Day 54: The South and the Slavery ControversyBaltimore Polytechnic Institute

November 18, 2010A.P. U.S. History

Mr. Green

Objectives: Describe the economic strengths and weaknesses of the Cotton Kingdom and its central role in the prosperity of Britain as well as the United States.Outline the hierarchical social structure of the South, from the planter aristocracy to African American slaves.Describe the non-slaveholding white majority of the South, and explain why most poorer whites supported slavery even though they owned no slaves.

AP FocusThe South in the antebellum period is dominated by the planter-slaveholder class, which comprises only a small percentage of the South’s white population—approximately two-thirds of southern whites own no slaves. So important is cotton to the South’s—and, some contend, the nation’s—economy that it is referred to as King Cotton.

The life of freed slaves, while appreciably better than that of their enslaved brethren, is precarious. Freed slaves did not find a panacea to their problems and treatment in the North either.

Rise of a Mass Democracy

CHAPTER THEMESThe explosion of cotton production

fastened the slave system deeply upon the South, creating a complex, hierarchical racial and social order that deeply affected whites as well as blacks.

The economic benefits of an increasing production of cotton due to the cotton gin and slavery were shared between the South, the North, and Britain. The economics of cotton and slavery also led to bigger and bigger plantations, since they could afford the heavy investment of human capital.

Chapter Focus

Focus Questions Due for Chapter 16 today. Submit Presidential Election Charts 1828,

1832, 1836, 1840-you are losing points if you have not submitted them for grading

Decades Chart for the 1830’s due today

Announcements

Slaves denied an education-education brought ideas and discontent

Slaves utilized tactics to upset ownersslow worksabotage of equipmentpoison owners

RebellionsDenmark Vesey-Charleston, SCNat Turner-slaughtered 60 Virginians, mostly women and children

Amistad (1839)seized control of Spanish slave ship and driven ashore on Long IslandFormer President John Q. Adams secured their freedom with their return to Sierra Leone

The Burdens of Bondage

Early Abolitionsim

QuakersAmerican Colonization Society-return slaves

to AfricaLiberia-established for former slaves, capital

named after a U.S. Presidentonly foreign capital named after a U.S.

President

William Lloyd Garrison-The LiberatorDavid Walker-Appeal to the Colored Citizens

of the World-advocated a bloody endSojourner TruthMartin Delany –re-colonization theoryFrederick Douglass

political response to end slavery

Radical Abolitionism

Missouri Compromise of 1820Virginia tightens slave codes and others join

a response to Nat Turner’s rebellionNullification crisis of 1832 Slavery as a positive goodOwners encouraged religionThis support of slavery further widened the

gap between the North and South

South Lashes Back

Explain how the North and the South were connected. Be sure to include finance, cotton, and commerce.

Exit Ticket

Begin reading all of Chapter 16

5 Question reading check at the beginning of class.

Homework