Mr' Salazar

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Chapter 19 and 20Test Review

• Mr. Salazar

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African-Americans at Mid-Century

• The life of African-Americans in the US was
  difficult to say the least. Free blacks living in
  both the North and the South faced discrimination
  and racism.
• Blacks labored as slaves long hours every day in
  the South. The invention of the cotton gin had as
  its main effect (although unintended) the
  increased demand for more slaves.

The majority of white sutherners who did not own
slaves supported slavery because it was the main
driving force of the Souths economy.
Most slave holders were abusive and treated
slaves like grown-up children and constantly
threatened them with severe punishments.
The great majority of slaves worked as field
hands and they resisted slavery by finding ways
to avoid work, like breaking or hiding tools.
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African-Americans at Mid-Century

• Slaves desire to rebel was suppressed by their
  greatest fear. What slaves feared most was to be
  sold away from their families.
• Thats why when they gathered together in their
  invisible churches slaves brought joy and
  comfort to each other.

African cultural traditions were expressed by
slaves in art and quilts they created, songs of
spirituals sung by slaves and stories and
folktales told by them!!!!
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A Divided Nation

• The issue of whether slavery should or should not
  be allowed in the Louisiana Territory was raised
  and put forth by Missouris application for
  statehood in 1819.
• This sparked a huge slavery debate that was
  momentarily quieted down by the a Missouri
  Compromise.
• The Second great Awakening was a religious
  movement but it inspired many Americans to
  dedicate their lives to ending slavery.

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A Divided Nation

• The passage of a strong fugitive slave law to
  return runaway slaves to their owners was the
  part of the compromise of 1850 that created the
  most controversy during the 1850s.
• Then the Kansas- Nebraska Act led to bloodshed
  over slavery in Kansas.
• In the Dread Scott decision, the supreme Court
  ruled that slavery could not be kept out of the
  territories. It was a very surprising decision
  to northerners and delightful for southerners.

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A Divided Nation

• Harpers ferry became the site of a raid
  conducted by an anti- slavery and deep
  abolitionist named John Brown. His raid made him
  a hero among abolitionists.
• These events took a very divided nation to the
  polls on 1860. The results of this election
  showed how deeply divided the nation was over
  slavery.
• Once Lincoln was president South Carolina decided
  to secede form the Union. This event was turned
  into a crisis when South Carolina decided not
  only to secede but also to shell and bomb Fort
  Sumter. The civil war had begun.