Think about it…

Geography Review!

Use the information to answer the questions on the back

Today’s Questions:

oWhat issues divided the nation before the Civil War?

oHow did different views on slavery cause tension in the

United States?

Today’s Agenda:

1. Notes: major issues that divided the nation

2. 5 minute break

3. In groups: What were the different viewpoints on slavery leading up to the war?

North or South?

North or South?

Constitutional Issues

A major conflict was ______ rights versus a strong _______ government.

Southerners believed that _______ had the power to declare any national law illegal

Northerners believed that the _______government’s power was supreme over the power of the _______.

Economic Issues

Tariff:

The _______ was a manufacturing region, and its people favored tariffs that protected ______ owners and workers from foreign competition.

The _______ was an agricultural society. Southerners opposed tariffs that would cause the prices of manufactured goods to increase.

Planters in the South were also concerned that Great Britain might stop buying _______ from the South if tariffs were added.

Why did the North and South disagree on tariffs?

What is the last major issue that divided the nation?

Slavery: Dividing a Nation

While there were several differences between North and South, _________ increasingly divided the nation and led to the _____ _____.

Slavery

“There was never a moment in our history when slavery wasn’t a sleeping serpent. It lay coiled up under the table during the deliberations of the Constitutional Convention. Owing to the

Cotton Gin, it was more than half awake. Thereafter, slavery was on everyone’s mind,

though not always on his tongue.”

---John J Chapman

The Slavery Debate:

Arguments FOR slavery Arguments AGAINST slavery

William Lloyd

Garrison

John C. Calhoun

James Kirke

Paulding Abraham Lincoln

Frederick Douglass

Angelina Grimke

With your group:

With your group, read the handout OUT LOUD and fill in the chart on your

worksheet by writing:–Two Details of Person’s View on

Slavery–Actions taken to support that

Viewpoint

Example:

Person Two Details of Person’s View on Slavery

Actions Person took to Support Viewpoint

George Fitzhugh

1. African Americans were an “inferior” class of black laborers2. A society run by slave-masters was better off than one run by cruel business leaders of a free society

He wrote pamphlets like “Slavery Justified” (1850), and “The Failure of a Free Society” (1854). He also wrote Sociology for the South (1854) in which he urged Southerner to further defend their defense of slavery.

The Slavery Debate:

o2 people from each group, come to the front!

oTell us about your person. Do they support slavery? What

actions did they take to support their viewpoint?

For or against slavery?

Put the people in order from most pro (for) slavery to most

anti (against) slavery!

Pro-Slavery------------------Anti-Slavery

William Lloyd

Garrison

John C. Calhoun

James Kirke

Paulding Abraham Lincoln

Frederick Douglass

Angelina Grimke

Pro-Slavery------------------Anti-Slavery

North/South Pictures

Draw a picture to represent the differences between North and South.

What was life like in the North?

What was life like in the South?

Which continent?

Which ocean?

What are the lines going from east to west (side to side) called?

What is the name of this line?

Lines going from north to south (up and down)?

This line?

Which continent?

Which river is known as a “gateway to the west?”

Which river is B?

Which ocean is next to Virginia?

Which line on the globe is 0 degrees latitude?

Which river is G?

The Rio Grande forms the border between the United States and…?

What is the longest river in the United States?

Which line is 0 degrees longitude?

Which river is H?

What did the Gulf of Mexico provide for the French and Spanish?

Lines of longitude are also called…

Which river is D?

Lines of latitude are also called…

Which river is E?

Inland port cities grew along these lakes…

Who explored the Colorado River?

Which river is C?

Which body of water that surrounds Antarctica?