6. what more than anything contributed to the increased sales of newspapers in the early 1800s?
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1. Machinery sales began to increase dramatically in the early-to-mid 1800s. Who purchased a majority of these finished products? 2. How did westward expansion impact mechanical and agricultural innovation? 3. How did McCormick help the North, and Whitney help the South? - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
1. Machinery sales began to increase dramatically in the early-to-mid 1800s. Who purchased a majority of these finished products?
2. How did westward expansion impact mechanical and agricultural innovation?
3. How did McCormick help the North, and Whitney help the South?
4. Concerning industrial progress, what was the American System?
5. What contributed to rising prosperity during the early-to-mid 1800s?
6. What more than anything contributed to the increased sales of newspapers in the early 1800s?
7. Who enjoyed the Minstrel shows the most?!
8. What did PT Barnum contribute to America?
9. Why did fiction take off as a literary genre during this time period?
10. Define Transcendentalism.
Chapter 12
Forced the South to rethink slaveryMany in Virginia began to wonder if
gradual emancipation would be a wise choice
Others begin to double down on the structural control of the institution
Nate Turner’s Rebellion
How did this happen?The South gradually expanded south and westIndian removal made this expansion easierBritish textile industry was a boom
King Cotton
Lower South was suited to the cultivation of cottonWet springs and summers, dry autumns
Cotton requires neither expensive irrigation canals nor costly machinery
Did not even require an abundance of slavesIn 1860 between 35-50% of cotton
farmers did not own slaves
The Lure of Cotton
However, southern slave population nearly doubled in the early 1800s, and cotton employed ¾ of all southern slaves
The numbers of growth grew togetherCotton was also compatible with the growing
of corn (planted and harvested before or after)
Acreage of corn in the South exceeded cottonThis did allow the South to be somewhat self
sufficient (money did not drain out of the region)
1. residents in the Lower had come from the Upper
2. all white southerners benefited from the 3/5 compromise
3. abolitionists clumped all southerner together
4. profitability of cotton and sugar increased the price of all slaves throughout the region
Ties between the Lower and Upper South
North continued to urbanize; the South continued to remain rural
South’s urban was ½ that of New England and the mid-Atlantic states
Why?Lack of industries (only 10% of U.S.
manufacturing)Industrial output was less than New
Hampshire’s
The North and South Diverge
Why?Southern factories were small and
produced for local marketsExamples: grain to flour; corn to meal; logs
to lumberIndustrial slavery scared Southerners
Too much independenceProblem of money, not labor
Give up slaves (status); cash crops were a “sure thing”
South also has an “education deficiency” Reluctance to tax propertyRejection of compulsory natureUnconvinced of the needLittle dependency on the written wordFew complex economic transactionsPlanters did not care for an educated poor
white workforce
The PlantersThe Small SlaveholdersThe YeomenThe People of the Pine Barrens
Social Groups of the South
Twenty+ slavesPlantations with a high level of division of
laborDomestic staff, pasture staff, outdoor artisans,
indoor artisans, and field handsPlanters vie with one another for stately
mansionsHowever the wealth is in the slaves ($1700
per slave)If one sells a slave, he gives up his prestigious
status
The Planters
Plantations were expensive with high fixed costs
Large plantation owners were often indebted to agents
Planters often moved and it disrupted their social connectionsThey coped by sometimes leaving the
plantations to overseers
Plantation mistresses had many responsibilities
Had to deal with the abundance of mulatto children
88% of all slaveholders owned fewer than 20 slaves; most fewer than 10
1 of every 5 slaves employed outside of agriculture
These slave holders were younger
The Small Slaveholders
Nonslaveholding family farmers – largest single group of southern whites
Most were landowners (50-200 acres) and did hire slaves at harvest time; most of their acreage was subsistence crops
Tended to settle in the upland regions (Piedmont, hill country)
Leading characteristic was self-sufficiency, with modest profit; most transactions took place within the community
The Yeomen
10% of southern whitesLived where they did by choiceThey were the evidence by northerners
that slavery degraded poor whitesHowever, they could feed themselves
where the urban poor could not
The People of the Pine Barrens
The Americans of the South are brave, comparatively ignorant, hospitable, generous, easy to irritate, violent in their resentment, without industry or the spirit of enterprise.Alexis de Tocqueville
Conflict and Consensus in the White South
Planters and urban commercial were Whig
Yeomen tended to be DemocratsThe four social groups tended to settle in
different regionsMore mingling in the Upper South than
the LowerWhites did not work for whites, so there
was a certain amount of independence
Conflict over SlaveryBetween 1830-60 slaveholders gained an
increasing proportion of the South’s wealthThe size of this class shrank to 25% from 36%
during that same timeSome southerners began supporting
reopening the slave trade to cash in on statusOthers took to Hinton Helper’s The
Impending Crisis of the SouthCalled on nonslaveholding class to end slavery
for their own self interest
Why not attack the institution?Hope to become a slaveholderAcceptance of racial assumptionsEmancipation meant a race war
The Proslavery ArgumentPositive good instead of a necessary evil
Ancient civilizations had itBetter than “wage slavery” of the North
Religious argument beganSt. Paul’s wordsAbolitionists were trying to destroy the family
Churches split into southern wingsThey provide the opportunity for Christian
responsibility
Violence of the Old SouthMurder rate was 10X higherSlavery helped create the violent white
southHonor and a sensitivity to ones
reputationDueling was a refined alternative to
random violence of the lower classesRecourse through the law struck many
as cowardly Gentlemen could recognize gentlemen
1700s and 1800s was different1700s- young, diverse regional origin,
mostly menSlave trade ended in 1808After that, male/female balance created
a native-born slave population
The Maturing of the Plantation System
Northern factory workers did not have drivers
White overseers and black driversAdvancement within slavery was the
goal for manyHouse slave often had disdain for the
field hands and poor whites
Work and Discipline of Plantation Slaves
Law provided neither recognition nor protection of the slave family
A slave could witness the sale of 11 family members
Marriage? Until death or distance do you part
Slaves created their own family morality
Fictive kin
The Slave Family
North America is #11. gender equalized more rapidly2. other crops, etc.
The Longevity, Diet, and Health of Slaves
Perennial shortage of white laborSlave or free, nonagricultural labor
was easier to find in the SouthNo immigrantsLure of cotton farming to poor whites
Slaves off Plantations
Free Blacks in the Old South