NOTE-TAKING GUIDE: Of the People: A History of the United States CHAPTER 10 “Slavery and the Nation: 1790 – 1828”
COMMON THREADS
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What was the impact of the cotton gin on American overseas trade?
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How did the economic development of the South affect the economic
development of the nation?
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How did the social and cultural development of the South after 1800
affect the daily lives of northerners?
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How did the tariff affect the South?
OUTLINE
Southern Slavery
“Property in Man”
The Domestic Slave Trade
Plantation Slavery
American Landscape: Profit and Loss on an American Plantation
Other Varieties of Slavery
America and the World: The Demand for Raw Cotton
Resistance and Creation Among Southern Slaves
Slavery and National Development
Slavery and Industrialization in the Northeast
Slavery and the West
Slavery and the Laws of the Nation
Free Black People in a Republic of Slavery
The Politics of Slavery
The Missouri Compromise
Antislavery in the 1820s
Conclusion
WHO?
WHAT?
Benjamin Lundy
American Colonization Society
Lucretia Mott
Free Produce Movement
Eli Whitney
South Carolina Seamen Act
Lowell mills
REVIEW QUESTIONS
1. What were the provisions of the Missouri Compromise?
2. How were the Waltham and Lowell mills linked to the South?
3. How did the 1808 abolition of the foreign slave trade affect slavery
in the United States?
4. What assumptions about American society were expressed in the
American Colonization Society?
NOTES: TO FOLLOW UP / QUESTIONS TO ASK IN CLASS