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Reconstruction Chapter 22 The Ordeal of Reconstruction 18651877 The Problems of Peace Questions remain after the war What to do with free blacks How to integrate the South back into the Union. Slavery and Abolition. Chapter 17. When is evil so enormous, that it must be denounced, even at the risk of participating bloodshed and butchery? . Characteristics of the Antebellum South. Primarily agrarian.. Storyboard. Emily Glidden. ACT . I. Approximate d. uration. : 14 seconds. T. ime-lapse video of Port-au-Prince’s sunrise to sunset. Example of time-lapse video. Music begins with time-lapse video. Example of music. America: Past and Present. Chapter 11. The Divided Society of the Old South. Wealth divides white Southerners by class . (land and slave ownership). Large planters dominant class, followed by small farm slave owners, then yeoman farmers. Controversy . 1793 . - 1860. Cotton is King. Cotton Gin = Demand for slavery. Cotton = . D. ominant Southern crop. . Cotton Kingdom . ---- Agricultural Factory. More slaves / land. Cotton = ½ value of American exports after 1840. Culture from the Early Republic to the Civil War. The Cotton South and Native America. Jefferson’s Civilization Project. Government . agent Benjamin Hawkins (1754-1816) lived and worked among the Creek and Cherokee . http://. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZVTVCsr3jyg. Fade from black into video sequence. Duration, (0:40). Video complete, fade out to transition screen. Frame 1. Title Frame: . “Using Technology to Learn Anywhere”. 1793-1860. Cotton is King!. Eli . Whitney's 1793 cotton gin invention revolutionized the Southern economy. Added to mechanical jennies to spin yarn, power looms to weave, and sewing machines to sew, the demand (and profits) for cotton fiber skyrocketed.. Factors the Affected the Regions. Differences in economies as a result of geography. Regional pride leading to sectionalism. Westward expansion made the tensions worse eventually leading to southern secession and war. Plantation Agriculture. Wasteful. Excessive cultivation of cotton despoiled the land. Weaknesses of the plantation system. 1. Relied on one crop. 2. Repealed European immigrants. 3. Significant population moved West. 1820-1860. A10Q. 7.10.30. Essential Question. To what degree was the South developing as a distinctively different region from the rest of the United States during the period 1820 to 1860? . To what degree did slavery shape life in the South during this period? . American slavery was rooted in both . racism. & . economic. . exploitation. and depended on . brutal repression . for its survival.. Slavery remained a cancer on American democracy; a moral outrage that mocked our nation’s claim to be a model of social & political enlightenment. Write HW in agenda. .. .. Multiple Choice Quiz. Agenda:. MC Quiz. Review. OER Thesis. HW:. Thesis Statement WAC. What do you see?. “loyalty to a particular region”. Sectionalism divided the country and ultimately led the nation into the Civil . 1820-1860. A10Q. 7.10.30. Essential Question. To what degree was the South developing as a distinctively different region from the rest of the United States during the period 1820 to 1860? . To what degree did slavery shape life in the South during this period? . (5 years). By Rachel Harding . A4. 1861. Even . before the war there was a lot . of . tension between the North and the South because the South wanted to leave the U.S. because Abraham Lincoln was elected president and .