Slavery
This invention increased U.S. production, profits, and dependency on cotton as a cash crop.
The Cotton Gin
Fear of this happening led to the enactment of slave codes in the South.
Slave revolts.
The network of safe houses and escape routes used by enslaved individuals to reach freedom in the North.
Underground Railroad
What is called to leave one's own country to settle permanently in another?
Emigration
Before the 19th century, more people arrived in the Americas from Africa than from any other region by this means.
The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade
This 17th-century law, defined a child’s legal status based on the status of its mother and held significant consequences for enslaved African Americans.
Partus sequitur ventrem
This revolution which was the only uprising of enslaved people that resulted in overturning a colonial, slaveholding government. It transformed a European colony into a Black republic free of slavery and created the second independent nation in the Americas, after the U.S. It inspired uprisings in other African diaspora communities, such as the Louisiana Slave Revolt (1811), one of the largest on U.S. soil, and the Malê Uprising of Muslim slaves (1835), one of the largest revolts in Brazil.
The Haitian Revolution.
This amendment abolished slavery?
13th amendment.
What were some key places suggested as an option for the emigration of African Americans?
Africa, Upper Canada, Mexico, etc.
Portugal, Great Britain, France, Spain, and the this European country were the top five enslaving nations involved in the transatlantic slave trade.
The Netherlands
This defined chattel slavery as a race-based, inheritable, lifelong condition and included restrictions against freedom of movement, congregation, possessing weapons, and wearing fine fabrics, among other activities.
Slave codes.
Breaking tools, feigning illness, staging slowdowns, committing acts of arson and sabotage, would be classified as this type of resistance.
Covert Resistance
A result of the rising tension between the North and Southern states due to the issue of slavery.
Civil War.
What were the arguments FOR the emigration of African Americans back to Africa?
More opportunities in Africa, less discrimination, a closer step toward ending slavery, etc.
Enslaved Africans’ cultural contributions in the U.S. varied based on their many different places of origin. The interactions of various African ethnic groups produced multiple combinations of African-based cultural practices within African American communities.
languages and belief systems
The forced removal of Indigenous communities by the U.S. government through made lands available for large-scale cotton production in what is know as......
the Trail of Tears
Fort Morse, Stono Rebellion, Haitian Revolution, can be described as this type of resistance.
Overt Resistance
What was the time span of the abolitionist movement?
1830-1870s
What were the arguments AGAINST the emigration of African Americans back to Africa?
Blacks had earned the right to live in the United States, it was an excuse to get rid of free blacks, it would create conflict with the native Africans, etc.
To maintain local dominance and grow their wealth, African leaders sold soldiers and war captives from opposing ethnic groups. In some areas of the Americas, this led to a concentration of former African soldiers, which aided enslaved communities’ ability to do this.
Revolt
The enslaved population grew primarily through this rather than new importations, increasing the supply of enslaved agricultural laborers after the U.S. government formally banned the transatlantic slave trade in 1808
Childbirth
The emancipation from slavery offered by Spanish Florida to slaves fleeing the British colonies inspired this rebellion in South Carolina in 1739. Led by Jemmy, an enslaved man from the Angola region, nearly 100 enslaved African Americans set fire to plantations and marched toward sanctuary in Spanish Florida.
the Stono Rebellion
Name five key abolitionists.
Sojourner Truth, Harriet Tubman, Fredrick Douglass, William Lloyd Garrison, Martin Delany, etc.
What country did Thomas Jefferson suggest rebel slaves be emigrated to in his letter to King Rufus?
Sierra Leone.
Forty-eight percent (48%) of all Africans who were brought to the United States directly from Africa landed here, the center of U.S. slave trading.
Charleston, S.C