APUSH: American Pageant: Chapter 16 Flashcards

20 terms from Chapter 16 in the American Pageant

1025573074	Eli Whitney	Invented the Cotton Gin Cotton Production increase (1lb/day --> 1,000 lbs/day) Drove for a need for more land = more slaves Cotton became "King" Led to a New Era	1
1025573075	Planter Aristocracy	Enjoyed a lion's share of Southern wealth 1,733 owned 100+ slaves =cream of political and social leadership Educated children in finest schools Obligated to serve the public	2
1025573076	Sir Walter Scott	Favorite author of the South Supported feudal society Accused by Twain of starting the Civil War	3
1025573077	Land Butchery	Excessive Cultivation Caused heavy leakage of pop. to West and Northwest Caused soil to become infertile	4
1025573078	Free Blacks	"Third Race" Vulnerable in South to being hijacked back into slavery Prohibited from working certain jobs Hated by Irish b/c job competition Unpopular in North (Denied the right to vote and education)	5
1025573079	Frederick Douglas	Black abolitionist and self educated orator Former slave Mobbed and beaten by Northern whites	6
1025573080	Black Ivory	A term given to slaves when there was such a high demand and smuggling began after 1808	7
1025573081	Sold Down the River	Process where slaves were sold from soil-exhausted slave states. Commonly sent from Virginia to the lower Mississippi Valley.	8
1025573082	Harriet Beecher Stowe	Seized emotional power from slave auctions to capture an audience. Abolitionist Wrote "Uncle Tom's Cabin"	9
1025573083	Driver	A Black man who had the power over and oversaw the work of other Black slaves.	10
1025573084	Black Belt	Stretched from South Carolina and Georgia into Alabama, Mississippi, and Louisiana. Where most slaves were concentrated. Where the Cotton Kingdom burst in a few short decades	11
1025573085	Peculiar Institution	The system of slavery in the South Caused antislavery societies to form Inhumane Euphemism for slavery	12
1025573086	American Colonization Society	Founded in 1817 to transport slaves back to Africa They would send slaves to the Republic of Liberia	13
1025573087	Theodore Dwight Weld	Abolitionist against the sin of slavery Appealed to untutored farmers Fanned across Old Northwest Assemble propaganda pamphlet "America Slavery as It Is" Most effective abolitionist tract Influenced "Uncle Tom's Cabin"	14
1025573088	William Loyd Garrison	Mild-looking reformer Published "The Liberator" Triggered a 30 year war of words Wouldn't tolerate the poisonous weed of slavery	15
1025573089	American Slavery Society	Founded in 1833 by abolitionists dedicated to Garrison's standard	16
1025573090	Wendell Phillips	Boston patrician known as "abolition's golden trumpet." Ate no cane sugar & wore no cotton cloth because they were produced by southern slaves Member of the American Slavery Society	17
1025573091	David Walker	Black abolitionist Wrote "Appeal to the Colored Citizens of the World" Advocated a bloody end to white supremacy	18
1025573092	Sojourner Truth	Freed black woman who fought for black emancipation and women's rights Condemned the sin of slavery	19
1025573093	Gag Resolution	Required all antislavery appeals to be tabled without debate Attack on the right to petition John Q. Adams fought successfully for its repeal	20