AP US History Chapter 12 Flashcards

5046173956	King Cotton	Expression used by Southern authors and orators before Civil War to indicate economic dominance of Southern cotton industry, and that North needed South's cotton. Coined by James Hammond.	0
5046176242	Internal Slave Trade	By 1815, the internal slave trade had become a major economic activity in the United States; it lasted until the 1860s. Between 1830 and 1840 nearly 250,000 slaves were taken across state lines.	1
5046182715	Forced Slave Migration	Looking for new opportunities, thousands of Chesapeake and Carolina planters sold their plantations and moved to the Southwest with their slaves.	2
5046184681	Coastal Network	A system of slave trade in which slaves are transported through the Atlantic sea ports.	3
5046187012	Inland trade system	A system of slave trade in which the trade took place through inland commerce using rivers and roads.	4
5046188728	Chattel principle	In law, they were the movable personal property of hits who owned them. As Lewis Clark, a fugitive from slavery, noted: "Many a time i've had 'em say to me, 'You're my property'." It was also known as the property principle, of the bill of sale principle. As a South Carolina master put it, "The slave's earnings belong to me because I bought him."	5
5046193302	Benevolent master theory	Committed to welfare of "white, black, family"- paternalist ideal by treating kindly "loyal and worthy" slaves, and "sold south" only "coarse" trouble makers.	6
5046193303	Gang labor system	Barbados used it. when there is an overseer whose job was to drive slaves to work from sun up to sun down 6-7 days a week. This man had a whip most likely. This form of labor, slaves was worked really high. They had no incentive to work fast.	7
5046198217	Slave driver	The highest management position to which a slave could aspire was usually that of "driver," placed in charge of a small group of slaves with the duty of getting them to work without creating dissension.	8
5046204030	Overseer	A worker hired by a planter to watch over and direct the work of slaves.	9
5046205394	Butternut region	The region where Lincoln's critics usually came from; southern Illinois, Indiana, and Ohio; region where an antislavery war was extremely unpopular.	10
5046205395	The ring shout	The thousands of African Americans who joined the Methodist Church respected its ban on secular dancing but praised the lord in the African-derived "ring shout".	11
5046204031	Labor by task	The task system was one of the two plantation slave labor systems. Under the task system, slaves were assigned several specific tasks within a day. When those tasks were finished, slaves could have time to themselves.	12