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3 Explain the reasons for South Carolinas secession from the Union, including the abolitionist movement and the concept of states rights.

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-agriculture: the work of producing crops.

Barbados

South Carolinas agricultural economy became dependent on slavery. This was the result of the English settlers from Barbados who introduced the institution of slavery.
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The invention of the cotton gin intensified or strengthened the institution of slavery. Cotton could be cleaned faster so they could grow more. The more they grew, the more slaves were needed to take care of it.

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As a result..
A way of life was established and defended by the elite class who profited greatly from the use of slaves. Cotton production brought prosperity to the state. Although many South Carolinians did not own slaves, slavery became accepted by almost all South Carolinians as an integral part of life in the state. Slavery was defended by the middle class, who aspired to one day achieve the status of the elites and also by lower class whites who felt some measure of superiority to the enslaved African Americans.

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Who would think slavery is an integral part of the agricultural way of life?

During the antebellum period, the concept of slavery became a topic of national discussion. Some believed the practice to be an immoral one. Some felt it to be and integral part of the agricultural way of life. Some agreed with both.

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Summarize
In your notebooks, summarize what you have just learned in at least 3 complete sentences. Share your summary with your neighbor. Predict: What do you think will happen to this way of life? In your notebooks write your predictionI predict that this way of life ________________________ ________________________
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Abolish
A movement to abolish slavery throughout he United States began to grow. Abolitionism was seen by South Carolinians as a threat to their way of life. Abolitionists spoke out against slavery in speeches and newspapers. South Carolina refused to allow abolitionist newspapers to be mailed into the state.

Abolish means: to get rid of something, to do away with it.

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The purpose of the abolitionist movement was to outlaw slavery throughout the United States. South Carolinians feared that the abolitionist would cause slave revolts and did not welcome them in the state.

What would an abolitionists newspaper say? Who would benefit from this paper being read?

Who would benefit from this newspaper?

Why would this newspaper be allowed to be read in SC and not the other?
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 South Carolinians who spoke out against slavery were often vilified, talked very badly about, and not accepted by society. Some abolitionists, such as the Grimke sisters, were forced to leave SC. Abolitionists also provided resting places for escaping slaves along the Underground Railroad.

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The Grimke sisters were abolitionists from South Carolina. They were forced to leave because of their views on slavery.

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 The Underground Railroad was not very effective in SC because the state was too far from the border with the North and even farther from Canada. Escaped slaves often continued their journey all the way to Canada because they were not safe from recapture in the North because most Northerners were not abolitionists. The abolitionist movement was effective in SC making slave owners more determined to defend the right to own slaves.

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The argument over slavery reached a climax, boiling point, when the North and the South disagreed on whether or not slavery should be allowed to expand to the western territories. South Carolina was afraid that if more states joined the Union as free states, the slave states would be out numbered by the more populated free states.

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In the House of Representatives the number of representatives is based on population.

In the Senate there are 2 senators from each state.

Lets ANALYZE these statements and SYNTHESIZE for better understanding!!!

South Carolina worried that the free states would have more representation in the government and change the laws to end slavery as a result of national legislation.

States Rights

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The concept of states rights was an idea that each state had the right to decide whether or not to obey national laws. This theory of state rights supported the notion that only the SC legislature had the right to make decisions about slavery, or any other issue, in the state and that the state could defy national laws with which it disagreed thus making them null and void within that state.

John C. Calhoun a senator from South Carolina supported the states rights to make their own laws.

What do you think SC will choose to do about slavery? Turn and discuss with your neighbor.

During his campaign for the presidency, Abraham Lincoln proposed to halt the spread of slavery to the territories but he was not an abolitionist.

Lincoln did not advocate ending slavery in SC and the rest of the South.

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 When Lincoln won the election of 1860, South Carolinians believed that, despite his claims to not end slavery, he would indeed seek to abolish the practice of slavery freeing their slaves.

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Secede means "to break away"

As a result, SC decided to secede from the Union in order to preserve their cultural and economic way of life.
The secession of SC and the other southern states was an attempt to hold on to the way of life base upon slavery and defended their action with the argument of state rights.

What country did these southern states form?

Why did SC secede from the Union?

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Analyze and Infer: What do you think will be a result of the disagreement between slavery and the beginning of the Confederate States of America?