Jill McCormack

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Jill McCormack

• 5th grade
• Social Studies
• Time of Slavery

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Slavery Divides the Country

• Slavery was part of a larger issue---the economy
  by the 1850s.
• The South had slaves to work on the large
  plantations, that produced most of Souths
  wealth.
• The North saw slavery as an unjust and terrible
  cruelty.

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Resisting Slavery

• Nat Turner led the most serious revolt in
  Southampton County, Virginia.
• Turners small band of enslaved people killed
  nearly 60 men, women, and children from
  slave-owning families.
• Frederick Douglass learned how to read by trading
  bread for reading lesson. He learned to write by
  tracing the letters on the ships in his neighbors
  shipyard.

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Free African Americans

• By 1850 over 430,000 free African Americans were
  living in the U.S.
• Northern states ended slavery, but were
  prejudice.
• Many times they were barred from public places
  such as lecture halls, hotels, and restqurants.
• Free African American found support by building
  commnuities and organizations of their own.

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Words of Freedom

• By 1860 about 17 African American newspapers were
  printed in the U.S.
• They were read by both blacks and whites.
• Most famous influential was the North Star,
  started by Frederick Douglass.
• Others were Freemans Advocate, Freedoms
  Journal, and The Mirror of Liberty.

• The North Star was read by people all over the
  country.
• Douglass named the paper after the star that many
  escaping slave used to guide themselves to the
  North.

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Fight for Equality
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Nation Heads for War

• To maintain a balance between free states and
  slave states, Congress passed the Missouri
  Compromise in 1820
• This created an imaginary line from east to west
  through the Louisiana Territory.
• Slavery would be allowed in all states south of
  the line and forbidden in all states north og the
  line except for Missouri

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Congress Compromises

• Compromise of 1850
• California would be admitted as a free state,
  which would benefit the North.
• The North would agreed to obey the Fugitive Slave
  Law.

• Fugitive Slave Law of 1850.
• Would require police in the free states to help
  capture slaves escaping from slave states.

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A Divided House

• Kansas-Nebraska Act allowed the Kansas
  Nebraska territories to decide for themselves
  whether to allow slavery.
• Dred Scott Decision stated that slaves were
  property.
• States Rights each state should be allowed to
  make its own decision about most issues.
• Lincoln wins election- states secede to form a
  new country- the Confederate States of America
• They drafted a constitution and elected a
  president John Davis.