PPT Slide
Class divisions
- Definitions of class
- Wealth distribution: richest 1% of free men own about one-quarter of all wealth in each section while poorest 50% own virtually nothing
- Growth of wage labor in the North
- Contraction of slaveholding class in the South: from 1/3 of white families in 1830 to 1/4 of white families in 1860
- Significance of social mobility