Slavery
This important cash crop became the staple of the Southern economy in the nineteenth century, propelling the institution of slavery into the center of American politics and society.
Cotton
Escaped slavery and became one of the most well-known abolitionists of the antebellum era; published his own autobiography of slavery and produced a newspaper, The North Star.
Frederick Douglass
This phrase defined the supremacy of the cotton trade in the years leading up the the Civil War
Cotton is King
Race is this specific type of social construction in the United States
Historical Construction
This party, founded in 1854, became the mouthpiece of abolition in the North, winning the election of 1860.
This invention made the production of cotton much easier, not lessening the labor or responsibility of enslaved people, but amplifying production and making the rich of the South much richer.
One of the most radical of white abolitionists; wrote periodical, the Liberator
William Lloyd Garrison
Southerners believed slavery was necessary to preserve this
white freedom
This event is considered a bench mark for the transition from indentured labor to slave labor in the 17th century.
Bacon's Rebellion, 1676
The Democrats nominated this moderate northern democrat from Illinois as their candidate for the 1860 election, hoping to preserve the Union
Stephen Douglas
This term describes the violent and dangerous journey of enslaved Africans from Africa to the Americas.
Middle Passage
Led an attack on the armory at Harpers Ferry in an attempt to begin an uprising of slaves in the South
John Brown
This set of ideals defined Southern white men at the top of Southern society, responsible for their families, property, and enslaved people.
Southern Paternalist Ethos
This physical characteristic became a marker for slavery in the plantation society of Virginia.
Skin color
This compromise annexed California as a Free State and abolished the slave trade in Washington, D.C.
The Compromise of 1850
4 million
Sisters who moved to Pennsylvania, became Quakers, and spoke at gatherings of abolitionists about the moral sin of slavery
The First shots of the war, fired by Southerns, in April 1861, happened here.
Fort Sumter, Charleston Harbor
stereotypes and prejudice toward 'unchristian' and 'uncivilized' peoples originated during what period in Europe
The Crusades.
This final compromise culminated in violence when southern supporters of slavery entered Kansas and clashed with anti-slavery Northerners.
Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854
The name given to forms of resistance which sought to break or hinder the use of tools by enslaved people in the South.
Silent sabotage
Harriet Beecher Stowe
This law made it possible for southern slave catchers to venture north and recapture escaped slaves--even some free African Americans who were free--in free states.
Fugitive Slave Act
This term during the revolution was interpreted quite differently by poor whites, enslaved people, and the wealthy to define the ideals/goals of independence
liberty
The supreme court decision which declared that any African American free or enslaved could be reduced to slavery at any time as they did not have rights under the Constitution
Dred Scott v. Sanford