King Cotton
Person who is credited with the invention of the Cotton Gin
Eli Whitney
How many free Black Americans lived in the North in antebellum America.
Approx. 250K
This rebellion in 1831 was led by a visionary black preacher and it led to the death of 60 Virginians, mostly women and children.
Nat Turner's Rebellion
Some of the earliest abolitionist efforts focused on what?
Transporting freed persons back to Africa.
This is the name of the "boundary" that is considered to divide North from South. Originally it was the southern boundary of colonial Pennsylvania
Mason-Dixon Line
This is the percentage of the world's cotton that came from the Southern States of America
75%
Which American port was the most important for trade of Cotton, especially to the British textile mills?
New Orleans
Martin Delaney
Abolitionist author of The Liberator
William Lloyd Garrison
What were some of the excuses/myths used by Southern slave owners to defend slavery?
The Bible
Master-Slave relationship resembled that of a family
Positive Good
Happy Servants vs. Northern wage slaves
Which favorite Southern author did Mark Twain accuse of having a hand in starting the Civil War because this person aroused the southerners to fight for a decaying social structure - "a sham civilization".
Sir Walter Scott
In what year did the United States end the Transatlantic Slave Trade into the U.S.?
1808
Why were free blacks in the South considered the "third race"?
Prohibited from working certain occupations
Forbidden from testifying against whites in court
Could be hijacked back into slavery
Free black woman in New York who fought tirelessly for black emancipation and women's rights
Sojourner Truth
This group of people opposed extending slavery to the western territories and were nicknamed this
Free Soilers
Which state, in the U.S., produced the most amount of cotton by 1860?
Mississippi
Floggings, violence, withholding food/water, using "breakers"
This musician living in upstate New York was kidnapped by slave traders and forced into slavery in 1841 in Louisiana
Solomon Northrup
The greatest black abolitionist of antebellum America. He escaped from bondage, was invited to the white house, and became the "face" of the abolitionist movement
Frederick Douglass
In 1836, this was passed through the House of Representatives stopping the right to petition the government to end slavery
Gag Resolution
"All these whites without slaves had no direct economic stake in the preservation of slavery, yet they were among the stoutest defenders of the slave system. Why?"
1. American Dream - upward social mobility was easier
2. Presumed racial superiority
These states were considered to be in the "black belt" in 1860
South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, and Louisiana
Which region of the United States were anti-black feelings often times the strongest?
The North
This person became an abolitionist due the religious spirit of the Second Great Awakening and created a potent propaganda pamphlet known as American Slavery as It Is, which greatly influenced Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin.
Theodore Dwight Weld
How much money did the Southern Plantation owners owe the Northern banks, effectively tying the North to slavery as much as the South?
300 Million