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VOCABULARY TERMS
Antebellum Emancipate Yeomen Farmers Sectionalism Tariff Sovereign States’ Rights Nullification Secession Abolitionist Interdependent Popular Sovereignty
I. Issue of slavery
Antebellum – refers to the time period before the Civil War. Books that help portray life in the Antebellum
period: Gone With the Wind – Margaret Mitchell Uncle Ramus and Brer Rabbit – Joel Chandler
Harris
I. Issue of slavery
King Cotton – the idea that cotton controlled every aspect of Southern Life during the Antebellum period. Cotton Ruled the South.
I. Issue of Slavery
Life on a Plantation Planters – people who
owned the farm. Overseers – People
put in charge of the plantation in place of the planter.
Driver – a loyal slave who keeps other slaves in line.
Slaves – people who do most of the manual labor.
I. Issue of Slavery
Southern Social Class Planters – owned
plantations and multiple slaves. Controlled society.
Yeomen Farmers – Owned less than 100 acres. Few or no slaves.
Poor Whites – owned little land.
Slaves – worked in the service of others
Slaves and Poor Whites
Yeomen Farmers
Planters
II. Economic considerations
SECTIONALISM – the belief that the way of life in your region of the country is better or more important than in other parts of the country.
II. Economic considerations
SOUTH NORTH
Relied on Agriculture.
Most people worked long hours on farms. This included poor whites and slaves.
Relied on industry such as factories, mines, banks, and railroads.
Most people worked long hours for little pay
II. Economic considerations
Tariff – a tax on imported items. Northerners –
supported tariffs Southerners –
opposed tariffs This is because
Southerners would be forced to buy items from the North.
II. Economic Considerations
Nullification – Southerners believed that every state was SOVEREIGN and that STATES’ RIGHTS were important so they tried to NULLIFY laws that required them to pay tariffs.
Many discussed SECESSION
III. Politics and Sectionalism
BALANCE OF POWERS:There was an equal number of slaves states and free states. This prevented any laws dealing with slavery from passing.
But how do we admit new states?
III. Politics and sectionalism
Missouri Compromise – states must enter the Union in pairs.
Missouri entered the Union as a slave state
Maine entered the Union as a free state.
III. Politics and sectionalism
Compromise of 1850 Gold discovered in
California. California enters
the Union as a free state.
Texas enters the Union as a slave state.
III. Politics and Sectionalism
Kansas-Nebraska Act Created Kansas and
Nebraska Decided to use
POPULAR SOVEREIGNTY. People in each state voted on the slavery issue.
Bleeding Kansas – people from North and South moved to Kansas and fought over slavery.
III. Politics and Sectionalism
Georgia Platform The General
Assembly issued a statement saying that they put the “ideas” of the Constitution above the well-being of the whole country.
III. Politics and Sectionism
Dred Scott Decision Dred Scott was a
slave who sued his master to keep his freedom.
Supreme Court said slaves are property and have no right to sue. Dred Scott stayed a slave.