USH8: Thursday, April 21, 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 Quiz (tomorrow) will be Matching, Multiple Choice and Essay.