The South
Standards & Essential Question
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The Student will explain the relationship
between growing north-south divisions &
western expansion
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How did slavery become a significant issue in
American politics?
How did the 2nd Great Awakening affect this
growing dissention?
What were the outcomes of slave rebellions?
Take Five…
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What were the differences between Northern
labor (immigrants) and Southern labor
(slaves)?
The Practice of Slavery
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Northern point of view
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Southern point of view
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Manumission
Backbone of agriculture
Protecting blacks from poor whites
Mason-Dixon line
Colonization movement
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American Colonization Society
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Sierra Leone
Liberia (Monrovia)
The Second Great
Awakening
“Spiritual Reform From Within”
[Religious Revivalism]
Social Reforms & Redefining the
Ideal of Equality
Temperance
Education
Abolitionism
Asylum &
Penal Reform
Women’s
Rights
A new threat to an old institution
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Early Abolitionists
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Quakers
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Women
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Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony
David Walker
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Woolman, Benezet, Lay and Lundy
The Appeal
William Lloyd Garrison
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The Liberator
The Rise of Popular Religion
In France, I had almost always seen
the spirit of religion and the spirit of
freedom pursuing courses diametrically
opposed to each other; but in America,
I found that they were intimately
united, and that they reigned in common
over the same country… Religion was the
foremost of the political institutions of
the United States.
-- Alexis de Tocqueville, 1832
R1-1
Transcendentalism Ideology
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Give freedom to the slaves.
Cult of Domesticity = Slavery
The 2nd Great Awakening inspired women
to improve society.
Angelina Grimké
R2-9
Southern Abolitionists
Sarah
Grimké
Sojourner Truth (1787-1883)
or Isabella Baumfree
1850  The Narrative of Sojourner Truth
R2-10
Frederick Douglass (1817-1895)
1845  The Narrative of the Life
Of Frederick Douglass
1847  “The North Star”
R2-12
Harriet Tubman
(1820-1913)
Helped over 300 slaves
to freedom.
$40,000 bounty on her
head.
Served as a Union spy
during the Civil War.
“Moses”
A new threat to an old institution
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Rebellion
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Nat Turner
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Southampton County Massacre
Gabriel Prosser
Denmark Vessey
Defending Slavery
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A Peculiar Institution
Insulation and suppression of dissent
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Distribution laws
Encouraging anti-abolitionist activates
Tabling anti-slavery legislation
Defending Slavery
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A “positive good”
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Thomas Roderick Dew
John C. Calhoun
Quoting the Bible
Examples of advanced slave holding civilizations
Southern aristocracy
Reformed state slave codes
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Minimum living standards
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Jefferson & Joseph Davis
Defending Slavery
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The Justification for slavery
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George Fitzhugh
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A Sociology for the South & Cannibals All!
Comparing Northern Industrial workers to Southern slaves
Maintaining control
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Freed blacks must leave the south
Crime to teach a slave to read
Religion
Slave patrols
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“Paddyrollers”
Written passes