Video Question 4

Write a paragraph answering this question: If you were a southern plantation owner, what would you tell your son or daughter if he or she asked you why you held slaves?

Video Question 3

Explain how the cotton gin increased the demand for slaves, then find the average price of a healthy male slave before 1830 (before the widespread use of the cotton gin) and the average price of a healthy male slave after 1850 (after the widespread use of the cotton gin.) What is the difference in the two prices? Be sure to include the link to the website you found the information from in your response.

Video Question 2

Political cartoons are cartoons printed in a newspaper that carry a message (usually a non-verbal message) that makes a statement about current events. Find a political cartoon from the 1850s or 1860s and paste the link into your response, then answer the following questions:
1. Who wrote this cartoon and where (in what newspaper) did it first appear?
2. What is the message you think it shows?
3. Why do you think people felt this way?

Video Question 1

Name 1 way canals and railways changed transportation.