This document provides an overview of a lesson plan on race and slavery in the United States in 1850. It includes assignments for students such as writing questions, analyzing images, and predicting statistics related to slavery. Key points covered include the percentage of southerners and Americans who owned slaves, what slave life was like on plantations, and efforts of the abolitionist movement. Students are asked to consider proposals to end slavery and to pretend they are congressmen debating these issues in 1859. The document concludes with a reading on the Civil War and options for an extra credit assignment.

1. Day 5 Race & Slavery
Let’s review for the test today
One paper per group
In your groups write 10-15 questions starting with
“How…” or “Why…” and your state across the top

2. Day 5 Race & Slavery
Assignment #1
1.OPTIC on this image
2.Do you think a person should be
allowed to sell themselves into
slavery for a certain time period?

3. Title: “The Man who won the elephant at
the raffle” – New York Newspaper 1863
3. OPTIC on this
image

4. 4. Predict percentage of Southerners do you think owned slaves in
1850?
5. Predict percentage of Americans do you think owned slaves in 1850?

6. Slavery in 1850
• 347,525 slave owners
• 6,184,477 white southerners
• 23,191,876 total Americans
• Percentage of slave owners
• 347,525/6184477 = 0.056
• 0.056 X 100 = 5.6 % Southerners owned slaves
• 347525/23191876 = 0.14
• 0.014 X 100 = 1.4 % Americans owned slaves
Source Otto H. Olsen & US 1850 census

7. Slavery in 1850
• Average slave cost $6,000 (2014 =
$85,000)
• Average slave owner owned 5 or
more slaves

9. What were slaves doing?
• Plantation life
• House work
• Field work (cotton)
• Some treated ok
• Rules:
– No education
– No guns
– No marriage
– No last names
– Only church

11. How to end slavery?
Slaveholders are wealthy & powerful
5 of 9 judges from slaveholding families
“The American Way!”

12. Let’s play trial again
• Nat Turner page 286
• John Brown page 332 & 334-5

13. Abolitionist Movement
• Worked to Abolish slavery in US
• OR leave United States

14. Uncle Tom’s Cabin
• 1852
• Harriet Beecher Stowe

15. Abolitionist Movement
Fredrick Douglass John BrownWilliam Lloyd Garrison
Thousands of Americans helped to free slaves
Women get involved politically

16. WL Garrison reading
Your choice:
•6 pane comic based
on WL Garrison’s
writing
•1 page movie script
outline of WL
Garrison’s life
•In Garrison’s style pick
an issue you think he
would care about today
and write a 1 page
editorial about it

17. In your
notes
1. Which states do not have the death
penalty?

18. Death Penalty by state
http://www.azcorrections.gov/inmate_datasearch/Minh_NewDeathRow.aspx

19. Popular Sovereignty
• Voters should choose laws within state
• Examples?

20. MIMAL

22. Popular Sovereignty

24. Map instructions answer questions on back
1. Outline MIMAL
2. Color the slave states orange or red
3. Color the free states green
4. Label and color the territories of popular sovereignty
yellow
5. Make a legend for your map
6. How many slave/free states are there?
7. How did the Compromise of 1850 postpone the Civil War
by a few years?
8. List 4 issues that are still decided by popular sovereignty
today
9. Why is popular sovereignty a good idea for a big country
like the US or Mexico?

25. Next Assignment
1. 330-1 why was Kansas “bleeding” in 1856?
2. Write 3 newspaper headlines about events for the Atlanta
newspaper
3. Page 333, why was Charles Sumner hit with a cane?
4. Answer #1-2 page 333

26. Presidential Election of 1856
#5 OPTIC

27. James Buchanan
• President 1856-1860
• Democrat
• lawyer
• Pro-slavery Northerner
• Only bachelor prez
• Generally considered one
of the worst presidents

28. 6 OPTIC

29. 7 OPTIC

30. Dred Scott Decision
• Slaves are property
• Congress can’t ban slavery
in territories

31. Pretend you are congressmen in 1859
Consider the following abolitionist proposals:
1. Free the slaves (no compensation for slave owners
or slaves)
2. Free the slaves ($80,000/slave compensation)
3. Free the slaves (compensation for both slaves and
slave owners)
4. North breaks away from south
5. Make up something else
6. Choose the one you like best
Consider pro’s and con’s of each, on your OPTIC paper

32. Civil War (1861-1864)

33. Reading
show clip
Your choice:
•12 pane comic based on
Fredrick Douglass’ 1st
chapter
•23 questions history
questions you would ask him
•Detailed letter to US mint
using 5 historical reasons
Douglass should replace
Jackson on the $20 bill

34. Weekend Extra Credit
• Watch either: Amistad, 12
years a slave or The Butler
• Write 1 page summary and
your opinion of how it shows
the history of slavery
• Bring colors, Civil War project
Monday