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Title: Haiti, Slavery, and the U.S.


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Haiti, Slavery, and the U.S.
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Quick Overview of Haitis History
  • 1492 Discovered by Columbus

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Quick Overview of Haitis History
  • 1492 Discovered by Columbus
  • Sugar Island Immense Wealth Produced by Slaves

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Quick Overview of Haitis History
  • 1492 Discovered by Columbus
  • Sugar Island Immense Wealth Produced by Slaves
  • Slave Revolt and Independence Movement 1791-1803

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Quick Overview of Haitis History
  • 1492 Discovered by Columbus
  • Sugar Island Immense Wealth Produced by Slaves
  • Slave Revolt and Independence Movement 1791-1803
  • Napoleon, Haiti, and the Louisiana Purchase

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An Empire for Liberty?
  • Slavery, Native Americans, and Western Expansion

7
Defining the West (A Moving Target)
Far West
The Old Northwest
The Old Southwest
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Jefferson, Republicanism and Western Expansionism
  • Jefferson Landownership and Equality Important
  • Independent Landowners Can Resist Corruption
    Better than Wage Owners

9
Idea of Manifest Destiny
  • Manifest Destiny America has a God-Given
    Right to Settle the Continent

10
Removal and the Debate over Native Americans
  • Pro-Removal Indians are biologically incapable
    of becoming civilized

11
Removal and the Debate over Native Americans
  • Pro-Removal Indians are biologically incapable
    of becoming civilized
  • Anti-Removal Indians can be more like whites.

12
Which Political Party Was More Likely to Support
Indian Rights?
  • A. Democrats They represent the immigrants and
    The People.
  • B. Whigs They are the reformers.

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Cherokee Strategy Adopt White Without
Assimilation
  • Chief John Ross leads movement to modernize
    Cherokee economy
  • Commercial farming, iron foundry, and slaves
  • All Land Kept in Tribe

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Cherokees Established a Republic
  • Written language, own newspaper
  • Constitution and legislature
  • School and postal system

15
Cherokees Still Faced Pressure to Leave
Cherokee Land Contained Gold, Prime Soil for
Plantations
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Narrative of Removal
  • 1817 Cherokees formed independent republic
  • 1830 Congress Passed Indian Removal Act (CLOSE
    VOTE)
  • 1835 Treaty of New Echota
  • 1838 Forced Removal and Trail of Tears

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Tragedy of the Trail of Tears
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The Forcible Removal of Native Americans Was
Inevitable.
  • A. Yes
  • B. No

19
Another TragedyInterstate Slave Trade
  • Rich Cotton Lands in the Southwest Encourage
    Planters to Move Slaves

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Another TragedyInterstate Slave Trade
  • Rich Cotton Lands in the Southwest Encourage
    Planters to Move Slaves
  • 650,000 Slaves Sold to the West

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Another TragedyInterstate Slave Trade
  • Rich Cotton Lands in the Southwest Encourage
    Planters to Move Slaves
  • 650,000 Slaves Sold to the West
  • Network of Slave Traders, Middlemen, and Creditors

22
Location of Slaves, 1820
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Location of Slaves, 1860
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The Tragedy of the Slave Trade
  • Breakup of the Slave Families (50 percent of all
    nuclear families)

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The Tragedy of the Slave Trade
  • Breakup of the Slave Families (50 percent of all
    nuclear families)
  • Poor Conditions in West

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The Tragedy of the Slave Trade
  • Breakup of the Slave Families (50 percent of all
    nuclear families)
  • Poor Conditions in West
  • Plantation Discipline
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