8035777453 | Peculiar institution | southern slavery | 0 | |
8035777454 | Fugitive slave act | slave owners can reclaim runaway slaves -turned north against south | 1 | |
8035777455 | Attempts to reduce sectional conflict | 1)MO Compromise (1820) 2)Compromise of 1850 3)Kansas-Nebraska Act (1854) | 2 | |
8035777456 | Black belt | region of deep south with the most black slaves | 3 | |
8035777457 | Characteristics of antebellum south | -agrarian, cotton -lack of industrialization -$$$ invested in slave labor -majority did NOT own slaves | 4 | |
8035777458 | Why did non-slave owning southerners support slavery | American dream (they will need the slaves once they're SUCCESSFUL) -wanted to feel higher than someone | 5 | |
8035777459 | Type of southern government | Oligarchy -gov't by the few wealthy(plantation owners) -s. large slave holders control southern politics | 6 | |
8035777460 | Souther social classes | 1)Southern plantation owners 2)Small slaveholders 3)Yeoman farmers 4)People of the pine barrens | 7 | |
8035777461 | Why did the free blacks have to compete with Irish immigrants in the North? | job competition, both in the lowest of classes | 8 | |
8035777462 | Significance of "Uncle Tom's Cabin" | Book was used as propaganda to show the inhumanity of slavery -brought the issue of families being broken up to a mass audience | 9 | |
8035777463 | African American culture developments | -religion -black christianity, baptists and christianity -responsorial style of preaching -music -spirituals | 10 | |
8035777464 | Floggings | whip punishments put upon slaves | 11 | |
8035777465 | Breakers | slave masters that would whip slaves to 'break' their strong willed souls | 12 | |
8035777466 | Forms of resistance to slavery | -work slowdowns -negligence (break equipment) -runaway (undergorund rr) | 13 | |
8035777467 | Significant slave revolts | -Stono Rebellion, ran to FL -Denmark Vesey, large planned revolt in SC -Nat Turner, revolt in VA, killed 60 people | 14 | |
8035777468 | First opponents to slavery (abolitionists) | quakers | 15 | |
8035777469 | American Colonization Society | idea to transport freed slaves back to Africa (Liberia) | 16 | |
8035777470 | David Walker | "Appeal to the Colored Citizens of the World" -called for violent uprising | 17 | |
8035777471 | William Lloyd Garrison | American Anti-Slavery Society called for immediate uncompensated emancipation -published "The Liberator" | 18 | |
8035777472 | Sojourner Truth & Frederick Douglas | -former slaves -advocated for abolitionism | 19 | |
8035777473 | Liberty Party | first anti-slavery political party | 20 | |
8035777474 | Gag Resolution | -ban on anti-slavery petitions being discussed in congress (repealed by JQA (1894)) | 21 | |
8035777475 | Other southern reactions to abolitionism | -bans on teaching slaves to read or write -southern states adopt strict slave codes -anti-slavery messages banned from southern mail | 22 | |
8035777476 | George Fitzhugh | Pro-slavery argument -slaves as family -better than "wage slavery" -it civilized inferior people | 23 | |
8035777477 | Mason Dixon line | North/South divide over slavery | 24 |
APUSH chapter 16 ("The American Pageant" 13th edition) Flashcards
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