Day 5 race & slavery

Day 5 Race & SlaveryLet’s review for the test today

One paper per groupIn your groups write 10-15 questions starting with “How…” or “Why…” and your state across the top

Day 5 Race & SlaveryAssignment #1

1.OPTIC on this image2.Do you think a person should be

allowed to sell themselves into slavery for a certain time period?

Title: “The Man who won the elephant at the raffle” – New York Newspaper 1863

3. OPTIC on this image

4. Predict percentage of Southerners do you think owned slaves in 1850?

5. Predict percentage of Americans do you think owned slaves in 1850?

Slavery in 1850• 347,525 slave owners• 6,184,477 white southerners• 23,191,876 total Americans

• Percentage of slave owners• 347,525/6184477 = 0.056• 0.056 X 100 = 5.6 % Southerners owned slaves• 347525/23191876 = 0.14• 0.014 X 100 = 1.4 % Americans owned slaves

Source Otto H. Olsen & US 1850 census

Slavery in 1850

• Average slave cost $6,000 (2014 = $85,000)

• Average slave owner owned 5 or more slaves

What were slaves doing?• Plantation life• House work• Field work (cotton)• Some treated ok• Rules: – No education– No guns– No marriage– No last names– Only church

How to end slavery?Slaveholders are wealthy & powerful

5 of 9 judges from slaveholding families“The American Way!”

Let’s play trial again• Nat Turner page 286• John Brown page 332 & 334-5

Abolitionist Movement• Worked to Abolish slavery in US • OR leave United States

Uncle Tom’s Cabin

• 1852• Harriet Beecher Stowe

Abolitionist Movement

Fredrick Douglass John BrownWilliam Lloyd Garrison

Thousands of Americans helped to free slavesWomen get involved politically

WL Garrison reading

Your choice:•6 pane comic based on

WL Garrison’s writing• 1 page movie script

outline of WL Garrison’s life

• In Garrison’s style pick an issue you think he

would care about today and write a 1

page editorial about it

In your notes

1. Which states do not have the death penalty?

Death Penalty by state

http://www.azcorrections.gov/inmate_datasearch/Minh_NewDeathRow.aspx

Popular Sovereignty• Voters should choose laws within state• Examples?

MIMAL

Popular Sovereignty

Map instructions answer questions on back1. Outline MIMAL2. Color the slave states orange or red3. Color the free states green4. Label and color the territories of popular sovereignty

yellow5. Make a legend for your map6. How many slave/free states are there?7. How did the Compromise of 1850 postpone the Civil War

by a few years?8. List 4 issues that are still decided by popular sovereignty

today9. Why is popular sovereignty a good idea for a big country

like the US or Mexico?

Next Assignment1. 330-1 why was Kansas “bleeding” in 1856?

2. Write 3 newspaper headlines about events for the Atlanta newspaper

3. Page 333, why was Charles Sumner hit with a cane?4. Answer #1-2 page 333

Presidential Election of 1856

#5 OPTIC

James Buchanan

• President 1856-1860• Democrat• lawyer• Pro-slavery Northerner• Only bachelor prez• Generally considered one

of the worst presidents

6 OPTIC

7 OPTIC

Dred Scott Decision

• Slaves are property• Congress can’t ban slavery

in territories

Pretend you are congressmen in 1859Consider the following abolitionist proposals:1. Free the slaves (no compensation for slave owners

or slaves)2. Free the slaves ($80,000/slave compensation)3. Free the slaves (compensation for both slaves and

slave owners)4. North breaks away from south5. Make up something else6. Choose the one you like bestConsider pro’s and con’s of each, on your OPTIC paper

Civil War (1861-1864)

Readingshow clip

Your choice:•12 pane comic based on

Fredrick Douglass’ 1st chapter

•23 questions history questions you would ask

him•Detailed letter to US mint

using 5 historical reasons Douglass should replace Jackson on the $20 bill

Weekend Extra Credit

• Watch either: Amistad, 12 years a slave or The Butler

• Write 1 page summary and your opinion of how it shows the history of slavery

• Bring colors, Civil War project Monday