1. CRCT Review – Explain the significance of the following events: 1) Battle of Kettle Creek 2) Battle of Bloody Marsh 3) Proclamation of 1763

2. The Antebellum South Special Thanks to Ms. Susan M. Pojer Horace Greeley HS Chappaqua, NY

3. Early Emancipation in the North

4. Missouri Compromise, 1820

5. Antebellum Southern Society

7. Antebellum Social Ladder Planters, bankers, lawyers, and merchants Yeoman farmers Poor whites Free blacks Black slaves

8. Yeoman Farmer’s Dogtrot Cabin

9. Slaves posing in front of their cabin on a Southern plantation.

10. Southern Society (1850) “ Slavocracy” [plantation owners] The “Plain Folk” [white yeoman farmers] 6,000,000 Black Freemen Black Slaves 3,200,000 250,000 Total US Population --> 23,000,000 [9,250,000 in the South = 40%]

11. Georgian Society (1850) “ Slavocracy” [plantation owners] The “Plain Folk” [white yeoman farmers] 600,000 Black Freemen Black Slaves 381,600 3,500 Total US Population --> 23,000,000 [985,100 in Georgia = 4.3%]

12. Southern Population (1860)

13. Antebellum Southern Economy

14. Graniteville Textile Co. Founded in 1845, it was the South’s first attempt at industrialization in Richmond, VA

15. Southern Agriculture

16. Slaves Picking Cotton on a Plantation

17. Slaves Using the Cotton Gin

18. The Growth of King Cotton 1820 1860

19. King Cotton in Georgia Late 1700s – Sea Island Cotton 1793 – Eli Whitney and the Cotton Gin Short-fiber variety grows inland Georgia’s Piedmont and Coastal Plain ideal Georgia’s Fall Line attracted planters – fast moving water could power cotton gins, textile mills, and factories 1820s – Steamboats and 1840s – Railroad By 1850 “Empire State of the South”

20. Value of Cotton Exports As % of All US Exports

21. “ Hauling the Whole Week’s Pickings” William Henry Brown, 1842

22. Antebellum Southern Plantation Life

23. Tara – Plantation Reality or Myth? Hollywood’s Version?

24. Jarrell Plantation - Reality Jones County, GA Version

26. Slave-Owning Population (1850)

27. Slave-Owning Families (1850)

28. A Real Georgia Plantation

29. Slaves posing in front of their cabin on a Southern plantation.

30. The Southern “Belle”

32. Scarlet and Mammie (Hollywood Again!)

33. A Real Mammie & Her Charge

35. Antebellum Southern Society Social Change

37. Old Field School

39. The University of Georgia

40. Wesleyan College - Macon

42. Southern Slave Church

44. Georgia Academy for the Blind

45. Georgia Lunatic Asylum

46. Ticket Out the Door – Which compromise was the best for the nation? The worst?