Class notes Unit 5: 1844 - 1865

Question 1

What is the antebellum period?

Answer 1

the time between the formation of the U.S. government and the outbreak of the American Civil War.

Question 2

effect on population??

Answer 2

Explosive population growth of enslaved African Americans between 1740 + 1860 → 600k to $ mil.

Question 3

Cause of population growth…

Answer 3

Market rev, new inventions like cotton gin + textile mills made slave labor much more profitable.

Question 4

Slavery in the south??

Answer 4

Slavery is not evenly geographical distributed across South.

Question 5

Population of slavery…

Answer 5

greater population in deep south (Both total numbers 2% of population) then more northerly Southern states.

Question 6

Slave ownership…

Answer 6

Slave ownership was relatively rare
—–> most white don’t “own” slaves
—–> very, very few have more than South.

Question 7

Why do whites fight for slavery?

Answer 7

Fear for econ collapse
——-> Competition of jobs and to buy land
-preserve higher social status
- Lost of political power

Question 8

End of slavery is a valid fear…

Answer 8

-Most of European nations have abolished slavery
-Successful revolt in Haiti.
-South and Central American nations ended slavery.