Chapter 16: The South

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Chapter 16 The South the Slavery Controversy

• Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not
  for themselves, and under a just God, cannot long
  retain it.
• Abraham Lincoln 1859

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The South and the Slavery ControversyManifest
Destiny and Its Legacy

• Chapters 16 17

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Cotton Is King!

• ½ of all U.S. Exports after 1840
• 1/5 of Englands population earns a living
  producing cotton cloth

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The Planter Aristocracy

• 1850 1,733
• 255,000
• ¼ of White Southerners
• Southern Society
• Women in the South...

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The White Majority

• Small Slave Owners
• Whites w/o slaves
• Flatland Whites Mountain Whites
• Subsistence Farming
• American Dream
• Free Blacks

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The Slave System

• Land Butchery.
• Monopolies
• Over speculation
• One-Crop Economy

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PlantationSlavery

• By 1860
• Most new slaves
• Beatings
• Varying Conditions
• Family Life
• African Traditions

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SlaveRevolts

• 1739 Stono Rebellion (Catos Conspiracy)
• 1822 - Denmark Vesey
• 1831 - Nat Turner

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AmericanColonizationSociety (1817)

• 1822 - Liberia
• Abraham Lincoln

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AbolitionistMovement

• Theodore Dwight Weld
• American Slavery as It Is
• William Lloyd Garrison
• The Liberator
• David Walker
• Appeal to the Colored Citizens of the World

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SojournerTruth

• Freed Black Woman
• Illiterate but charismatic

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Frederick Douglas

• Former Slave
• Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglas

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The SouthLashes Back

• Fear of revolt
• Southern Black Slaves vs. Northern Wage Slaves
• 1835 Southern Postmasters
• 1836 Gag Resolution

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Abolitionist Impactin the North

• Lack of Support
• Constitutional Reverence
• Economics
• Violence
• Rev. Elijah Lovejoy
• Few wanted slavery abolished outright but
• Free Soilers

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Election of 1840

• Log Cabins Hard Cider
• Tippecanoe Tyler Too
• Harrisons Death..
• Tyler A President without a Party

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The Lone Star of Texas Shines Alone

• Mexico
• Britain France

• Tyler annexes Texas through a joint resolution..

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1845 Texas 28th State(President Anson Jones of
the Republic of Texas lowers the Texas Flag)
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OregonFever

• Willamette River Valley rich soil
• Oregon Trail
• Disputed border with Britain major campaign
  issue 1844..
• fifty-four forty or fight!!

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John L. OSullivan Manifest Destiny
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Election of 1844

• Whigs Henry Clay

• Democrats James K. Polk

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Election of 1844

• James K. Polk

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War With Mexico

• Polk orders Gen. Zachary Taylor
• Santa Anna
• Kearney Fremont..
• Zachary Taylor

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Bear Flag Revolt -
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Winfield Scott Captures Mexico City
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• Abraham Lincolns Spot Resolutions
• Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
• U.S. paid Mexico 15 million for land assumed
  3.25 million(Why?)
• Mexican Cessation largest acquisition of land
  in U.S. History (Land area increases by 1/3)

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Wilmot Proviso

• David Wilmot (PA) introduces bill that would
  prevent slavery in the Mexican Cessation