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Chapter 12, Lesson 1 Social Studies (Grade 5) Lecture Notes for 02/03/2014 to 02/07/2014 Mr. Haywood
Objective
O (3c) Critique the
development and impact of slavery in North America, including the causes, conditions, and effects on enslaved Africans in North America. (DOK 3)
Determine two or more main ideas of a text and explain how they are supported by key details; summarize the text.
Vocabulary
O Sectionalism: Regional loyalty
O Tariff: a tax O States Rights: The idea that
the states, not the federal government, should have the final authority over their own affairs.
Vocabulary
O Free State: Did not allow
O As
the United States expanded its border in the first half of the 1800s, strong differences developed among the various regions.
became a serious problem in 1828, when Congress set a high tariff, or tax, on some imports. O The tariff helped the North because most of the nations factories were located there. O However, it did little to help the South, which remained mostly an agricultural region.
of their cash crops to businesses in Europe. O In return, they bought many European manufactured goods. O Southerners generally opposed the tariff because they did not like having to pay higher prices for those goods.
President, and John C. Calhoun of South Carolina became Vice President. O Calhoun argued against the tariff. He believed in states rights. O Although President Jackson was known to support states rights, he still believed that the federal government had the constitutional right to collect the tariff.
over slavery since the writing of the Constitution. O Settlers from the North did not want slavery in the new western lands. Most Northerners thought that slavery should go no further than where it already was the South. O Most Southern slave owners believed that they had the right to to take their slaves wherever they wanted.
would be allowed to join the Union as a slave state. Maine, which had also asked to become a state, would join as a free state. O Henry Clay worked toward a compromise called the Compromise of 1850. He became known as the Great Compromiser. O Under the Kansas-Nebraska Act, voters there decided whether or not to allow slavery.
Scott his freedom because Chief Justice Roger B. Taney said that slaves had none of the rights and privileges of American citizens.