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&Civil War Map Activities Packet

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Packet Page NumberingNumber the Pages

Start with 1Include First (front) Page and all Blank Pages

Secession

The Slave Power of the SouthWhat role did the South play in American

politics up to the Civil War?

How were they so dominant?

Who Were the Slave Power of the South?Open Civil War Packet to Page 7 & 8

Looking at the maps, what do you see in regards to population, slaves and proportion of slave owners

The Southern Slave PowerIf you own 5 or more

slaves, how much land might you own?

What if you owned 100? 500 or more?

The Southern Slave PowerThe wealthy elite of

the South

Large Plantation owners

Also ran the governments

What is Secession?Open packet to page

12

Secede - to withdraw formally from an alliance, federation, or association, as from a political union, a religious organization, etc.

Was it Legal?Open Text Book to page 233 The Constitution

Scan Article VII Is there any way out?

“These United States”

Why did the South Secede?

Who Seceded?The Southern Slave Power

Not the poor whites, not enslaved African Americans, not free African Americans

How do you think they persuaded the average Southerner to support secession?

Secession TimelineOpen packet to page 12

South Carolina Secedes 1stSouth Carolina Secession Ordinance      AN ORDINANCE to dissolve the union between the

State of South Carolina and other States united with her under the compact entitled "The Constitution of the United States of America.“

We, the people of the State of South Carolina, in convention assembled, do declare and ordain, and it is hereby declared and ordained, That the ordinance adopted by us in convention on the twenty-third day of May, in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and eighty-eight, whereby the Constitution of the United States of America was ratified, and also all acts and parts of acts of the General Assembly of this State ratifying amendments of the said Constitution, are hereby repealed; and that the union now subsisting between South Carolina and other States, under the name of the "United States of America," is hereby dissolved.

Done at Charleston the twentieth day of December, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty.

Map ActivityComplete Civil War Map Activity # 1 in the

Civil War Map Activity Packet

HomeworkIn the Back of Packet

Number the 10 Primary Source (Eyewitness to History) Articles 1 – 11

Read Article Number 1 Be Sure to check out page 13 in your packet Create a visual of what you read.