AP US History Chapter 12 Flashcards

5519609258	coastal trade	The domestic slave trade with routes along the Atlantic coast that sent thousands of slaves to sugar plantations in Louisiana and cotton plantations in the Mississippi Valley.	0
5519609259	inland system	The slave trade system in the interior of the country that fed slaves to the Cotton South.	1
5519609260	Chattel principle	A system of bondage in which a slave has the legal status of property and so can be bought and sold.	2
5519609261	benevolent masters	Slave owners who considered themselves committed to the welfare of their slaves.	3
5519609262	republican aristocracy	The Old South gentry that built impressive mansions, adopted the manners and values of the English landed gentry, and feared federal government interference with their slave property.	4
5519609263	"positive good" arguement	An argument in the 1830's that institution of slavery was a "positive good" because it subsidized an elegant lifestyle for the white elite and provided tutelage for genetically inferior Africans.	5
5519609264	gang-labor system	A system of work discipline used on southern cotton plantations in the mid-nineteenth century in which white overseers or black drivers supervised gangs of enslaved laborers to achieve greater productivity.	6
5519609265	slave society	A society in which the institution of slavery affects all aspects of life.	7
5519609266	Alamo	The mission in San Antonio where in 1836 Mexican forces under Santa Anna besieged and massacred American rebels who were fighting to make Texas independent of Mexico. American adventurers flocked to Texas to join the rebel forces.	8
5519609267	secret ballot	Form of voting that allows the voter to enter a choice in privacy without having to submit a recognizable ballot or to voice the choice out loud to others.	9
5519609268	black Protestantism	A form of Protestantism that was devised by Christian slaves in the Chesapeake and spread to the Cotton South as result of the domestic slave trade. It emphasized the evangelical message of emotional conversion, ritual baptism, communal spirituality, and the idea that blacks were "children of God" and should be treated accordingly.	10
5519609269	task system	A system of labor common in the rice-growing regions of South Carolina in which a slave was assigned a daily task to complete and allowed to do as he wished upon its completion.	11