3 newspaper headlines about events for the Atlanta newspaper
3. Page 333, why was Charles Sumner hit with a cane?4. Answer #1-2 page 333
Presidential Election of 1856
#5 OPTIC
James Buchanan
• President 1856-1860• Democrat• lawyer• Pro-slavery Northerner• Only bachelor prez• Generally considered one
of the worst presidents
6 OPTIC
7 OPTIC
Dred Scott Decision
• Slaves are property• Congress can’t ban slavery
in territories
Pretend you are congressmen in 1859Consider the following abolitionist proposals:1. Free the slaves (no compensation for slave owners
or slaves)2. Free the slaves ($80,000/slave compensation)3. Free the slaves (compensation for both slaves and
slave owners)4. North breaks away from south5. Make up something else6. Choose the one you like bestConsider pro’s and con’s of each, on your OPTIC paper
Civil War (1861-1864)
Readingshow clip
Your choice:•12 pane comic based on
Fredrick Douglass’ 1st chapter
•23 questions history questions you would ask
him•Detailed letter to US mint
using 5 historical reasons Douglass should replace Jackson on the $20 bill
Weekend Extra Credit
• Watch either: Amistad, 12 years a slave or The Butler
• Write 1 page summary and your opinion of how it shows the history of slavery
• Bring colors, Civil War project Monday