Ch 10: The South and Slavery Flashcards

1790s-1850s, Out of Many: A History of the American People, 6th edition, APUSH

1192229736	Industrial Revolution	revolution in the means and organization of production	1
1192229737	gang system	the organization and supervision of slave field hands into working teams on southern plantations	2
1192229738	Second Great Awakening	religious revival among black and white southerners in the 1790s	3
1192229739	Gabriel's Rebellion	slave revolt that failed when Gabriel Prosser, a slave preacher and blacksmith, organized a thousand slaves for an attack on Richmond, Virginia, in 1800	4
1192229740	Nat Turner's rebellion	uprising of slaves in Southampton County, Virginia, in the summer of 1831 led by Nat Turner that resulted in the death of fifty five white people	5
1192229741	black codes	laws passed by states and municipalities denying many rights of citizenship to free black people before the Civil War	6
1192229742	yeoman	independent farmers of the South, most of whom lived on family sized farms	7
1192229743	Denmark Vesey's conspiracy	the most carefully devised slave revolt in which rebels planned to seize control of Charleston in 1822 and escape to freedom in Haiti, a free black republic, but they were betrayed by other slaves, and seventy five conspirators were executed	8