1 / 13

Learning goals: Explain the effect of the cotton gin on slavery in the South. Describe the daily

PLANTATIONS AND SLAVERY. JOURNAL QUESTION. Learning goals: Explain the effect of the cotton gin on slavery in the South. Describe the daily life and culture of African Americans in the South in the mid-1800s.

clarencejuarez
Download Presentation

Learning goals: Explain the effect of the cotton gin on slavery in the South. Describe the daily

An Image/Link below is provided (as is) to download presentation Download Policy: Content on the Website is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use and may not be sold / licensed / shared on other websites without getting consent from its author. Content is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use only. Download presentation by click this link. While downloading, if for some reason you are not able to download a presentation, the publisher may have deleted the file from their server. During download, if you can't get a presentation, the file might be deleted by the publisher.

E N D

Presentation Transcript

  1. PLANTATIONS AND SLAVERY JOURNAL QUESTION Learning goals: • Explain the effect of the cotton gin on slavery in the South. • Describe the daily life and culture of African Americans in the South in the mid-1800s. • Journal Prompt:If you had escaped from slavery, would you go back to help people whom you don’t know? What about friends or family? Explain your answer.

  2. PLANTATIONS AND SLAVERY • 1. The cotton gin was invented by Eli Whitney. He also invented interchangeable parts for guns.

  3. PLANTATIONS AND SLAVERY Farmers in the South grew more cotton and stopped growing other crops and raising as many animals • 2. The cotton gin changed the South by encouraging Southerners to grow more cotton.

  4. PLANTATIONS AND SLAVERY Think-Pair-Share Why is cotton an important crop? Share your answer with a neighbor. Think of a way to advertise the cotton gin.

  5. PLANTATIONS AND SLAVERY A dancer from Africa. Slaves had a distinct culture based on their lifestyle from Africa. • 3. It became illegal to bring in slaves from Africa in 1808. Yet, the enslaved population in the South more than doubled between 1810 and 1840.

  6. PLANTATIONS AND SLAVERY • 4. About half of the enslaved people in the south worked on plantations and the others worked as domestic servants, skilled craftsmen, factory hands, and day laborers.

  7. PLANTATIONS AND SLAVERY • 5. One of the cruelest parts of slavery was the sale of family members.

  8. PLANTATIONS AND SLAVERY Think-Pair-Share • What are some of the hardest things about being a slave? • Describe the plantation where a slave lives. How is the slave’s house different from the master’s?

  9. PLANTATIONS AND SLAVERY • 6. Nat Turner, Denmark Vessey, and Gabriel Prosser are names of slaves that rebelled against their masters.

  10. PLANTATIONS AND SLAVERY 7. Daily life and culture of for African Americans in the South in the mid-1800s hard. They had long, hard days on the plantation, religion was key, they took comfort in family life when allowed to work together.

  11. PLANTATIONS AND SLAVERY Think-Pair-Share How do you think Nat Turner’s uprising affected the lives of southern slaves who did not take part in the uprising?

  12. PLANTATIONS AND SLAVERY • 8. The songs in which enslaved people of the South expressed their religious beliefs or passed coded messages were called spirituals.

More Related