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Bell Ringer – 12/9/08. Why couldn’t cotton be grown in the Upper South? Name 2 crops tended by slaves in the Upper South. Define “nationalism”. Test is THURSDAY Covers : Chapter 6 (Hamilton, Washington, Lewis & Clark, Jefferson, War of 1812)
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Bell Ringer – 12/9/08 Why couldn’t cotton be grown in the Upper South? Name 2 crops tended by slaves in the Upper South. Define “nationalism”.
Test is THURSDAY • Covers: • Chapter 6 (Hamilton, Washington, Lewis & Clark, Jefferson, War of 1812) • Chapter 7 (Henry Clay, Andrew Jackson, Indian Territory) • Chapter 8 (Lowell Girls, Cotton Gin, Southern slavery & life) • Notebooks & Study Guides due on Thursday
Changes to Study Guide • ON BACK: • X “First Seminole War” – add Whiskey Rebellion • X “Samuel Worcester” – add Embargo Act of 1807 • X “Tredegar Iron Works” – add Trail of Tears
Slave Revolts • Denmark Vessey - Free Af-Am carpenter and preacher. Planned a huge slave uprising near Charleston • Nat Turner - led a violent slave result in Virginia soon after. Killed 60 whites in the area.
Whiskey Rebellion – 1791 protest against federal taxes on whiskey
The Whig Party (1833-1856) • Didn’t like Andrew Jackson’s policies, mocked him “King Andrew” • Supported by growth of the new middle class during the 1800s • Whigs used the campaign “Tippecanoe & Tyler too” to get William Henry Harrison elected as president in 1840. He died one month after taking office.
The Indian Removal Act • 1830, it relocated Indian nations (tribes) living east of the Mississippi to Oklahoma • Pres. Jackson said Indians should move West, where “their white brothers will not trouble them”
Market Revolution • Reduced the cost of manufactured products • Farmers bought farm machines • Families now bought cloth at markets
Southern Economy • Despite the plantation stereotype, the South was, in reality, a complex region. Large slaveholders were extremely rare. However, although large slaveholders were few in number, they owned most of the South’s slaves. • Slave ownership was relatively widespread. About 1/3 of all southern white families owned slaves. Slaveowners were a diverse lot. A few were African American, mulatto, or Native American; one-tenth were women; and more than one in ten worked as artists or merchants rather than as farmers or planters. Few led lives of leisure or refinement. The average slaveowner lived in a log cabin rather than a mansion and was a farmer rather than a planter.
Southern Economy • Planters and wives had to work hard to earn wealth; only a small amount were wealthy • Markets were far away – most Southerners lived on corn and pork • Slaves were encouraged to be Christian. Many slaves kept their culture through family ties and story-telling. • Yeoman farmers – small, poor farmers who live off their land and resources