352254281 | no legal slave trade | 1808 | 0 | |
352254282 | inventors of cotton gin | Eli Whitney Catherine Green | 1 | |
352254283 | cotton made | 60 million pounds per year | 2 | |
352254284 | slave population 1790-1860 | 700,000 - 4,000,000 | 3 | |
352254285 | percentage worked on cotton fields | 55% | 4 | |
352254286 | groups sold down the river | slave pens | 5 | |
352254287 | transported from Upper South to Lower South down the Mssisippi River | sold down the river | 6 | |
352254288 | chained together in groups of fifty | coffles | 7 | |
352254289 | Sold down the river = harsh conditions, torture of young teen slaves | Second Middle Passage | 8 | |
352254290 | 75% all slaves work as groups in fields, controlled by overseer | gang labor system | 9 | |
352254291 | sunup to sundown | can see to can't see | 10 | |
352254292 | less physical labor but harder due to close proximity to masters | house servants | 11 | |
352254293 | surprised at the desertion of his house slaves | Jefferson Davis | 12 | |
352254294 | demeaning images, forced to act with gratitude | Uncle Tom and mammy | 13 | |
352254295 | decrease of this increased population, rise in birth rate | breastfeeding | 14 | |
352254296 | ffreeing of a slave | manumission | 15 | |
352254297 | resistance | sabotage | 16 | |
352254298 | great African American leader, abolitionist | Frederick Douglass | 17 | |
352254299 | Free AA form their own churches, survival | 2nd Great Awakening | 18 | |
352254300 | AA ministers | Reverend Absalom Jones and Reverend Richard Allen | 19 | |
352254301 | on duty to return escapees for punishment | slave patrols | 20 | |
352254302 | former runaway from Maryland, twelve missions = saves 60-70 slaves | Harriet Tubman | 21 | |
352254303 | temporary moments of escape into the woods | running away nearby | 22 | |
352254304 | 1800, plan to sieze Virginia arsenal and kill all whites, inspired by Haiti to create a free black state. 35 & him executed | Gabriel Prosser | 23 | |
352254305 | 1822, African-Caribbean purchased freedom. Planned revolt on Bastille Day, planned to eventually sail to Haiti. 35 & him executed | Denmark Vesey | 24 | |
352254306 | 1831, killed master and move from plantaion to plantaion killing 55 whites with 60 rebels. 40 & him executed | Nat Turner | 25 | |
352254307 | laws governing free black people | black codes | 26 | |
352254308 | # of south didn't own slaves | 2/3 | 27 | |
352254309 | agricultural economy dependent on this for trade in world market | Urban centerd | 28 | |
352254310 | attempted to set up paternalistic textile industry in SC, fails | William Gregg | 29 | |
352254311 | attempt to use slave labor in mills instead of plantations | Tredeger Iron Works | 30 | |
352254312 | landless # in south | 20-50% | 31 | |
352254313 | british term for farmer that works his own land | Yeoman Farmer | 32 | |
352254314 | modeled on British aristocracy | Plantaion Life | 33 | |
352254315 | total southern population | 12,000,000 | 34 | |
352254316 | - Bible/history mention slave owning societies - Constitutional Convention recognize existence slavery (clause for return of runaways, 3/5 compromise, no abolition for 20 years) | justification of slavery | 35 | |
352254317 | publisher of the Liberator newspaper | William Lloyd Garrison | 36 | |
352254318 | tight laws controlling slaves | slave codes | 37 | |
352254319 | southern politicians do not talk about/debate abolition in House/Senate | gag rule | 38 | |
352254320 | went north to continue abolitionist activities | James G. Birney and Sarah and Angelina Grimke | 39 | |
352254321 | House in 1836, slavery is not evil, pure southern society, necessary | James Henry Hammond | 40 | |
352254322 | slaves are happy, free, treated better than north industrial workers | George Fitzhugh | 41 | |
352254323 | book is an attack on slavery, generates tension | The Impending Crisis by Hinton Helper | 42 |
Chapter 10: The South and Slavery Flashcards
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