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| 8092603481 | coastal trade | The domestic slave trade with routes along the Atlantic coast that sent thousands of slaves to sugar plantations in Louisiana and cotton plantations in the Mississippi Valley. | 0 | |
| 8092603482 | inland system | The slave trade system in the interior of the country that fed slaves to the Cotton South. Less visible than the coastal trade but more extensive | 1 | |
| 8092603483 | Chattel principle | A system of bondage in which a slave has the legal status of property and so can be bought and sold. | 2 | |
| 8092603484 | benevolent masters | Slave owners who considered themselves committed to the welfare of their slaves. | 3 | |
| 8092603485 | republican aristocracy | The Old South gentry that built impressive mansions, adopted the manners and values of the English landed gentry, and feared federal government interference with their slave property. | 4 | |
| 8092603486 | "positive good" | An argument in the 1830's that institution of slavery was a "positive good" because it subsidized an elegant lifestyle for the white elite and provided tutelage for genetically inferior Africans. | 5 | |
| 8092603487 | gang-labor system | A system of work discipline used on southern cotton plantations in the mid-nineteenth century in which white overseers or black drivers supervised gangs of enslaved laborers to achieve greater productivity. Now masters with 20 or more slaves organize disciplined team, or gangs, supervised by black drivers and white overseer. They instructed the supervisors to work the gangs at a steady pace, clearing and plowing land or hoeing and picking cotton. Because slaves in gangs finished tasks in 35 minutes that took a white yeoman planters and hour to complete, gang labor became ever more prevalent | 6 | |
| 8092603488 | slave society | A society in which the institution of slavery affects all aspects of life. | 7 | |
| 8092603489 | Alamo | The mission in San Antonio where in 1836 Mexican forces under Santa Anna besieged and massacred American rebels who were fighting to make Texas independent of Mexico. American adventurers flocked to Texas to join the rebel forces. |  | 8 |
| 8092603490 | secret ballot | Form of voting that allows the voter to enter a choice in privacy without having to submit a recognizable ballot or to voice the choice out loud to others. |  | 9 |
| 8092603491 | black Protestantism | A form of Protestantism that was devised by Christian slaves in the Chesapeake and spread to the Cotton South as result of the domestic slave trade. It emphasized the evangelical message of emotional conversion, ritual baptism, communal spirituality, and the idea that blacks were "children of God" and should be treated accordingly. | 10 | |
| 8092603492 | task system | A system of labor common in the rice-growing regions of South Carolina in which a slave was assigned a daily task to complete and allowed to do as he wished upon its completion. | 11 | |
| 8092603493 | Harriet Jacobs | Slave whose fear of sexual abuse from her master compelled her to hide in an attic where she could glimpse her children for seven years before she escaped to freedom in the north; wrote "Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl". |  | 12 |
| 8092603494 | James Henry Hammond | A senator and slave owner form South Carolina who believed in the necessity of slaves in society and that blacks were inferior to the superior whites Built a Greek Revival mansion with a center hall of 53 feet by 20 feet |  | 13 |
| 8092603495 | Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna | Mexican president who resented American encroachment on Texas lands and refused to grant independence to the American settlers in Texas; led brutal attack on the Alamo and then captured Goliad, killing about350 prisoner of war |  | 14 |
| 8092603496 | Stephen F. Austin | this man led 300 American families to settle in the Texas territory on land that his father had acquired Led the "peace party" |  | 15 |
| 8092603497 | Sam Houston | United States politician and military leader who fought to gain independence for Texas from Mexico and to make it a part of the United States (1793-1863) |  | 16 |
