1. Worlds Apart
Unit 2: Lesson 1

2. Slavery Word Splash

3. Bringing it Back Constitutional Convention Slavery major discussion
Some want to demolish/some want to keep
Great Compromise

4. Growth of Slavery
George Mason, a slave owner from VA< called slavery a “national sin”
Cotton Gin-More workers (slaves) needed
Cotton in demand
Demand  Cotton
Demand  Slaves
Cotton: South’s most important crop
1790:700,000 enslaved
1860: 4 million enslaved

5. Resistance to Slavery Nat Turner: Led rebellion against slave owners
Results: More laws, fewer rights for slaves
What role does money play in slavery and the onset of the Civil War?

6. North and South North South Economy: farming CHANGING
Cities and factories
Textiles, shoes, tools, other goods
Fewer than ½ farmers by 1860
Economy: agricultural, farming
Plantations
Crops: corn, raised cattle and pigs

7. The Tariff Disagreement Tariff: a tax on imported goods
Congress passed high tariffs on goods made outside the country
Purpose: to help American manufacturing
Helped the _____________
Angered the ____________: steel and cloth became more expensive

8. Political Cartoon

9. States’ Rights John C. Calhoun argued against tariffs
South Carolina
Vice President in 1828
Argued for states’ rights
The idea that states, not the federal government, should make the final decisions about matters that affect them
Believed tariffs should be vetoed by states

10. Sectionalism Slavery, tariffs, economic issues Sectionalism increases
Loyalty to one part of the county