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Slavery and Pre-Civil War
Unit 6: Chapter 15-Section 1
Slavery in Texas
182,000 slaves in Texas in 1860
a.
i.
ii.
Prices varied…$100 to $2500 (= to about
$35,000 today)
Slaves didn’t have any rights…were
considered property
Only 5% of Texans owned
slaves…most were poor
b.
i.
They were simple farmers with large
families – kids provided labor
Slavery in Texas
c.
d.
e.
Most Texans defended slavery
because it benefitted Texas’s
agricultural economy
Planters – men who owned more
than 10 slaves
Plantations – large farms of 20 or
more slaves
Pre-Civil War
a.
From 1861 to 1865, more than
600,000 Americans were killed in
the Civil War. Of those, roughly
200,000 were killed in battle; the
rest died from disease. More men
died in this war than all other wars
we have fought combined!
Pre-Civil War
b. The Civil War is known by several
other names:
i.
ii.
iii.
iv.
War Between the States
North vs. South
Blues vs. Grays
Yankees vs. Rebels
* Union vs. Confederacy (include this
too!)
Pre-Civil War
c. Causes of the War (issues that divided
them)
i.
ii.
iii.
iv.
Tariffs
Land
States Rights
Slavery
d. Abolitionists were people who worked to
end slavery in the U.S.; in 1854,
Americans against the slavery formed
the Republican Party.
Pre-Civil War
e. Presidential Election of 1860
i.
ii.
iii.
iv.
Abraham Lincoln was the Republican
candidate
Southern leaders threatened to
secede, or withdraw, from the Union if
Lincoln won
The South feared he would abolish
slavery
Lincoln won the election and angered
the South
Pre-Civil War
f. Texas Secession Convention
i.
ii.
After many southern states seceded in
1861, the Texas legislature called a
convention to consider secession
Result? They approved an ordinance of
secession and joined the South
Pre-Civil War
g. Confederate States of America
(C.S.A.)
i.
ii.
At a southern convention in
Montgomery, Alabama, delegates
voted to form a new nation, the
Confederate States of America.
The new nation’s constitution gave
more power to the states and less to
the federal government.
Pre-Civil War
g. Confederate States of America
(C.S.A.)
iii. They also elected Jefferson Davis as
president.
iv. Meanwhile, in Texas, Governor Sam
Houston was removed from his post
because he refused to take the oath of
allegiance to the Confederacy; the
Secession Convention also declared his
office vacant.
Pre-Civil War
g. Confederate States of America
(C.S.A.)
v. U.S. President Lincoln believed the
Union was perpetual, or continuing
forever; and that the southern states
could not leave it.
h. The first battle of the Civil War
occurred at Fort Sumter, South
Carolina on April 12, 1861 which
resulted in a Confederate victory.