Origins of Race
A motivation for slavery that is based around money
What is economic motivation?
This was a piece of land bought from France by Thomas Jefferson.
What is the Louisiana Purchase?
A resistance to slavery that involved getting and producing information (hint: think of the main resistance we have talked/ read about)
What is reading and writing?
The first state to secede from the Union.
What is South Carolina
The period after the Civil War.
What is reconstruction?
A motivation for slavery based on physical characteristics.
What is racial motivation?
The Constitutional Agreement where slaves counted as a fraction of a person toward political representation.
What is the 3/5ths Compromise?
The network of safehouses and people that allowed over 40000 slaves to escape.
What is the Underground Railroad?
The side of the war that had manufacturing advantage, including weaponry and railroads.
What is the North?
The 13th, 14th and 15th amendments are known as these.
What are the Civil War (or Reconstruction) Amendments?
The system that sent slaves over to the Americas from West Africa in return for European goods.
What is the Atlantic Slave Trade (or Triangular Trade)?
The invention that made slavery play a crucial role in the American economy by the 1860s, expanding it.
What is the Cotton Gin?
The Compromise that allowed California in as a free state, Utah and New Mexico to decide their status and strengthened the Fugitive Slave Acts.
What is the Compromise of 1850?
Lincoln said that the war was testing the Founding Ideals of the country, such as liberty and equality, with this speech.
What is the Gettysburg Address?
The organization that terrorized blacks into not voting.
What is the Ku Klux Klan?
What is assigning traits to people based on physical characteristics?
The main issue the North and South were worried about concerning slavery and Westward expansion.
What is representation in government (or the balance of power)?
The most famous conductor of the Underground Railroad.
Who is Harriet Tubman?
The Amendment that turned the Emancipation Proclamation into law.
What is the 13th Amendment?
The system that allowed black people to farm for a portion of the harvest, keeping them in poverty.
What is sharecropping?
Two of the three key differences between indentured servitude and chattel slavery.
What is slavery is lifelong, follows the condition of the mother and has no contract?
The Compromise that stated all states admitted below this line are slave states, while all states above would be free states.
What is the Missouri Compromise?
The acts that required Northern States to return escaped slaves.
What are the Fugitive Slave Acts?
The General who had the famous "March to the Sea"
Who is General William Tecumseh Sherman?
The President after Abe Lincoln's assassination.
Who is Andrew Johnson?