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Opening Task. Pick up a Slavery Overview Handout Answer Questions 1-3 in the first 5 minutes after the warning crew is here. Day 100 Objectives. Analyze the characteristics of slavery in the USA before 1860 Disclaimer…Southern POV today. 1. Triangle Slave Trade. 2. Middle Passage.
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Opening Task • Pick up a Slavery Overview Handout • Answer Questions 1-3 in the first 5 minutes after the warning crew is here
Day 100 Objectives • Analyze the characteristics of slavery in the USA before 1860 • Disclaimer…Southern POV today
1. Triangle Slave Trade 2. Middle Passage
3. Before and After 1700 • Before • Blacks treated equal to white indentured servants • What was in every state by 1700? • Slave Codes!!!
After the Slave Codes? • Caste System • Racism & White Supremacy
USA’s 1st Chance!! • Early 1800s, Tobacco = $$$ • Planters in VA about to give up on slavery
LA Purchase 1803 2nd Chance
3rd Chance was not realistic…
The cracks in the USAare becoming a problem North South
Politically… • Whigs and Strong Federal Gov • Economically • Industrializing • Capitalism • Religiosity? • Strong (Puritan) • Socially? • City life, Cosmopolitan, more of a cultural blend, immigration North 1800-1850
South 1800-1850 • Politically • Democrats • States Rights…to protect… • Economically • Not very industrialized • Agrarian • Cotton rules • Religiosity • 2nd Great Awakening • Socially • Hierarchy based on slavery
Slavery Picture • ____% of Southerners who could own slaves actually did? • Most homes of the 25% with slaves had about _____slaves • ____% of Southerners had big plantations 25 4-5 1-2
How did most slaves live? • Most worked with their owner in small fields • Treated sortof like?
South’s defense of slavery • All Democracies have had it… • Greece • Rome • GB
2nd Reason • Capitalists is more evil! • Exploit labor worse than we do in South • Black Slaves treated better in South than North • Slavery is Socialism…still cared for if old or sick • Slavery is kinder
3rd Reason It is in the Bible!!
Reason #4 • USA’s biggest documents support it…TOO BAD!!! • Which ones? • How? • How can the Abolitionists use these documents on their side too?
5. The country needs it • E, S, or P? • Everyone $$ in on it… • Get rid of it…&?
I can’t defend Reason 6 • Crazy “science” reasons • Phrenology • study of the shape of the head • who else did this? • What are the findings? • Blacks are not “wired” as well as whites…(?)
Final Question • Title = South Slavery POV • What do you think of the South’s argument for why slavery should exist? Which were the best/worst arguments they made? • 0 = Terrible Argument • 10 = Great Argument
Cotton and the South • Cotton Production explodes after the Cotton Gin invention
Cotton Gin Effects Recap • More… • Fields made • Cotton grown • Slaves needed in fields to reap the cotton • Expansion desired by South
Cotton’s Importance to the USA • After Cotton Gin, what percent of World’s Cotton grown in USA? • 1860, what percent of USA’s exports is cotton? • How can this be a big deal? And for whom? 75% 60%
Biggest Effect of Cotton Explosion in the South? • “King Cotton” means? • Cotton is a FORCE that rules the south ESP and… • Is a political negotiator with the North and… • EUROPE • So what will King Cotton tell the North? • Don’t mess with me and my land…or what?
The South will bring the North & Europe to their knees!!