Terms
Refers to the time before the Civil War and after the War of 1812
Antebellum
A person who moves somewhere permanently
Immigrants
A government system in which men hold the power
Patriarchy
A compromise stating that 5 slaves would equate to 3 people
Three-Fifths Clause
A machines that separates cotton fibers from their seeds.
Cotton Gin
Refers to slavery
Peculiar Institution
Anti-slavery newspaper written by Fredrick Douglass
North Star
A policy that protects native born people as opposed to immigrants
Nativism
An act that required slaves to be returned to their owner even if they were in a free state
Fugitive Slave Act
A slave rebellion that leaked - resulting in 25 people being lynched
Gabriel's Conspiracy
Traditional act done at African American weddings
Jumping the Broom
A policy that protects native born people as opposed to immigrants
Nativism
Decisions made in order to govern people
Paternalism
The action of banning a system, practice, or institutions
Abolition
Admitted Missouri a slave state and Maine a free state.
Missouri Compromise
A way of convincing slaveholders to release their slaves by appealing to them through Christianity
Moral Suasion
The first person killed in the Boston Massacre
Crispus Attucks
The right to vote
Suffrage
Release from slavery
Manumission
The spark of economic growth and individual wealth
Market Revolution
The belief that the expansion of the United States was inevitable
Manifest Destiny
Antislavery newspaper written by William Lloyd Garrison
The Liberator
The act of being set free from legal, social, and political restrictions
Emancipation
A slave rebellion that took place near Cuba
Amistad
A group that supports freeing slaves and paying for their voyage to West Africa
American Colonization Society