Antebellum Terms and Slavery Terms
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| 667644681 | antebellum | literally means " before war", period of time before civil war | 1 | |
| 667644682 | manifest destiny | belief that god wants the US to settle to the pacific and "care" for indians | 2 | |
| 667644683 | 1819 | 11 free states and 11 slave states; senate =votes; House of Rep. more than | 3 | |
| 667644684 | Missouri Compromise | Allowed Missouri to enter the union as a slave state, Maine to enter the union as a free state, prohibited slavery north of latitude 36˚ (southern border of MO) | 4 | |
| 667644685 | Sectionalism | given region or area has better ideas and interests and are more important | 5 | |
| 667644686 | South on (sectionalism) | slavery was just, concerns over tariffs, believed in states' rights | 6 | |
| 667644687 | North on (sectionalism) | against slavery, concerns against tariffs, more cultured, better lifestyle | 7 | |
| 667644688 | States' Rights | interests of state are more important than interests of national government | 8 | |
| 674730643 | North on (States' Rights) | Political decisions should benefit the whole country; all states must follow Congress laws | 9 | |
| 674730644 | South on (States' Rights) | states - gov. themselves, states are best able to decide their own needs | 10 | |
| 674730645 | Nullification | right of states to determine if law passed by congress was constitutional or not | 11 | |
| 674730646 | North on nullification | only supreme court can do so | 12 | |
| 674730647 | South on nullification | state can declare federal constitutional null and void | 13 | |
| 674730648 | Compromise of 1850 | 15 slave states, 15 free; California Gold Rush bought population big enough to be a state; CA- free state;South get stronger fugitive slave law; no slave trade in DC; | 14 | |
| 674730649 | GA Platform | nation angry at comp of 1850; GA calls state convention; passes GA Platform (conditional acceptance of Comp of 1850); conditions- North complies with fugitive slave law, and stop banning slavery in new territories and states kept peace...for a while | 15 | |
| 674730650 | Great Debate | Senator Henry Clay's compromise | 16 | |
| 674730651 | South on Great Debate | NM and UT determine whether they are free or not; DC residents keep slaves; Congress pass fugitive slave laws | 17 | |
| 675051181 | North on Great Debate | CA is a free state; slave trading ends in DC; TX will not annex NM | 18 | |
| 675051182 | Kansas-Nebraska Act | Introduced by Stephen Douglas of Illinois; created territories of KS and NE with Popular Sovereignty (people rule on slave issue); northerners angry (would change MO Compromise) | 19 | |
| 675051183 | Fugitive Slave Act of 1793 | allowed a slave owner to seize an escaped slave, prove ownership, and retake the slave | 20 | |
| 675640874 | Penalty of obstructing slave owners efforts to retake a slave | $500 | 21 | |
| 675640875 | Northerners on Fugitive Slave Act of 1793 | saw act as an excuse for kidnapping free blacks; resented ability of owners to reclaim slaves who might have escaped years before and had new lives (passed "Personal Liberty Laws" to help protect fugitive slaves) | 22 | |
| 675640876 | Slave House | 1 room hut | 23 | |
| 675640877 | Slave Food | fatback, molasses, cornbread | 24 | |
| 675640878 | Slave Clothing | 1 set of clothes ; worked barefoot | 25 | |
| 675640879 | Slave Religion | Christian; some attached services; spiritual songs were important | 26 | |
| 675640880 | Slave Jobs | Field Worker (worked from sunrise to sunset; 1/2 day off (usually Sunday); Driver (supervisor of fields, older slaves); House Servants( cooks, repairs, yard work); Women ( field workers, spinning, sewing, weaving, preparing food, minding children) | 27 | |
| 675640881 | Slave Families | Slave marriages weren't recognized; children were property of master | 28 | |
| 675640882 | Educating Slaves | against the law to teach literacy, some taught with the bible, educated slaves would stir up discontent | 29 | |
| 675640883 | Slave Rebellions | 1800-Gabriel Prosser, VA, 1,000 slaves 1822- SC 5000 slaves 1831- Nat Turner, VA; 57-85 killed -strict laws were passed to curtail slave movements; meetings; literacy efforts | 30 | |
| 675640884 | Slave codes | laws took away nearly all rights of a slave cannot : testify against whites show disrespect to whites make any type of contact with a white carry a weapon | 31 | |
| 675640885 | Dred Scott | taken by owner from Missouri to Illinois and then Wisconsin (free state) filed a lawsuit claiming he was free since he was in Wisconsin | 32 | |
| 675640886 | Dred Scott desicion | 1857z; US Supreme Court decides he could not sue, not a citizen since he was property, said congress had no right to stop slavery in territories | 33 | |
| 675640887 | Underground Railroad | Network of roads, houses, river crossings, boats, wagons and streams giving path of escape from slavery | 34 | |
| 675640888 | URR Station | Stops along the way signaled by lanterns, candles, or quilts in the window | 35 | |
| 675640889 | URR Conductor | people who led slaves along RR Before 1850: Safety in Philly, Cincinatti, NY, and Boston After 1850-- Safety only in Canada | 36 | |
| 675640890 | Abolitionist: William Lloyd Garrison | wrote antislavery newspaper 'The Liberator' | 37 | |
| 675640891 | Abolitionist: Frederick Douglass | former slave; speaker; newspaper "North Star" | 38 | |
| 675640892 | Abolitionist:Harriet Beecher Stowe | author of Uncle Tom's Cabin in 1851 | 39 | |
| 675640893 | Abolitionist:Sojourner Truth | womens' rights speaker; born a slave | 40 | |
| 675640894 | Abolitionist: Harriet Tubman | called "Moses"; conductor on RR | 41 | |
| 675640895 | Abolitionist:John Brown | White Abolitionist Campaigned for Free Soilers in KS and NE 1859 attacked federal arsenal at Harper's Ferry, VA (wanted guns & ammo) 21 men--captured by Col. Robert E. Lee within 24 hours tried and convicted of Treason Martyr in North; Murderer in South | 42 | |
| 675640896 | What percent of GA'ns owned slaves? | 60% | 43 |
