The antebellum period
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The 30 year period prior to the American Civil War. C. Bishop EdD
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The antebellum period
- 1. The Antebellum Era The Road to Civil War
- 25. Early slave rebellions like the one by Nat Turner , a Virginia slave, in 1831, caused extreme fear and suspicion among Southern slaveholders. Fifty-five whites were murdered.
- 34. What? Back to Africa? Nope. Just above something called the Mason-Dixon line . If a slave could get north of that line, they would be “free”.
- 36. Follow the “drinking gourd”. Also called the Big Dipper. Pointed North
- 38. Levi and Catharine Coffin
- 50. Uncle Tom’s Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe Southern slaves were depicted in a wide manner of ways. Primarily as an object of pity.
- 51. Uncle Tom’s Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe Stowe’s main character becomes someone you feel sorry for and care about. Then she brutally murders him off in a shocking way.
- 52. Especially when he puts a move on the beautiful, young slave-girl he’s just purchased. The evil slave owner, Simon Legree , is someone everyone would cheerfully love to kill.
- 62. 36°30´
- 64. 1845 Texas asks to join the USA as a “slave” state.
- 67. Even though America lost this battle, we eventually won the war and acquired Texas.
- 68. For a while, all is calm.
- 69. California Gold Rush , 1849 Near modern-day Sacramento, employees of John Sutter discovered gold while building a mill. Word spread around the world, and within one year , California had such a large population, they were applying for statehood.
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- 88. John Brown has been called the catalyst of the Civil War. What is a catalyst?
- 90. John Brown’s Raid, 1859
- 92. Brown is hunted down and captured by a daring young soldier, Robert E. Lee , of Virginia.
- 98. The dogs on both sides are awake and snarling!
- 104. On December 20, 1860, (one month after the election of Lincoln) South Carolina seceded from the Union. Why? Over Slavery?
- 105. Was the Civil War really only about slavery? Take a look at this graph…
- 108. White Class Structure in the South, 1860
- 115. The Missouri Compromise, 1820
- 117. The Mexican Cession, 1848
- 119. The Compromise of 1850
- 121. Kansas-Nebraska Act
- 123. The Election of 1860
- 125. The 11 Confederate States of America The 20 United States of America