Slavery, Civil War and Abolition

Slavery, Civil War & Abolition

Unit 4 Chapter 2

​Essential Question: How was slavery abolished in the United States?

On your note taker, give the definition of the word unalienable.

Then list the 3 unalienable rights listed in the U.S. Constitution.

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Raise your hand if you can list the 4 main harships of slavery.

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​The issue of slavery

What is an abolitionist?

What is Abolition?

Multiple Choice

What does the word unalienable mean?

• Easily transferable
• Subject to change
• Capable of being surrendered
• Unable to be taken away or denied

Fill in the Blank

Because of the demand for ______, enslaved labor became even more important in the South.

Multiple Choice

What decision was made in 1808 regarding slavery in America?

• America was to grant freedom to all existing slaves.

• America was to expand the practice of slavery to new territories.

• America was to stop importing of slaves into the country.

Multiple Choice

What does it mean to abolish something?

• To temporarily suspend something
• To enhance or improve something
• To ignore or overlook something
• to end or stop something completely

Multiple Select

Select three ways abolitionists spread the word about evils of slavery

• Handing out pamphlets

• Public speaking

• Hanging posters in public places

• Promoting the benefits of slavery

unable to be taken away or denied.

Example: We all have the unalienable right to do what makes us happy as long as it doesn’t hurt anyone else.

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​Unalienable, adj

to end; to stop something completely

Example: Some members of the city council wanted to abolish taxes altogether

Abolition, n. (the process of ending)

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​Abolish, v.

a war between people who live in the same country

Example: A civil war was fought between the Union and the Confederacy in the 1860s.

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​Civil war, n.

the act of setting or being set free.

Example: The enslaved worker asked her slaveholder for emancipation.

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​Emancipation, n.

Our Unalienable Rights:

​Life

“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness.”

​Liberty

​Pursuit of Happiness

Poll

Who were the Founders talking about when they stated that “all men are created equal”?

• They were talking about African slaves.

• They were talking about white men only.

• They were talking about EVERY citizen.

Here is the TRUTH!

Even though delegates to the Constitutional Convention agreed that no new enslaved people would be brought into the United States, they did not agree to stop enslaving people or stop relying on slave labor. Children could still be born into slavery, and slaveholders could still buy and sell enslaved people.

Remember the 4 hardships!

4. They faced life-threatening conditions and were often separated from their families.

1. Forced to work without any form of payment

2. Mistreated
   

3. NOT seen as human beings with basic civil rights. (for example: They were unable to own land or vote in elections)
   

​Enslaved people were...

Multiple Choice

Why weren't enslaved people given unalienable rights?

• The system of slavery saw them as property rather than as human beings.

• They were not capable of understanding rights.

• They were considered too dangerous to be granted rights.

• They were happy with their situation.

The Framers of the Constitution included a clause that declared that three out of every five enslaved persons would be counted when determining the population of a state. This is called the Three-Fifths Clause or the Three-Fifths Compromise

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Three-fifths
Compromise

Multiple Choice

What was the three-fifths compromise mainly used for? (Use the image to answer)

• To establish voting rights for African Americans
• To determine the length of presidential terms
• To regulate trade between the North and South
• To determine how slaves would be counted for the purpose of taxation and representation in the United States.

The Hard work of Abolitionists

Multiple Choice

What was the name of William Garrison's newspaper?

• The Enslaver
• The Liberator
• The Oppressor
• The Subjugator

Multiple Choice

Who escaped slavery and became a public speaker and abolitionist alongside Willam Garrison?

• Sojourner Truth
• Booker T. Washington
• Frederick Douglass
• Harriet Tubman

Sojourner Truth was another important member of the abolitionist movement. Like Douglass, she had once been enslaved. She was born at the beginning of the nineteenth century and lived as a slave for a Dutch family in New York. She was sold several times and then escaped in 1826. A gifted speaker, she traveled across the country preaching about abolition. Truth met Douglass in Massachusetts around 1844 in a community founded by abolitionists. The community became a stop on the Underground Railroad, which you will read about next. Like Douglass, Truth also wrote a book about her time as a slave in the North. At first, the number of abolitionists was small. Only a few thousand people in the whole country bought The Liberator. Even in the North, where more people opposed slavery, abolitionists were not popular. That is because they wanted the country to completely abolish slavery—immediately. Abolitionists spoke at public meetings.

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Sorjourner Truth

Multiple Select

Select two facts about Sorjourner Truth.

• 1. She was born into slavery in 1797 and escaped to freedom in 1826.

• She was the first African American woman to become a senator
• She wrote a book about her life enslaved

• She wrote the Declaration of Independence

Harriet Tubman and...

Multiple Choice

How many trips did Harriet Tubman make to free southern slaves?

• 19
• 30
• 25
• 12

Multiple Choice

What regions did the Underground Railroad lead to?

• Northern states and parts of Southern Canada
• Midwestern states and parts of Northern Mexico
• Southern states and parts of Western Canada
• Western states and parts of Eastern Canada

Multiple Choice

Why was it called an "underground" railroad?

• It was a secret passage.

• It was located underground physically.
• It was only accessible to miners.
• It was a train that ran underground.

Conductors

• Helpers, or guides such as Harriet Tubman, were called conductors. The conductors had to think of all kinds of clever tricks to keep the slaves from getting caught. They traveled at night. They hid their “passengers” in attics and basements during the daytime. These safe spots were known as stations.

• The conductors also knew how to survive in the wilderness. They knew which plants and berries were safe to eat. They studied the stars in the sky to figure out the way north. When the sky was too cloudy to see the stars, the conductors would feel around the bottoms of trees. Moss usually grows on the north side of trees, and north was where they were going.

Fill in the Blank

• Helpers, or guides such as Harriet Tubman, were called __________.

Multiple Choice

Safe spaces that enslaved people could hide out until nightfall were called what?

• stations

• emancipation shelters
• liberty cabins
• freedom huts

Supporting Question:
Why did many southerner think of seceding from the United States?

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A House Divided

Multiple Choice

According to the text, what was the MAIN reason southern states disliked Abe Lincoln?

• His love for cats
• His preference for tea over coffee
• His dislike for wearing hats
• He opposed slavery.

Multiple Choice

What does the word 'secede' mean?

• To formally withdraw from membership

• To join a political or religious organization.

• To remain neutral in a conflict or dispute.

Union vs Confederacy

Multiple Choice

In total, how many southern states seceded from the U.S. following Abe Lincoln's presidency?

• 11
• 13
• 7
• 9

Multiple Choice

What was the name of the Northern state's soldiers?

• Union Army

  "Yankees"

• Troops of the South

• Southern Soldiers
• Confederate Army

Multiple Choice

What was the name of the Southern state's soldiers?

• Union Armey

• Rebels
• Bluecoats
• Confederate Army

  "Rebels"

​Freedom!

Fill in the Blank

The Emancipation Proclamation declared that all enslaved people of the South were legally ____.

Multiple Choice

Why is Juneteenth (6/19/1865) a holiday?

• To celebrate the founding of the United States
• To honor the discovery of America
• To mark the end of the Civil War
• To celebrate the freedom of ALL enslaved African Americans in the United States.

​Time to WIN!

Multiple Choice

Who did Lincoln appointed to take down Robert E. Lee's Confederate Army?

• George Washington
• Thomas Jefferson
• Andrew Jackson
• Ulysses S. Grant

​Time to make things RIGHT!

Multiple Choice

What did the 13th Amendment declare?

• Slavery and involuntary servitude shall exist only in the southern states
• The 13th Amendment declared the right to own slaves
• The 13th Amendment declared that slavery is a fundamental right
• Slavery shall not exist within the United States, except as a punishment for a crime.