PPT-Chapter 3 Establishing North American Slavery

From Slavery to Freedom 9 th ed 2010 The McGrawHill Companies Inc All Rights Reserved 2 New Amsterdam Imperial Claims to North America Early Settlements Slaves played important role in Spanish efforts to gain foothold in North America. Chapter 14. Section 2. Early Efforts to End Slavery. In 1787 at the Constitutional Convention it was decided that each state would be allowed to decide the issue of slavery themselves.. Quaker Benjamin Lundy founded the first abolitionist newspaper in 1821. By Brittney Shaw, Angela Toale, Brittany Story, and Tommy Seros. This Time in History - 1854-1861. Slavery was a hot topic. There were violent . outbreaks between . proslavery and antislavery parties (Ex: . How music became a cry for freedom. Slavery in America. African tribesmen were kidnapped and taken to North America from 1619. They were bought and sold like cattle and were forced to work, often in terrible conditions.. “A civilized nation that was both ignorant and free never was and never will be” –Thomas Jefferson. The Abolitionist Movement. Abolitionists pushed for the end of slavery.. The movement steadily increased the tensions between the North and the South. Period 3. 12/13/14. SLAVERY IN THE SOUTH/COTTON. “If you put a chain around the neck of a slave, the other end fastens itself around your own”. - Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1841. I. The Popular Sovereignty Panacea. Democrats in 1848:. Polk pledged himself to a single term. National Convention turned to aging leader General Lewis Cass. Platform silent on burning issue of slavery. 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.. The Civil War . www.Apushreview.com. The Secession Crisis. December 20, 1860 – South Carolina convention voted to secede. 6 others followed by March 4, 1861 . Buchanan did little to stop secession in his lame-duck period. The Impending Crisis. www.Apushreview.com. Looking Westward. “Manifest Destiny”. God-given right to expand from coast to coast . Coined by John O’Sullivan. Opponents to expansion?. Henry Clay and some Whigs – feared tensions over slavery . 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. 1820-1860. The South and the Slavery Controversy. Chapter 16. I. Cotton is King. After Revolution slavery faced an uncertain future, it was logical to think slavery would fade away. Invention of the cotton gin in 1793 changed that. 10.1 . Differences Between North & South: . North . South. Industry. . Sewing Machines . Farm Equipment . Guns. 20k miles of track. Telegraph lines . Agriculture. Rural Society. Economy relies on crops – cotton. Chapter 8 section 3 “The Anti-Slavery Movement” Review 1. Boston publisher of an anti-slavery paper William Lloyd Garrison 2. Term for a former slave Freedman 3. Slave who led a revolt Nat Turner Big Picture: The War of 1812 filled Americans with national pride. Yet against the backdrop of an emerging national identity, two distinct economic systems were developing in the North and South. Chapter 7: From Nationalism to sectionalism