AP US History Chapter 11 Flashcards

13862557957	"King Cotton"	due to the cotton gin, states such as alabama, mississippi, louisiana, and texas began creating cotton, the boom of the cotton market	0
13862557958	"deep south"	differentiated as those states most dependent on plantations and slave societies during the pre - Civil War era	1
13862559953	DeBow's Review	a widely circulated magazine of "agricultural, commercial, and industrial progress and resources" in the American south during the upper middle of the 19th century, from 1846 - 1884	2
13862559954	"peculiar institution"	another name for slavery, the owning of african americans for labor purposes	3
13862566044	Slaves Codes	laws meant to restrict the lives of african americans that said that they could marry, stay outside after a certain period of time, could practice their own religion, couldn't socialize, and more	4
13862582875	Manumission	formal emancipation from slavery, release from slavery, an owner freeing his/her slaves	5
13862582876	Amistad	53 illegally purchased African slaves being transported from Cuba aboard the Spanish- built schooner Amistad staged a successful mutiny, intercepted at Long Island and thrown in jail	6
13862588642	"Sambo"	a derogatory term for a black person or a person of mixed race, the name given to the blacks during the slavery era	7
13862591954	Gabriel Prosser	another person who caused the first major slave rebellion in the history of the United States, caused the whites to fear the slaves in the South	8
13862591955	Nat Turner	leader of a slave rebellion that occurred in Virginia, turner led approximately 60 in revolt, first killing the family of his owner and then killing 55 white people in the surrounding neighborhood, turner and his followers were executed	9
13862602947	"Underground railroad"	the system of secret routes that slaves used to escape slavery and to go the north/Canada where slavery was forbidden	10
13862611828	Pidgin	the language that the african americans spoke that was the combination of english and the african american language	11