Unit 5 Graphic Organizer #1
SS8H6: Antebellum
Antebellum
Antebellum: “before the war”
What was life like in the South
before the war?
• Only small number of
people lived this way.
• Small amount of people =
most amount of wealth.
• Agricultural based economy
because of climate.
• Independent lifestyle
Slavery
• Cotton was important to
south’s economy.
• Cheap labor was needed to
grow and clean cotton.
• Slavery was the cheap labor.
Slaves did resist:
• run away
• work slow
• damage tools
• pretending sick
Abolitionists
• Pushed to end slavery
• More abolitionists pushed, the
more southerners supported slavery
• Support fueled by slave revolts,
increase demand for cotton.
North vs South
Tensions grew between Northern states
and Southern states
• tariffs
• states’ rights
• expansion of slavery into western states
Nullification
• State can nullify or invalidate a law that
they see unconstitutional.
• Slap in the face to the U.S.
government/.
• GA did not jump on the nullification
bandwagon b/c they respected Pres.
Jackson’s removing of the Indians.
Missouri Compromise
• AKA: Compromise of 1820
Would Missouri be a free
state or a slave state?
• Came into Union as slave state.
• Maine admitted as a free slate.
State’s Rights
• Idea that federal government only has the • Slavery prohibited north of 36 30’
latitude.
powers in the Constitution. States have
rights that the U.S. cannot violate.
Balance of Power
• Balance number of slave states
and free states.
• For Noth/South to have = power, there had to
be an = number of slave states and free states.