Virginia
Social Studies
Life as a Louisiana Slave
09/08/2014 10:56 AM
Ages: 9, 10
Northern states wanted the new states created out of the western territories to be “free states,” while the southern states wanted the new states to be “slave states.”
Virginia
Social Studies
Life as a Louisiana Slave
09/08/2014 10:56 AM
Ages: 10, 11
Southern states that were dependent upon labor-intensive cash crops seceded from the Union. Northernmost slave states (border states) and free states stayed in the Union.
Virginia
Social Studies
Life as a Louisiana Slave
09/08/2014 10:56 AM
Ages: 11, 12
African Americans also faced discrimination and violence in the North and Midwest.
Virginia
Social Studies
Life as a Louisiana Slave
09/08/2014 10:56 AM
Ages: 14, 15, 16, 17
The United States and Britain outlawed the slave trade and then slavery.
Virginia
Social Studies
Life as a Louisiana Slave
09/08/2014 10:56 AM
Ages: 14, 15, 16, 17
Women and children entering the workplace as cheap labor
Virginia
Social Studies
Life as a Louisiana Slave
09/08/2014 10:56 AM
Ages: 14, 15, 16, 17
Slave revolts in Virginia, led by Nat Turner and Gabriel Prosser, fed white Southerners’ fears about slave rebellions and led to harsh laws in the South against fugitive slaves. Southerners who favored abolition were intimidated into silence.
Virginia
Social Studies
Life as a Louisiana Slave
09/08/2014 10:56 AM
Ages: 14, 15, 16, 17
Northerners, led by William Lloyd Garrison, publisher of The Liberator, increasingly viewed the institution of slavery as a violation of Christian principles and argued for its abolition. Southerners grew alarmed by the growing force of the Northern response to the abolitionists.
Virginia
Social Studies
Life as a Louisiana Slave
09/08/2014 10:56 AM
Ages: 14, 15, 16, 17
Fugitive slave events pitted Southern slave owners against outraged Northerners who opposed returning escaped slaves to bondage.
Virginia
Social Studies
Life as a Louisiana Slave
09/08/2014 10:56 AM
Ages: 14, 15, 16, 17
Northern abolitionists versus Southern defenders of slavery
Virginia
Social Studies
Life as a Louisiana Slave
09/08/2014 10:56 AM
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Ages: 14, 15, 16, 17
Although slavery ended, African- Americans did not achieve full equality during the next 100 years.