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APUSH chapter 16 ("The American Pageant" 13th edition) Flashcards

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8035777453Peculiar institutionsouthern slavery0
8035777454Fugitive slave actslave owners can reclaim runaway slaves -turned north against south1
8035777455Attempts to reduce sectional conflict1)MO Compromise (1820) 2)Compromise of 1850 3)Kansas-Nebraska Act (1854)2
8035777456Black beltregion of deep south with the most black slaves3
8035777457Characteristics of antebellum south-agrarian, cotton -lack of industrialization -$$$ invested in slave labor -majority did NOT own slaves4
8035777458Why did non-slave owning southerners support slaveryAmerican dream (they will need the slaves once they're SUCCESSFUL) -wanted to feel higher than someone5
8035777459Type of southern governmentOligarchy -gov't by the few wealthy(plantation owners) -s. large slave holders control southern politics6
8035777460Souther social classes1)Southern plantation owners 2)Small slaveholders 3)Yeoman farmers 4)People of the pine barrens7
8035777461Why did the free blacks have to compete with Irish immigrants in the North?job competition, both in the lowest of classes8
8035777462Significance 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 audience9
8035777463African American culture developments-religion -black christianity, baptists and christianity -responsorial style of preaching -music -spirituals10
8035777464Floggingswhip punishments put upon slaves11
8035777465Breakersslave masters that would whip slaves to 'break' their strong willed souls12
8035777466Forms of resistance to slavery-work slowdowns -negligence (break equipment) -runaway (undergorund rr)13
8035777467Significant slave revolts-Stono Rebellion, ran to FL -Denmark Vesey, large planned revolt in SC -Nat Turner, revolt in VA, killed 60 people14
8035777468First opponents to slavery (abolitionists)quakers15
8035777469American Colonization Societyidea to transport freed slaves back to Africa (Liberia)16
8035777470David Walker"Appeal to the Colored Citizens of the World" -called for violent uprising17
8035777471William Lloyd GarrisonAmerican Anti-Slavery Society called for immediate uncompensated emancipation -published "The Liberator"18
8035777472Sojourner Truth & Frederick Douglas-former slaves -advocated for abolitionism19
8035777473Liberty Partyfirst anti-slavery political party20
8035777474Gag Resolution-ban on anti-slavery petitions being discussed in congress (repealed by JQA (1894))21
8035777475Other southern reactions to abolitionism-bans on teaching slaves to read or write -southern states adopt strict slave codes -anti-slavery messages banned from southern mail22
8035777476George FitzhughPro-slavery argument -slaves as family -better than "wage slavery" -it civilized inferior people23
8035777477Mason Dixon lineNorth/South divide over slavery24

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