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British Acts leading to the Revolution

British Acts leading to the Revolution. 1650-1775. Acts – specific to Mercantile System . Acts – Under Grenville . Acts – under Townshend. The Intolerable Acts - 1774 . Acts . Antebellum America . Post Revolutionary War – Civil War . Basic Elements of Antebellum America . North .

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British Acts leading to the Revolution

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  1. British Acts leading to the Revolution 1650-1775

  2. Acts – specific to Mercantile System

  3. Acts – Under Grenville

  4. Acts – under Townshend

  5. The Intolerable Acts - 1774

  6. Acts

  7. Antebellum America Post Revolutionary War – Civil War

  8. Basic Elements of Antebellum America North South • Early Emancipation • Industrialization • Politics • Issue of Slavery • Second Great Awakening • Religions • Utopian Society • Women’s reform • Westward expansion • Agrarian based • Lacked transportation • Cotton is king • Societal structure • Laws regarding slavery • Constitution • Fugitive Slave Act 1783 and 1850

  9. Forging a national economy *North • Westward expansion • Frontier life was crude • Frontiers men called on neighbors and government for help • Population • Growing immensely • Urban areas • High birth rate and immigration • Anti-Foreignism

  10. Forging A National Economy • Creeping Mechanization – North • British inventors created machines for mass production of textiles • Ushered in modern factory systems • Many people to consume goods • Samuel Slater – father of the factory system • First factory – Rhode Island • Whitney Ends the Fiber Famine – South • Cotton gin • Cotton became highly profitable • South became tied to cotton • Produced Westward expansion in the South

  11. Forging a National Economy • Western Farmers Reap a Revolution in the fields • Farms changed the face of the West • Grew grain • Produce floated down Ohio and Mississippi Rivers • Inventions helped speed up farming • Plows, mechanical mower-reaper • Highways and Steamboats • Raw materials needed to be transported to factories • Lancaster turnpike in Pennsylvania • Cumberland Road • Steamboats North and West South and North

  12. Forging a National Economy • Railroads • Defied terrain and weather • Many lines built post 1850

  13. Forging a National Economy • Transportation web binds the union • Connected the West to the East • More specifically in the North • Regions were specialized • South – Cotton for export to NE and England • West – Grain for livestock and workers in the East and Europe • East – made machines and textiles for the West and South • Political and Military implications • Mississippi River connected the South • Overlooked the fact that many other forms connected the North and West • The interdependent economy would prove problematic

  14. South and the Slavery Controversy • Cotton is King • North and South depended on Cotton to make money • 1/2 the value of all exports post 1840 • Produced half the world supply of cotton • Britain was aware of this • Planter Aristocracy • Educated kids in schools in the north or abroad • Undemocratic • Feudal Society

  15. Southern Society (1850) “Slavocracy”[plantation owners] 6,000,000 The “Plain Folk”[white yeoman farmers] Black Freemen 250,000 Black Slaves3,200,000 Total US Population  23,000,000[9,250,000 in the South = 40%]

  16. South and the Slavery Controversy • Plantation agriculture • Land butchery • Heavy population leakage to the West and Northwest • Monopolistic • Big got bigger • Financially unstable • Overspeculation of land and slaves • One crop economy • North grew fat at the South’s expense • Repelled immigrants

  17. The South and the Slavery Controversy • Early Abolitionism • Inhumanity of the “peculiar institution” gradually caused anti-slavery societies to sprout forth • Quakers • American Colonization Society • Slave culture • By 1860s most Africans were born in America • 1830s the abolitionist movement took off • Britain released slaves in the West Indies • The Second Great Awakening • Uncle Tom’s Cabin

  18. The South and the Slavery Controversy • Radical Abolitionism • William Lloyd Garrison • The Liberator • Wendell Phillips • “Abolition’s golden trumpet” • David Walker • Appeal to the Colored Citizens of the World • Sojourner Truth • Frederick Douglass • Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass

  19. The South and the Slavery Controversy • The South Lashes Back • In the 1820s antislavery societies were more numerous in the South • After 1830 this stopped • Turner’s Rebellion • Nullification Crisis • Arguments for slavery • Widened issue between North and South • Free people and Free speech

  20. The South and the Slavery Controversy • Abolitionist Impact in the North • Many were unpopular in the North • Constitution was revered • North had heavy stake in the South • By the 1850s the movement gained steam in the North • Didn’t want to abolish the peculiar institution outright • Free Soilers • Manifest Destiny • Controversy over slavery in new territories • Sectional Balance • Missouri Compromise • Compromise of 1850 • Bloodhound bill • Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854 • Popular sovereignty

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