Name_________________________________________________________
Period__________
Antebellum America – North v. South
Antebellum = ________________________________
NORTH
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New machines transform the T____________________ industry
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“Old Immigration” – people coming to America from North and Western Europe (mostly
_____________, __________________, and_________________
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List some characteristics of the FACTORY SYSTEM
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How did discrimination and prejudice impact the lives of minorities in the North?
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What was ironic about the Nativist platform/belief?
SOUTH
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How many of the 13 original colonies had slavery? ___________
How did slavery begin in America? What changed?
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What does the case of John Punch illustrate about “race” and what begins to happen by the 17th c.?
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What did many Northern states begin to do about slavery by the 1700s?
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What can you conclude about the FREE African-American population by 1850?
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What is chattel slavery?
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How are the Cotton Gin and Slavery linked?
SOUTH (continued)
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How did the antebellum South attempt to control 4 million enslaved people?
Constant threat of P____________________ V___________________, S__________________
A_________________ F_______________________ and/or H______________________ a person’s
family/friends if he/she “misbehaved”
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Laws called S____________________ C___________________ designed to limit the power of
enslaved African-Americans
Some examples include:
What do you think the images are? How would they impact the life of an enslaved person?
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How did people fight back or resist?
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What do you think would be the hardest part of being a slave? Why? What would you do to try and
keep hope alive?