1.  Discuss: Can you think of inventions that have hindered or worsened the world?  Today, I will be able to explain why cotton planters moved westward. I will be able to describe how the cotton gin affected slavery in the South and give reasons why the South was less industrialized than the North.  Yesterday, we took the open-note quiz for 14.1/14.2  Section 3 must be completed by the end of class.

2.  The Cotton Gin The Cotton Gin

5. 1820: No slavery above 36 30’ Maine free state; Missouri slave state

6. Our country after the War with Mexico (Mexican Cession)

7. Compromise of 1850: California was admitted as a free state; Utah and New Mexico would get to exercise popular sovereignty; Slavery in D.C. is outlawed; a strict fugitive slave act was passed to make the South happy.

8. Kansas/Nebraska Act: Nebraska split into 2 territories: Both territories would exercise popular sovereignty

9.  People in the state or territory will decide whether they would be a free or slave state/territory. This would be decided by popular vote.

10.  Many southerners invested in purchasing land and slaves, not factories and infrastructure (Remember the American System wasn’t popular in the South).  Also, slaves weren’t paid a wage, so the demand for factory produced goods was much more limited in the South compared to the North.

11.  Read the quotation on page 387