Transcript Social Studies Unit 2 - Swedesboro

Social Studies
Unit 3
Lesson 1
Progress As A State
What Are We Going to Learn?
 How did the issue of slavery affect New Jersey?
 How did New Jersey grow and change in the early
twentieth century?
 How did New Jerseyans meet challenges during difficult
times?
 How had New Jersey changed by the end of the 1900s?
Lesson 1 Vocabulary
 emancipate To free enslaved people
 Underground Railroad-
 A system of secret routes
Lesson 1 Vocabulary
 Civil war War between two groups in the same
country
 Slave state States where slavery was allowed
 Free state States where slavery was against the law
Lesson 1 Vocabulary
 secede To leave
 Border state A state located between the North and
South; allowed slavery but did not secede
Lesson 1
How did the issues of slavery affect
New Jersey?
Fighting Slavery
 African Americans had been forced into
slavery for a long time.
 Around the 1800’s the people that wanted
to end slavery gained popularity.
 Abolitionists in New Jersey freed enslaved
people (emancipate)
Underground Railroad
 NJ abolitionists helped slaves escape on the
Underground Railroad.
 Routes led to: Canada- slavery was against
the law there
 Along their journey, slaves were helped by
conductors (people against slavery)
 Station- place where many runaway slaves
hid
Underground Railroad
 William Still- ran a station in Philadelphia
 Abigail Goodwin- abolitionist and Quaker
from New Jersey
 Harriet Tubman- escape slave, risked her life
as conductor
 1832-worked for a hotel in Cape May.
Used the money to help people on the
Underground Railroad.
Question Time!
 What was the Underground Railroad?
 BRAINPOP!-UNDERGROUND RAILROAD
North & South
 1861- Civil War between North and South
over slavery
 Southern states- slave states
 Northern states- free states
The Civil War Begins
 1860- Abraham Lincoln was elected President.
 Lincoln was against slavery
 Many southerners thought Lincoln would end
slavery, and because of this they seceded (left)
the United States and formed their own country
called the “Confederate States of America”
 Border States (allowed slavery but DID NOT
secede): Delaware, Maryland, Kentucky, and
Missouri
The Civil War Begins cont.
 Lincoln believed in the “Union” and hoped the
Southern states would return to the Union
(USA) in peace.
 April 12, 1861- Confederate troops fired on
Fort Sumter in South Carolina
 CIVIL WAR HAD BEGUN!!
New Jerseyans in the Civil War
 70,000 New Jerseyans fought in the Civil War.
 3,000 were African American
 1863- Battle of Gettysburg in Pennsylvania
 Confederate Army retreated, and war was in
Union’s favor
 April 9, 1865- Confederate General E. Lee
surrendered to Union General Ulyssess S.
Grant at Appomattox Court House in VA.
Civil War was over.
Question Time!
 How did the Civil War affect New
Jersey?
BRAINPOP!!-CIVIL WAR CAUSES
BRAINPOP!!-CIVIL WAR
Lesson Review
2. How did the issue of slavery affect New
Jersey?
3. Why do you think New Jersey had so many
stations on the Underground Railroad?
Important People

William Still
Abigail Goodwin
Important People
Harriet Tubman
Abraham Lincoln