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Slavery in the United States

Out of Many AP Edition Chapter 4

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Chapter 4: Slavery and Empire Outline ? African Slaves Build their Own Community in Coastal Georgia Slavery was??originally prohibited in the original 1732 Georgia charter; the ban was lifted two decades later when Georgia became a Royal colony. By 1770, 15,000 slaves made up 80% of the population. Rice was one of the most valuable commodities of mainland North America, surpassed only by tobacco and wheat. The Atlantic slave trade grew to match rice production. ???Saltwater? slaves (slaves taken from Africa, rather than ?country born?) were inspected and branded on coastal forts in Africa, shipped overseas (where many died), then sold and marched to plantations Mortality rates were high for slaves, especially infants. Overseers could legally punish slaves and even murder them.

APUSH Chp. 11 The Plain Folk

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Typical Yeomen farmer: - Owned few slaves, worked and lived more closely w/ than larger planters ? Focus on subsistence farming ? Generally not enough production out of debt or expansion - Greatly limited education system in South ? Only upper class had better education and access ? South had over half the nation's total of illiterate whites "Hill People: - Lived in "hill country"/"backcountry" areas (Ex: Appalachian ranges) - Simple subsistence agriculture ? No slaves, unconnected to cotton economy - Animosity to planter aristocracy (only population to do so) ? Only area in South to reject 1860s secession Non slaveowning Whites: - Depended on local plantation aristocracy for access to cotton gins, markets and credit

APUSH Chp. 11 Southern White Society

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Small minority of southern whites owned slaves - 1860: 8m white population only 400k slaveholders (1/20th) + small proportion of already small number of slaveholders had a substantial number of slaves
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APUSH Chp. 11 Slavery the "Peculiar Institution"

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Name from being distinctive, special Isolated South from rest of American society, and much of the world Isolated blacks from whites, but also mutually deep influence
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APUSH Chp. 11 Rise of King Cotton

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Short-staple Cotton: - Hardier/coarser, but easier to grow, more versatility in location and soil - Previously not sued due to difficult of processing (seeds hard to remove from fiber) ? Solved by cotton gin (1793) - Growing demand for cotton ? 1820s and 1830s Britain ? 1840s and 1850s New England - Production moved further west from Southeast Coast - 1850s, cotton the linchpin of southern economy ? 1860s (civil war) , 2/3 of total export trade of US Booming cotton production in Deep South/lower South/cotton kingdom: - Migration of settlers (majority small slaveholders and slaveless farmers) - "Second Middle Passage" 1840 - 1860 huge forced migration of slaves from upper South to lower South/cottons states

chronological reasoning

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Chronological Reasoning Wilmot Proviso- he Wilmot Proviso was a proposal to prohibit slavery in the territory acquired by the United States at the conclusion of the Mexican War. In 1846, David Wilmot a Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives from Pennsylvania, proposed the Wilmot Proviso. Mexican American war- The Mexican?American War, also known in the United States as the Mexican War and in Mexico as the American intervention in Mexico, was an armed conflict between the United States of America and the United Mexican States from 1846 to 1848. Fugitive Slave Act- Fugitive Slave Act was passed by the United States Congress on September 18, 1850, as part of the Compromise of 1850 between Southern slave-holding interests and Northern Free-Soilers.

Lincoln vs Douglass

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Lincoln & Douglass Debate 1. Douglass explains how Lincoln said that the government cannot permanently stay in the same condition made by industry and farmers, its either a free state or a slave state. He says that we can?t turn it back to when the founding fathers established a government. Laws and regulations weren?t deemed much attention by plantations, therefore, provided that each State should retain its own legislature. Douglass responds by saying why can?t the country be divided into slave or free state. 2. Lincoln is opposed by the Dred Scott decision because it deprives the black people?s rights and privileges of citizenship. If you desire citizenship for the black community, if

Ways of the World Outline Chapter 14

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CHAPTER 14 OUTLINE I. Opening Vignette A. The Atlantic slave trade was and is enormously significant. B. The slave trade was only one part of the international trading networks that shaped the world between 1450 and 1750. 1. Europeans broke into the Indian Ocean spice trade 2. American silver allowed greater European participation in the commerce of East Asia 3. fur trapping and trading changed commerce and the natural environment C. Europeans were increasingly prominent in long-distance trade, but other peoples were also important. D. Commerce and empire were the two forces that drove globalization between 1450 and1750. II. Europeans and Asian Commerce A. Europeans wanted commercial connections with Asia.

Harriet Tubman essay

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Harriet Tubman: The Greatest Achievement ?I grew up like a neglected weed.? was Harriet?s way of saying her life. Harriet Tubman was born as a slave in Dorchester City, Maryland, sometime in the early 1820. She lived until 90 years old. Harriet Tubman worked in the Underground Railroad in risks for ten years. She worked for the North in the Civil War, help nurses and care for soldiers without any pay or pensions. Then, Harriet taking care of poor people in her shelter for the last 48 years of her life. So, consider each undertaking, the risks she took, the time devoted and the people she helped. What was Harriet Tubman?s Greatest Accomplishment? The Underground Railroad is Harriet?s greatest accomplishment but her other accomplishments is also worth honorable mention.

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