Slavery and Its Defenders
These slaveholders were characterized by their wealth and their ownership of at least 20 enslaved people.
Who are Planters?
This system, which we use in America to this day, relies on paying free workers for their time and labor.
What is Free Wage Labor?
This present-day state first attained independence from Mexico in 1836 before being annexed into the United States in 1845. This move spawned a war between The US and Mexico and sparked debates about the westward expansion of slavery.
What is Texas?
The _____ Party supported industrialization but opposed expanding the vote. It collapsed in the early 1850s.
What is Whig?
The Battle of Fort Sumter, in this city, was the first battle of the American Civil War.
What is Charleston?
In 1831, this enslaved person led a rebellion in Southampton County, Virginia. He was inspired by liberatory Christian theology.
Who is Nat Turner?
These people were specialized manufacturers who were threatened by de-skilling and unbeatable competition brought by industrialization. They unsuccessfully organized under the National Trades' Union in 1834.
Who are Skilled Artisans?
This concept was first thought up by John L. O'Sullivan in 1845. It stipulated that America had a divine right and a destiny to expand westward.
What is Manifest Destiny?
This politician from Illinois opposed the expansion of slavery and beat a crowded field of opponents to become the 1860 Republican nominee for President.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
These people wanted to remain in the union unless it violated their principles?
Who are conditional unionists?
This racist stereotype was unintentionally reinforced in Stanley Elkins's Slavery: A Problem in American Institutional and Intellectual Life. This stereotype claims that slavery was so brutal that it infantilized Black enslaved people.
What is the Sambo stereotype?
This concept represented a shift in factory workers' understanding of work from task-oriented to clock-oriented.
What is Time Discipline?
This term was used by northern politicians and journalists to describe southern domination of the American political sphere and these southerners' insistence on the institution of slavery.
What is "Slave Power."
This 1850 law allowed slaveholders to use federal marshals to track down escaped enslaved people, outlawed harboring escaped enslaved people in free states, and lowered the burden of proof to determine convict a suspect of escape.
What is the Fugitive Slave Act?
This fort, on Sullivan's Island, was abandoned by Union troops, then used by confederate troops to fire on Fort Sumter.
What is Fort Moultrie.
This author published The American Slave: A Composite Autobiography. This book relied on collected interviews from formerly enslaved people, and was one of the first studies of slavery in which enslaved people were given an active voice in the discussion.
Who is George P. Rawick?
The growth of this economic group, paired with the freedom of geographic movement brought by westward expansion, prevented the United States from having revolutionary unrest in the 1830s-1840s
What is the Middle Class?
This 1820 political event served to balance the number of free and slave states and illustrated a willingness for the north and south to compromise over slavery in the early 1800s.
What is the Missouri Compromise?
This concept, championed by Stephen Douglas, allowed territories attempting to join the Union to democratically vote on whether or not they would be free or slave states. This led to horrible bloodshed in Kansas as slavery and abolition supporters violently clashed to determine the future of the state.
What is Popular Sovereignty?
This doctrine, employed by President Buchanan, boiled down to not giving the seceding states what they wanted, but also not actively antagonizing them.
What is masterly inactivity?
Although he was one of the few defenders of slavery not to make a racial argument in favor of the institution, this social theorist argued that slavery should be extended to all working people in order to protect the rights and possessions of the rich.
Who is George Fitzhugh?
This company, comprised of wealthy investors pooling their resources, built large textile mills in New England, staffing mainly young women. The first and largest of their factories were in Waltham and Lowell.
What is the Boston Manufacturing Company?
One reason southern slaveholders wanted slavery to expand was because they knew that population demographics in the north gave the anti-slavery faction advantages in the House of Representatives and the presidency. Therefore, adding more slave states to the Union gave slaveholders an advantage in this body.
What is the US Senate?
This Senator was an ardent abolitionist and was beaten on the Senate floor after giving a speech denouncing slavery and insulting a Senator from South Carolina.
Who is Charles Sumner?
This state, thanks to its industrial development, was absolutely crucial for the Confederate secession to succeed?
What is Virginia?