1 / 16

Bellwork Question

Bellwork Question. Date: 10/19/09 Essential Question: How did individuals respond to discrimination? What was one of the first social networking sites? Think about it and come up with an answer. IDK is not acceptable. Review. Causes of Slavery Triangular Trade

lilian
Download Presentation

Bellwork Question

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. Bellwork Question • Date: 10/19/09 • Essential Question: How did individuals respond to discrimination? • What was one of the first social networking sites? Think about it and come up with an answer. IDK is not acceptable.

  2. Review • Causes of Slavery • Triangular Trade • Sugar Plantations in the Caribbean • Rum • African slavery • Feeling of Superiority for the poor white man • Economical: Plantation Society

  3. Review - How did government respond to issues of slavery? • 3/5ths Compromise • Called for slave trade to end by 1808 • Allowed states to count their slaves as 3/5ths of a person for voting purposes (means they’re property) • Showed the country would establish a pattern of compromising instead of deciding major issues • 1820 (Missouri Compromise) • Missouri was admitted as slave • Maine was admitted as free • 36’ 30 line was drawn through Louisiana Territory to determine free & slave states

  4. Review - How did government respond to issues of slavery? • 1850 Compromise • Fugitive Slave Act • Ca. as free • Popular Sovereignty in new states • Kansas Nebraska Compromise (1854) • Bleeding Kansas

  5. Review - How did people respond to discrimination? • Work slow downs • Revolts • John Brown & Harpers Ferry • Dred Scott V. Sandford • Slaves are property and the US government cannot tell people how to control their property

  6. New - How did people respond to discrimination? • Underground Railroad • Background • Did the most to intensify strife btw North& South • “When free blacks & whites undertook systematically to wreak havoc on an institution that meant so much to the South, it was almost too much for the South to bear” ~From Slavery to Freedom • What is it? • Secret organization of pathways, tunnels & social networks utilized to help slaves escape the South • The first Facebook!

  7. Origin Not known for sure, but think it began in 1804 General Thomas Boude (officer in the Revolution) purchased a slave, Stephen Smith, and brought him home to Columbia, PA Smith’s mother escaped to look for him Boudes took her in Within a few weeks the woman who owned Smith’s mother arrived &demanded her property Boudes refused to surrender her & the town supported them By 1819 Underground efforts were in place to get slaves out of North Carolina Underground Railroad

  8. Name Underground Railroad was coined shortly after 1831 when steamboats became popular. Again, don’t know for sure, but more popular supposed reason for this name surrounded a slave, Tice Davids, who escaped from his KY master in 1831 and got across the Ohio River The master was in hot pursuit but lost all trace of the slave after he crossed the river The master was so confused he declared that the slave must have “gone off on an underground railroad” Underground Railroad

  9. Underground Railroad • All operations took place at night • Slaves would take supplies from their masters & disguise themselves if necessary • Fair complexion slaves would pass as white people & sometimes masters • Darker ones posed as servants on their way to meet their owners sometimes even taking a white baby with them • At first, most fugitives were men & they were on foot • Later, when women & children were added, escorts & vehicles were provided • Sometimes people were shipped as cargo

  10. This photograph shows the "Freedom Stairway," the one hundred steps leading from the Ohio River to the John Rankin House in Ripley, a station on the Underground Railroad. John Rankin (1793-1886) was a Presbyterian minister and educator who devoted much of his life to the antislavery movement. The house has several secret rooms in which slaves were hidden. A light was placed in the window of the house to indicate that it was safe for slaves to approach. The John Rankin House is now a museum, part of the Ohio Historical Society's state-wide network of historic sites. Underground Railroad

  11. Underground Railroad • They typically traveled by land using the North Star, tributaries of the Ohio rivers & mountain chains • Stations were close together (10 - 20 miles apart) • During they day they would hide & word would be passed to the succeeding stations • “By to-morrow evening’s mail, you will receive two volumes of “The Irrepressible Conflict” found in black. After perusal, please forward and oblige.”

  12. Underground Railroad • All underground railroad lines led north. • Began in various plantations in the South & ran vaguely up rivers & valleys to some point on the Ohio, upper Mississippi River in the West, points in Pennsylvania & New Jersey • Once they reached the north they still had to be careful because of the Fugitive Slave Act & bounty hunters

  13. They needed $$ to keep this going. Harriet Tubman, would take several months off whenever she was running low in funds & hire herself out as a domestic servant to raise money She also demanded that once the slaves started, they continued. She threatened to shoot anyone who tried to turn back. Helped over 300 slaves escape Greatest conductor Due to fugitive slave law, went all the way to Canada Underground Railroad

  14. Underground Railroad • Most daring white conductor was John Fairfield. Son of a VA slaveholding family, he would have nothing to do with the institution & decided to move to a free state. • He helped a slave friend escape to Canada before he left. • News spread………whites of his community tried to arrest him and slaves tried to get his help to escape • He delivered slaves “on order”…..meaning blacks in the North & in Canada would give him money & a description of their friends/relatives. He would then find them, help them escape & deliver them. • His greatest triumph was organizing 28 slaves into a funeral procession • He was eventually killed during an insurrection of slaves

  15. Underground Railroad • Very nature of the institution make counting & $$ inaccurate but the estimates are • 100,000 slaves valued at over $30 million • Southerners also participated in the Underground Railroad (be careful of generalizations) • Considerable Southerners did not support slavery but…….were they the ones in power????? • Why did Slavery not end any sooner? • Everyone was afraid they would secede from the Union

  16. Let’s Visit • http://www.nationalgeographic.com/railroad/

More Related