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
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
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)