discuss: can you think of inventions that have hindered or worsened the world? today, i will be...
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14 May 2015 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.
1820: No slavery above 36 30’Maine free state; Missouri slave state
Our country after the War with Mexico (Mexican Cession)
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.
Kansas/Nebraska Act: Nebraska split into 2 territories: Both territories would exercise popular sovereignty
Popular Sovereignty
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.
Live and Die by agriculture
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.
Economic Dependency
Read the quotation on page 387