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- sold in the North
- was the major export for the southern colonies
- cotton growers were in the south
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| How did slave owners treat slaves? |
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| Slave owners treated slaves like they were animals, they got little food and were whipped if they did something bad |
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| How was a slave family treated? |
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| They were sold and separated so that children slaves often did not have contact with siblings or parents |
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- Abolitionists = those who wanted to abolish slavery in its entirety
- Abolitionist movement was increasing in the northern states
- While the south = pro slavery
- States started to join the union as free states (federal government)
- Union mainly consisted of the northern states whereas the confederacy was the south
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| He was a black slave that turned to be a very successful author and editor. He was treated in harsh conditions, but besides this he learned to read and write which was the key to his freedom and success. (refer back to Narrative of Frederick Douglas) |
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- Quest of slavery divided the nation (north vs. south)
- North formed the union
- Were anti-slavery
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- Anti-slavery members of the whig party and democratic party
- main purpose was to oppose the expansion of slavery into the western territories
- argued that free men on free soil comprised a morally and economically superior system to slavery
- opposed slavery in the new territories and sometimes worked to remove laws that discriminated against freed African Americans in states such as Ohio
- Basically slavery had to stay in the south; couldn't be expanded
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| Nothern congressman adds bill saying no slavery in states acquired in war with Mexico |
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- Whig party divided over Kansas act
- "Know nothing" party rises, favoring native-born people
- Anti slavery Whigs and free soil party merge to form the Republican Party
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- Made up the confederacy
- Pro-slavery
- Southerners considered themselves more homogeneous meaning they were basically of English or Scotch-Irish descent that had been in the country for centuries
- Whereas, many northerners were transplanted Europeans who had recently arrived
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- surged in the south with their policy of using intimidation and violence in trying to stop the black from voting
- wanted to destroy the republican party
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- California wanted to join union as a free state
- Southerners were made because that meant one more states less of the senate, abolitionist increasing
- California as a free state, meant stronger fugitive slave laws and "popular sovereignty" for new states
- Congress would eventually agree to this Compromise thanks mainly to the efforts of Senators Adams, John Calhoun, and Henry Clay
- Under this compromise California would enter the Union as a free state
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| Give an example of popular sovereignty |
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New Mexico and Utah territories would be decided by the people living there
Pop. sovereignty = the political doctrine that the people who lived in a region should determine for themselves the nature of their government. |
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- Whig Party vs. Democratic Party vs. Free Soil Party
- Slavery = the #1 issue was avoided by Whig and Democratic but not by Free soil
- Democratic Party with Franklin Pierce won the election
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- Any slave that escapes needs to be returned to its owner, if they found a slave in someone's house who wasn't the owner they were fined $1000
- Slaves get no trial, just sent back
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- Made it easier to grow cotton, led to an economic boom in the lower southern states of South Carolina and Georgia
- Cotton became the #1 export item of the US
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