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Servitude to Slavery-Plantation Economies
Growth of Slavery & Antebellum South
Territorial Expansion and Slavery
Abolition & the Abolitionists- Civil War
Miscellaneous
100
In the 17th and 18th century, the vast majority of Africans who survived the Transatlantic Passage ended up working on plantations in Brazil and the Caribbean; the fewest slaves were brought into British North America.
What is the Slave Trade?
100
The majority of white adult males were small farmers rather than wealthy planters in this society, and did not own slaves;yet, a small minority of planters who owned 20 or more slaves dominated this society politically and economically( called the planter elite or planter aristocracy)
What is Southern Society?
100
Specifically provided for the prohibition of slavery in lands obtained from Mexico in the Mexican War; however, it DID NOT pass Congress.
What is Wilmot Proviso?
100
The religious spirit of this event increased public awareness of the moral outrages brought on by slavery, and contributed to the growth of the abolitionist movement.
What is the Second Great Awakening?
100
Document written by Thomas Jefferson in 1776, did not call for the abolition of slavery or the slave trade, but mostly separation from Great Britain.
What is the Declaration of Independence?
200
This was legally established in all 13 colonies in the early 1700s;the supply of indentured servants from England became insufficient by the late 17th century; spread of tobacco cultivation westward created a demand for labor, as blacks displaced white indentured servants in the tobacco fields
What is Slavery in the American Colonies? (slavery)
200
Factors such as the cotton gin, rich new farmland in the Deep South, and the rise of textile manufacturing in England created enormous demand for cotton, contributed to making cotton the South's most important cash crop. A certain term was then condoned to the importance of cotton in southern economy.
What is King Cotton?
200
Provisions include Maine entering as a free state(Missouri as slave state) and the remaining territory of Louisiana Purchase above latitude 3630' would be closed to slavery. Meanwhile, this deal would keep Northerners and Southerners in Senate balanced, the first major conflict over slavery was settled, and slavery was temporarily defused as a national political issue.
What is the Missouri Compromise?
200
He issued the first call for the "immediate and uncompensated emancipation of the slaves." Is famous as being the editor of the abolitionist newspaper, called The Liberator.
Who is William Lloyd Garrison?
200
For most of the Civil War, this group of soldiers were paid less than White soldiers of equal rank. The South considered this group serving in the Union army as contraband.
What is African Americans in the Civil War?
300
The "headright" system enabled Chesapeake tobacco farmers to obtain both land and labor by importing workers from England; were the chief source of agricultural labor in Virginia and Maryland before 1675, and accounted for 75% of the 130,000 English immigrants to these colonies during the 17th century
What is Indentured Servants?
300
This slave rebellion of the 1790s prompted an increase fear of slave revolts in the South and a strengthening of the slave codes, it was led by Toussaint L'Ouverture
What is the Haiti Slave Rebellion?
300
The Supreme Court case that ruled that Black people were not citizens of the U.S. and therefore could not petition in court and established the principle that the national legislation could not limit the spread of slavery into the territories.
What is the Dred Scott Decision?
300
Written by Harriet Beecher Stowe, a book that intensified Northern opposition to slavery, giving slavery a sense of moral evil
What is Uncle Tom's Cabin?
300
The following factors contributed to the growth of this population: a)gradual emancipation laws of individual states b)manumission granted for Revolutionary war service c)manumission granted by slaveholder's wills.
What is Free African Americans?
400
Exposed tensions between backcountry farmers and tidewater gentry, and prompted the tidewater gentry to re-evaluate their commitment to the system of indentured servants. It played in the transition from indentured servants to slave labor
What is Bacon's Rebellion?
400
Set up requirements a territory needed to have before applying to statehood, excluded slavery north of the Ohio River,and the first national document containing a prohibition of slavery.
What is the Northwest Ordinance of 1787?
400
In which California was admitted into the Union as a free state, slave trade was abolished in the District of Columbia, the Fugitive Slave Act was enacted, and New Mexico and Utah created territorial governments without the state being slave or free.
What is the Compromise of 1850?
400
Most prominent Black abolitionist during the antebellum period; published in 1845 an autobiography that exposed Americans to the horrors and inhumanity of slavery; and, championed equal rights for women and Native Americans as well.
Who is Frederick Douglas?
400
The majority of this society adapted to the oppressive conditions imposed on them by developing a separate African-American culture. Revolts from this society were uncommon and most of the individuals of this society resisted their masters by feigning illness and working as slowly as possible.
What is Slave Society?
500
One of the earliest known acts of rebellion,and one of the most significant, against slavery in America; organized and led by slaves, who tried unsuccessfully to flee to Spanish Florida in hopes of freedom.
What is the Stono Rebellion?
500
Document written in 1787, guaranteed the legality of slavery in every state; the 14th amendment invalidated the 3/5 compromise, an agreement between the Southern and Northern states in which 3/5 of the population of slaves would be counted for enumeration purposes.
What is the Constitution?
500
In which Nebraska would be divided into two territories, Kansas and Nebraska and the status of slave would be decided through popular sovereignty which repealed the Missouri Compromise, heightening sectional tensions.
What is the Kansas-Nebraska At?
500
President Lincoln delayed this statement because he wanted to retain the loyalty of the Border states. The Union victory at Antietam gave Lincoln the opportunity to issue this statement; however, it only freed slaves in the Confederacy and not in the Border states. Its primary effect was to strengthen the moral cause of the Union.
What is the Emancipation Proclamation,1863?
500
Democratic Party was divided on the issue of expanding slavery into the territories; Republicans opposed the spread of slavery into the territories, but acknowledged slavery should be protected in the states where it already existed.
What is the Positions of the Republicans and Democrats on Slavery?