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    The document discusses the introduction and expansion of slavery in the Americas following European colonization. It notes that slavery was first introduced by the Spanish in the West Indies after 1492 and then expanded by the Spanish and Portuguese to Central and South America as indigenous peoples died off. The first recorded introduction of African slaves to what would become the United States was in 1619 with the settlement of Jamestown, where 20 slaves were purchased. The triangular trade system developed, transporting slaves from Africa to the West Indies and bringing sugar and other goods to New England and Europe for profit.

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    The document discusses the introduction and expansion of slavery in the Americas following European colonization. It notes that slavery was first introduced by the Spanish in the West Indies after 1492 and then expanded by the Spanish and Portuguese to Central and South America as indigenous peoples died off. The first recorded introduction of African slaves to what would become the United States was in 1619 with the settlement of Jamestown, where 20 slaves were purchased. The triangular trade system developed, transporting slaves from Africa to the West Indies and bringing sugar and other goods to New England and Europe for profit.

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    The document discusses the introduction and expansion of slavery in the Americas following European colonization. It notes that slavery was first introduced by the Spanish in the West Indies after 1492 and then expanded by the Spanish and Portuguese to Central and South America as indigenous peoples died off. The first recorded introduction of African slaves to what would become the United States was in 1619 with the settlement of Jamestown, where 20 slaves were purchased. The triangular trade system developed, transporting slaves from Africa to the West Indies and bringing sugar and other goods to New England and Europe for profit.

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    •Slavery introduced by the Spanish

    into the West Indies after Columbus’s


    discovery of America.
    •Spanish and Portuguese expanded
    African slavery into Central and South
    American after enslaved Indians
    Slaves captured in Africa
    began dying off.
    •In 1619, the first recorded
    introduction of African slaves into
    what would become the United States
    was in the settlement of
    Jamestown……Only 20 slaves were
    purchased….

    Slaves aboard ship—Middle Passage


    The Triangular Trade
    • New England merchants gain access to slave
    trade in the early 1700s
    1. Rum brought to Africa, exchanges for slaves
    2. Ships cross the Middle Passage, slaves trades
    in the West Indies.
    • Disease, torture, malnourishment, death for slaves
    3. Sugar brought to New England
    • Other items trades across the Atlantic, with
    substantial profits from slavery making
    merchants rich
    Manufactured Goods

    •Furniture From
    •Clothing England to
    •Colonials had
    Colonies
    not factories.
    This is called the
    Middle Passage
    -NATIONALISM
    -THE ANTI-SLAVERY MOVEMENT
    -THE AMERICAN DREAM
    Missouri Compromise
    Sectionalism
    The Industrial North

    • The Industrial Revolution (mid-1700s to mid-1800s) included the birth of modern


    industry and the social changes that accompanied industrial growth.
    • The Revolution began in the British textile industry when inventors created water-
    powered and steam-powered weaving machines.
    • The steam engine was crucial to the British Industrial Revolution, mostly due to
    improvements James Watt made late in the century.
    • The British made laws to prevent their knowledge of these industrial machines from
    spreading, but Samuel Slater violated those laws by building a textile mill in Rhode
    Island, launching the Industrial Revolution in America.
    • By 1810 there were more than 60 textile mills in New England.
    • Industrialization led to urbanization, as the percentage of the population who lived in
    cities doubled within 30 years.
    Cotton and the South
    The Cotton Revolution Slavery Spreads
    • Eli Whitney’s cotton gin, which separated • Even with the use of the cotton gin,
    the seeds from the usable parts of the farming cotton required a large number of
    cotton, made large-scale cotton workers.
    production possible. • The first cotton farms were small and
    • The cotton gin was simple, but had a didn’t use enslaved African Americans, but
    major impact on life in the South wealthier farmers soon bought huge
    plantations and needed additional workers.
    – The booming textile industry in the
    North bought cotton to weave into • Planters knew that the more enslaved
    cloth that was sold to Americans. African Americans they used, the more
    valuable cotton they could grow.
    – The British Industrial Revolution
    raised the demand for cotton, making • Between 1810 and 1840 the number of
    Southern cotton very valuable to enslaved African Americans in the U.S.
    grow. more than doubled to 2.5 million.
    Anti-Slavery Efforts in the South

    • Some African Americans in the South were freemen, or African Americans who had been
    emancipated.
    • These men and women faced legal and social discrimination, yet still played a large role in
    anti-slavery activities.
    • Many freemen helped enslaved people escape, and many bravely spoke out for freedom for
    all African Americans.
    • In 1831 the deadliest slave uprising in American history took place. Nat Turner and his
    accomplices killed dozens of whites before the uprising was put down by a local militia.
    • Other enslaved African Americans chose to attempt escape, trying to reach the free states of
    the North, Canada, or Mexico.

    • Over the years, a constantly changing network of escape routes


    developed called the Underground Railroad. Sympathetic whites and
    freemen provided help to escaping slaves. Harriet Tubman, who
    escaped slavery herself, helped many on their journey to freedom.
    The Abolition Movement in the North
    • The number of enslaved people trying to escape increased in the
    1830s, possibly encouraged by an anti-slavery movement in the
    Northern states.
    • The Second Great Awakening’s focus on morality caused many
    Northerners to see slavery as wrong and ungodly.
    • Many joined reform societies to stop slavery

    • 1833: William Lloyd • Many abolitionists • Frederick


    Garrison founded were women. Douglass, who
    the American Anti-
    • Sarah and Angela escaped slavery,
    Slavery Society.
    Grimké, daughters was a leading
    • It was the first of a Southern abolitionist.
    group to call for an slaveholder, were
    immediate end to • He published an
    abolitionists.
    U.S. slavery. 1845 biography,
    • They moved to the
    Narrative of the
    • In five years, had North to support
    over 1,500 chapters abolition and Life of Frederick
    in the North. women’s rights. Douglass.
    The American Civil War

    • Over time, the Northern and Southern states developed different ways of
    life. 16
    • The South had an
    SOUT NORT agricultural
    economy based on

    H H growing cotton
    which depended on
    the labour of
    Economy based on enslaved African
    Economy based on manufacturing
    agricultural economy Americans.
    economy and free
    and slave labour. labour. • In the North,
    industries created a
    manufacturing
    Large cities suffering economy and many
    rapid urbanization . Northerners wanted
    Mainly rural and few Massive immigration
    immigrants. improved the to abolish slavery as
    economy. they thought slavery
    was wrong.

    • Thousands of slaves escaped to the North for freedom. However in


    1860, one third of the total population of slaves was not free. 17
    The American Civil
    War
    • In 1860, Abraham Lincoln, an opponent of slavery was
    elected president “a house divided against itself
    cannot stand ,” he said, “This government cannot
    endure permanently half-slave and half-free”.
    • The American Civil War, War of Secession or War Between States, was fought since 1861 until
    1865 in the Unites States between the Northern States, who were against slavery and the 11
    Southern states who were pro-slavery.
    • Eleven southern states left the United States and formed the Confederate States of America.
    Fighting began between this group and the United States in April 1861. That marked the start of
    the American Civil War.

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    19
    CONFEDERATE STATES
     After Lincoln won the election of 1860, the Southern States issued their “ Declaration of the Causes of
    Secession”, giving the reason why they were separating from the Union. They believed that Lincoln was
    anti-slavery and in favor of Northern interests. They felt that they were losing representation so they seceded
    from the Union, forming the Confederate States. Their president was Jefferson Davis.

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    ROBERT EDWARD LEE
    WAS AN AMERICAN
    GENERAL KNOWN FOR
    COMMANDING THE
    CONFEDERATE ARMY

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    EFFECTS AND CONSEQUENCES OF THE WAR
     The war ended after four years with the Northern victory.

     Emancipation Proclamation – On January 1st,1 863,president Lincoln declared


    all slaves liberated and free.

     Deaths – The Civil War was by far the deadliest war in American history. Well
    over 600 000 people died.

     Reconstruction – The period of time after the Civil War is known as


    Reconstruction. During this difficult era, the Southern states were gradually
    admitted back into the Union and the areas destroyed during the war were
    rebuilt.

     Lincoln’s Death – Five days after he won the war he was murdered in a theatre
    with a shot on his head by John Wilkes Booth.

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    THE END

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