January 19 2010
missjcoke@hotmail.com – jahrusha
American Civil War ( 1861-65)
¼ dead of total participants
Industrialization ( economic expansion resulted in labour)
Westward expansion (railroad)
Slavery ( expanded profit)
To put this in
1776----- 1861
4million---31million
13 states- 33 states
Slavery
•Began in 1619 by 1776 ( 1/6 of the population were slaves)
•North controlled trade ( controlled most of the labour and distributed to the North)
•North abolish slave trade 1808
•South : Tobacco ( virginaia)
•Rice ( south Carolina)
•Sugar
•Cotton ( cotton gain 1790)
•By 1861, the supply of 90% Europe cotton came from 50% of US exports
•North America 1619
•Comprimises of 1850 ( Fugitive slave law, between the n and south, if you fled
from the south to the north you were given back to the south)
•95% of blacks in the south rep 1/3 of the southern total population
•5% blacks in North= 1% total north pop
•Abolition = several defn ( immediate end to slavery , gradual , propertized,
segregation, voting/ rep)
•Civil war context (1861-1865)
•States vs. federal rights
•Slavery extension territories) ( as American econ grew slave labour grew as well )
•Possible Abolition vs econ
•Slavery ends 1865
•Civil war isn’t really about slavery, over individual sate authority over federal
authority
Black Leaders+ Movements
•Booker T. Washington ( 1856-1908)