AP US History 1 Chapter 16 Vocabulary Terms Flashcards

7530926699	American Anti-Slavery Society	Founded by William Lloyd Garrison and advocated the immediate abolition of slavery. By 1838, the organization had more than 250,000 members across 1,350 chapters.	0
7530926700	American Colonization Society	Reflecting the focus of early abolitionists on transporting freed blacks back to Africa, the organization established Liberia, a West-African settlement intended as a haven for emancipated slaves.	1
7530926701	Amistad	Spanish slave ship dramatically seized off the coast of Cuba by the enslaved Africans aboard. The ship was driven ashore in Long Island and the slaves were put on trial.	2
7530926702	Appeal to the Colored Citizens of the World	Incendiary abolitionist track advocating the violent overthrow of slavery. Published by David Walker, a Southern-born free black.	3
7530926703	Black Belt	Region of the Deep South with the highest concentration of slaves.	4
7530926704	breakers	Slave drivers who employed the lash to brutally "break" the souls of strong-willed slaves.	5
7530926705	Gag Resolution	One of several resolutions passed in Congress between 1836 and 1844 providing in effect that no petition against slavery should be received or heard by the House	6
7530926706	Liberia	West-African nation founded in 1822 as a haven for freed blacks, fifteen thousand of whom made their way back across the Atlantic by the 1860s	7
7530926707	Mason-Dixon line	Originally drawn by surveyors to resolve the boundaries between Maryland, Delaware, Pennsylvania and Virginia in the 1760s, it came to symbolize the North-South divide over slavery.	8
7530926711	The Liberator	Antislavery newspaper published by William Lloyd Garrison, who called for the immediate emancipation of all slaves.	9
7533419616	yeoman farmer	Small landowners (the majority of white families in the south) who farmed their own land and usually did not own slaves.	10
7533442786	mulattoes	A person with one white parent and one black parent. Mulattoes were found primarily in the South, where White and African-American populations were in closer proximity and thus the odds of having a mixed-race child increased.	11
7533452405	chattel	An item of property other than real estate.	12
7533461912	overseer	A person who supervises others, especially workers.	13
7533475678	Peculiar Institution	Term used in the 19th century to refer to the system of slavery in the southern states of the US	14
7533501534	natural increase	The growth of the slave population through reproduction	15
7533509458	Sambo	Stereotype of blacks as childlike people	16