USH8: Wednesday, April 20, 2016
Lesson: Growing Tensions Between North and South
Learning Target: Use Cornell Notes to deconstruct informational
text.
Essential Question: Why was the slave issue so hard to solve?
DO
 Finish writing your Cornell Notes.
o Focus on:
 Essential Question
 Southerners see slavery as morally okay.
o Whites are superior.
o Bringing Christianity (Slavery is in the
Bible.)
 Use of slavery and growing cotton offer
extreme profit.
 Slavery is woven into the fabric of Southern
life.
 Key terms + de Tocqueville and abolitionist
 Why poor Southerners supported slavery.
 Reasons for supporting abolitionism.
 The Southern view on the Wilmot Proviso.
 Compromise of 1850