The American Pageant 14th Edition
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| 594749917 | "Peculiar Institution" | Southern Euphemism for Slavery | |
| 594749918 | "Cottonocracy" | Name for Wealthy Planters who made their money from cotton in the mid-1800s | |
| 594749919 | John C. Calhoun | 7th Vice President of the United States and a leading Southern politician from South Carolina during the first half of the 19th century; was an advocate of slavery, states' rights, limited government, and nullification | |
| 594749920 | Jefferson Davis | US Senator (D-MS) / Served as President of the Confederate States of America from 1861 to 1865 | |
| 594749921 | "Crackers" | Southern whites who raised cattle | |
| 594749922 | "clay-eaters" | poor slaveless Southern whites who were reduced to eating clay for nutrition; often considered lazy, they were in fact very sick with hookworm and malnutrition | |
| 594749923 | "A rich man's war but a poor man's fight" | Slogan to describe Civil War (& too many others); rich had the greatest financial interest in the outcome of the war, but the poor did the fighting and dying | |
| 594749924 | Frederick Douglass | Self-Educated Slave; Escaped in 1838; Became best-known Abolitionist Speaker; Edited "the North Star" | |
| 594749925 | "Black Ivory" | Term used for Slaves because they were so valuable | |
| 594749926 | William T. Johnson | Mulatto free slave who owned slaves himself; known as the "Barber of Natchez" | |
| 594749927 | "Black Belt" | Area of the south where most slaves were held, stretching from South Carolina across to Louisiana | |
| 594749928 | "Sold Down River" | Phrase used to describe a slave that was sold away from their plantation and family - usually to the deep south | |
| 594749929 | Harriet Beecher Stowe | Wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin, a book about a slave who is treated badly, in 1852; it persuaded more people, particularly Northerners, to become anti-slavery | |
| 594749930 | ring-shout | African American religious celebration where they gathered in a circle and praised God by singing, dancing, and shouting; origin of jazz | |
| 594749931 | Toussaint L'Overture | Led 1803 Slave Rebellion in Haiti; rebellion led Napoleon to feel that New World colonies were more trouble than they were worth and encouraged him to sell Louisiana to the U.S.; Southerner strengthened their Slave Codes | |
| 594749932 | Gabriel Prosser | Gathered 1000 rebellious slaves in 1800 outside of Richmond; 2 slaves gave the plot away, and the Virginia militia stopped the uprising before it could begin; he was executed along with many followers | |
| 594749933 | Denmark Vesey | Freed Slave & Insurrectionist in SC; Led an Uprising of Slaves; Captured and was Hanged; Slave Codes Strengthened | |
| 594749934 | Nat Turner | Slave in VA; Started Slave Rebellion in 1831 believing he was receiving signs from God; his rebellion was the largest sign of black resistance to slavery in America and led the state legislature of Virginia to a policy that said no one could question slavery | |
| 594749935 | American Colonization Society | Anti Slavery Society formed in 1817 that thought slavery was bad; it purchased a tract of land in Liberia and returned free blacks to Africa | |
| 594749936 | Republic of Liberia | Formed by the American Colonization Society in 1822 by Former Slaves on the West African coast; its population eventually comprised fifteen thousand freed blacks; its capital was named Monrovia, after President Monroe | |
| 594749937 | Theodore Dwight Weld | Prominent White Abolitionist of 1830's; Self-Educated & Very Outspoken; put together a group called the "Land Rebels"; put together a propaganda pamphlet called "American Slavery As It Is" | |
| 594749938 | "American Slavery As It Is" | Theodore Dwight Weld's powerful antislavery book | |
| 594749939 | Arthur and Lewis Tappan | Brothers born in MA who united with Theodore D. Weld to form the American Anti-Slavery Society; gave financial support to anti-slavery societies & to Oberlin College in Ohio | |
| 594749940 | Angelina and Sarah Grimke | Daughters of a Prominent SC Slaveholder that were Antislavery; controversial because they spoke to audiences of both men and women at a time when it was thought indelicate to address male audiences; Womens' rights advocates as well | |
| 594749941 | Lyman Beecher | Had 13 kids; thought alcohol was the biggest threat to society; early temperance group Connecticut Society for the Reformation of Morals 1825; inspired temperance movement not just against drunkenness | |
| 594749942 | "Lane Rebels" | group of theology students, led by Theodore Dwight Weld, who were expelled from Lane Theological Seminary for abolitionist activity and later became leading preachers of the antislavery gospel | |
| 594749943 | William Lloyd Garrison | January 1st, 1831, he published the first edition of "The Liberator" triggering a 30-year war of words and in a sense firing one of the first shots of the Civil War | |
| 594749944 | The Liberator | Anti-slavery newspaper written by William Lloyd Garrison; drew attention to abolition, both positive and negative, causing a war of words between supporters of slavery and those opposed | |
| 594749945 | American Anti-Slavery Society | Organization started by William Lloyd Garrison whose members wanted immediate emancipation and racial equality for African Americans. | |
| 594749946 | Wendell Phillips | Associate of William Lloyd Garrison, this man founded the American Antislavery Society in 1833 | |
| 594749947 | David Walker | Black Abolitionist who called for the immediate emancipation of slaves; wrote the "Appeal to the Colored Citizens of the World"; it called for a bloody end to white supremacy; believed that the only way to end slavery was for slaves to physically revolt | |
| 594749948 | Sojourner Truth | Abolitionist & Feminist who was freed from slavery and became a leading advocate of the abolition of slavery and for the rights of women | |
| 594749949 | Martin Delaney | 1 of the few black leaders to take seriously the notion of mass recolonization of Africa; visited West Africa's Niger Valley in 1859 seeking a suitable site for relocation | |
| 594749950 | Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass | Vivid Autobiography of the Escaped Slave and Renowned Abolitionist Frederick Douglass | |
| 594749951 | Liberty Party | Political Party that started during the two party systems in the 1840's; party's main platform was bringing an end to slavery by political and legal means; party split because they believed there was a more practical way to end slavery than Garrison's moral crusade | |
| 594749952 | Free Soil Party | Formed in 1848; dedicated to opposing slavery in newly acquired territories such as Oregon and ceded Mexican territory | |
| 594749953 | Republican Party (1850s) | Political party that believed in the non-expansion of slavery and comprised of Whigs, Northern Democrats, and Free-Soilers, in defiance to the Slave Powers | |
| 594749954 | "Necessary Evil" vs "Positive Good" | Southern slave supporters gave slavery a new euphemism once it came under fire due to abolitionism; pointed out how masters taught their slaves religion, made them civilized, treated them well, and gave them "happy" lives | |
| 594749955 | Northern "Wage Slaves" | Northern factory workers whose livelihood depended on wages; worked in sweatshops; low social status and under the threat of starvation and poverty | |
| 594749956 | The Gag Resolution | Meant that Congress refused to hear petitions related to slavery and the slave trade, and all such petitions were tabled for about a decade; Americans revolted against this, claiming they had the right to petition Congress and that the law attacked their fundamental constitutional rights | |
| 594749957 | "The Broadcloth Mob" | was concerned that the New England textile mills would shut down if cotton was no longer available from the South; they dragged William Lloyd Garrison, through the streets of Boston with a rope tied around him & almost killed him but he escaped |
