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The period from 1820 to 1860 is known as the
What is the antebellum era?
100
Describe three ways in which female slaves tried to resist slavery
Truancy, feigning illness, playing the lady, theft, illegal parties. Also, less likely, infanticide, abortion, suicide, poisoning, etc.
100
According to the U.S. Census, how many slaves (approximately) ran away from the slave states each year during the 1850s?
1,000.
100
How did African Americans react to the election of Abraham Lincoln?
Black Northerners and white abolitionists were not eager to see Abraham Lincoln become president.
100
This constitutional amendment abolished slavery in the United States.
What is the thirteenth amendment?
200
In 1793, Eli Whitney invented this, which increased the production of cotton in the U.S.
What is the cotton gin?
200
Who said: "We were all ranked together at the valuation. Men and women, old and young, married and single, were ranked with horses, sheep, and swine. There were horses and men, cattle and women, pigs and children, all holding the same rank in the scale of being, and were all subjected to the same narrow examination.”? In what text is this said?
Frederick Douglass, Narrative of Frederick Douglass (1845)
200
"I call God, I call Angels, I call men to witness, that the destruction of the Americans is at hand, and will be speedily consummated unless they repent. Should tyrants take it into their heads to emancipate any of you, remember that your freedom is your natural right. You are men, as well as they, and instead of returning thanks to them for your freedom, return it to the Holy Ghost, who is our rightful owner." This quote comes from:
What is David Walker's Appeal (1829)?
200
This Act declared that: "Any property that belonged to Confederates could be seized by federal forces."
What is the First Confiscation Act of 1861?
200
Name three responsibilities that the Freedmen’s Bureau had.
Help freedmen obtain land, gain an education, negotiate labor contracts, settle legal and criminal disputes involving black and white people, provide food, medical care, and transportation for black and white people
300
According to Eugene D. Genovese, paternalism (as it relates to slavery in the US) is defined as:
Genovese defined paternalism as "a set of mutual responsibilities or duties and customary "rights" for masters and slaves."
300
75% of the slave workforce in nineteenth century consisted ________ (what type of worker?)
What are field hands (agricultural laborers)?
300
Why is the Haitian Revolution considered the turning point in the history of slave resistance?
It was a revolutionary bid for nationhood (first black republic).
300
Describe Lincoln's initial position on the issue of slavery, immediately after his election.
Lincoln didn't want to strike against slavery. He believed in the gradual emancipation of slaves followed by colonization out of the country.
300
What was radical Reconstruction?
Radical Reconstruction initiated by radical Republicans in Congress, which brought black men into the political system as voters and office holder. The first Reconstruction Act is an example. It divided the South into five military districts, each under the command of a general. They also promoted universal manhood suffrage (voting rights).
400
What was the domestic slave trade? What stimulated it?
Slaveholders in areas like Delaware, Maryland, Virginia got rid of slaves and sold them to slave traders who then shipped slaves to slave markets in New Orleans and other cities for sale (i.e., being 'sold down the river.') The expansion of Cotton Kingdom combined with the decline of slavery in the Chesapeake stimulated the domestic slave trade.
400
Intense sectional differences over slavery became an issue in 1819 when slaveholding Missouri Territory applied for admission to the Union as a slave state. Henry Clay directed a compromise in 1820 that did three things, which were:
1. permitted Missouri to come in as a slave state 2. maintained political balance by admitting Maine as a free state 3. banned slavery north of the 36 degree, 30 line of latitude
400
Garrison's "Declaration of Sentiments" stressed three main points. They were:
1. immediate abolition of slavery 2. an end to racial discrimination 3. "moral suasion" and "non-resistance"
400
What was the 54th Massachusetts Regiment? What did their courage and sacrifice demonstrate?
The 54th Massachusetts Infantry Regiment was a regiment of black soldiers that fought in the Civil War. The courage and sacrifice of the 54th helped to dispel doubt within the Union Army about the fighting ability of black soldiers.
400
Where does the the slogan, “Forty acres and a mule,” come from?
Union General William T. Sherman announced that freedmen would receive land. In January 1865 he issued Special Field Order #15 and land was set aside in places like South Carolina. The head of each family would receive “possessory title” to 40 acres of land. Sherman also gave freedmen the use of army mules, thus giving rise to the slogan.
500
What were black laws?
Laws that discriminated against free black people and prohibited or penalized their migration to northwestern and southern states
500
What are the four components of the Compromise of 1850?
1. Admission of California as a free state 2. Elimination of the slave trade (but not slavery) in DC 3. Stronger fugitive slave law (Fugitive Slave Act) 4. New Mexico and Utah would be organized as territories with no mention of slavery
500
What three compromises were intended to avoid Civil War? Name them (as well as the year they were passed).
The Missouri Compromise (1820) The Compromise of 1850 The Kansas-Nebraska Act (1854)
500
What did the Emancipation Proclamation (January 1863) accomplish (besides the obvious--assuring freedom to 4 million people of African descent) when it was issued?
1. It made it the Civil War about a war to free people, which gave moral authority to cause of the Union. 2. It destroyed any chance of Great Britain or France to offer diplomatic recognition of Confederate government. 3. It weakened the Confederacy’s ability to continue war.
500
The Compromise of 1877 between the Republican Party and southern white leaders guaranteed two things:
1. Federal troops would be withdrawn from the South 2. Guarantee election of Rutherford B. Hayes