1. Slave Rebellions

2. Objective
• Identify the means what slaves used to
resist slavery.

3. Passive Resistance
• Using songs

4. Dr. Bernice Johnson
Reagon
“Steal Away to Jesus”
- 1948

5. Passive Resistance
• Using songs
• Express longings to be free
• Express sorrow
• Pass secret messages

6. Clara Ward Singers
“Swing Low Sweet
Chariot”
- 1952

7. “Follow the Drinking
Gourd”

8. N

9. Individual Resistance
• Pretended to be sick
• Purposely broke tools
• Worked slowly
• Ran away ( Later to be caught and
punished)

10. Punishments
• Whipped
• Branded
• Some were maimed
• Hanged

11. Active Resistance
• Actually Fighting Back ( Slave Rebellion)
• Caused widespread fear
• The most feared form of resistance

12. 3 Major Slave
Rebellions
• Although only one was an actual uprising.
• Gabriel Prosser 1800
• Denmark Vessey 1822
• Nat Turner 1831

13. Gabriel Prosser
• Richmond Virginia
• Preacher and Blacksmith
• Was free
• Planned an uprising but was betrayed by a
slave
• He and 35 other were hanged.

14. Denmark Vessey
• Free black carpenter
• Charleston, South Carolina
• He was also betrayed and executed

15. Nat Turner
• A slave preacher
• Led 70 black men in an uprising
• Lasted 3 days
• 57 white people were killed
• Was on the run for several weeks
• Executed

16. Causes of the Civil War
Chapter 11, Lesson 1

21. Objectives
• Assess why the Missouri Compromise
failed to resolve the debate over slavery.

22. Different Regions,
Different Needs
• North and South differed greatly.

23. Free Labor
• Northern workers received pay for their
labor.
• The chance to improve their lives.
• The right to leave employers

24. South
• Depended on slave labor
• Saw the Northerners as foolish
• Large cities
• Technology

25. South
• For Southerners, even those who did not
own slaves, understood the economic
benefits of slavery.

26. Balance

27. Missouri
• Missouri wanted to be a state.
• Wanted to be a slave state
• At the time there were exactly equal slave
and free states.

28. Missouri Compromise
Alabama ( 1819) 11 Illinois ( 1818)
Mississippi ( 1817) 10 Indiana ( 1816)
Louisiana ( 1812) 9 Ohio ( 1803)
Tennessee ( 1796) 8 Vermont ( 1791)
Kentucky ( 1792) 7 Pennsylvania
Georgia 6 New Jersey
South Carolina 5 New York
North Carolina 4 Connecticut
Virginia 3 Rhode Island
Maryland 2 Massachusetts
Delaware 1 New Hampshire

29. Missouri Compromise
Missouri ( 1821)
Alabama ( 1819) Illinois ( 1818)
Mississippi ( 1817) Indiana ( 1816)
Louisiana ( 1812) Ohio ( 1803)
Tennessee ( 1796) Vermont ( 1791)
Kentucky ( 1792) Pennsylvania
Georgia New Jersey
South Carolina New York
North Carolina Connecticut
Virginia Rhode Island
Maryland Massachusetts
Delaware New Hampshire

30. Missouri

31. Missouri
• 1819
• Missouri wanted to become a state.
• Proposed a constitution what supported
slavery.

32. Balance

33. Balance
• House of Representatives was dominated
by the North.
• If Missouri entered the South would have
had majority in the Senate.

38. The Compromise
• Some wanted to forbid slavery in the new
state.
• Others said it was not up to congress to
decide.

42. Maine
• Filed to become a state during this time.
• 1820

43. The Compromise
• Maine would enter a free state
• Missouri a slave state

44. The Compromise
• Prohibited slavery in other American
territories west of the Mississippi
• North of Missouri’s southern boundry

45. Missouri Compromise
Missouri ( 1821) Maine ( 1820)
Alabama ( 1819) Illinois ( 1818)
Mississippi ( 1817) Indiana ( 1816)
Louisiana ( 1812) Ohio ( 1803)
Tennessee ( 1796) Vermont ( 1791)
Kentucky ( 1792) Pennsylvania
Georgia New Jersey
South Carolina New York
North Carolina Connecticut
Virginia Rhode Island
Maryland Massachusetts
Delaware New Hampshire