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Chapter 10: The South and Slavery Flashcards

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352254281no legal slave trade18080
352254282inventors of cotton ginEli Whitney Catherine Green1
352254283cotton made60 million pounds per year2
352254284slave population 1790-1860700,000 - 4,000,0003
352254285percentage worked on cotton fields55%4
352254286groups sold down the riverslave pens5
352254287transported from Upper South to Lower South down the Mssisippi Riversold down the river6
352254288chained together in groups of fiftycoffles7
352254289Sold down the river = harsh conditions, torture of young teen slavesSecond Middle Passage8
35225429075% all slaves work as groups in fields, controlled by overseergang labor system9
352254291sunup to sundowncan see to can't see10
352254292less physical labor but harder due to close proximity to mastershouse servants11
352254293surprised at the desertion of his house slavesJefferson Davis12
352254294demeaning images, forced to act with gratitudeUncle Tom and mammy13
352254295decrease of this increased population, rise in birth ratebreastfeeding14
352254296ffreeing of a slavemanumission15
352254297resistancesabotage16
352254298great African American leader, abolitionistFrederick Douglass17
352254299Free AA form their own churches, survival2nd Great Awakening18
352254300AA ministersReverend Absalom Jones and Reverend Richard Allen19
352254301on duty to return escapees for punishmentslave patrols20
352254302former runaway from Maryland, twelve missions = saves 60-70 slavesHarriet Tubman21
352254303temporary moments of escape into the woodsrunning away nearby22
3522543041800, plan to sieze Virginia arsenal and kill all whites, inspired by Haiti to create a free black state. 35 & him executedGabriel Prosser23
3522543051822, African-Caribbean purchased freedom. Planned revolt on Bastille Day, planned to eventually sail to Haiti. 35 & him executedDenmark Vesey24
3522543061831, killed master and move from plantaion to plantaion killing 55 whites with 60 rebels. 40 & him executedNat Turner25
352254307laws governing free black peopleblack codes26
352254308# of south didn't own slaves2/327
352254309agricultural economy dependent on this for trade in world marketUrban centerd28
352254310attempted to set up paternalistic textile industry in SC, failsWilliam Gregg29
352254311attempt to use slave labor in mills instead of plantationsTredeger Iron Works30
352254312landless # in south20-50%31
352254313british term for farmer that works his own landYeoman Farmer32
352254314modeled on British aristocracyPlantaion Life33
352254315total southern population12,000,00034
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 slavery35
352254317publisher of the Liberator newspaperWilliam Lloyd Garrison36
352254318tight laws controlling slavesslave codes37
352254319southern politicians do not talk about/debate abolition in House/Senategag rule38
352254320went north to continue abolitionist activitiesJames G. Birney and Sarah and Angelina Grimke39
352254321House in 1836, slavery is not evil, pure southern society, necessaryJames Henry Hammond40
352254322slaves are happy, free, treated better than north industrial workersGeorge Fitzhugh41
352254323book is an attack on slavery, generates tensionThe Impending Crisis by Hinton Helper42

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