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Early Slavery
Antebellum Slavery
Miscellaneous
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: Has slavery existed since the founding of Jamestown in America? (T/F)
What is true
100
What was unique about slavery in the Unites States?
What is the Racism/racial divide, most slaves were imported, legal status of slavery,gradually adopted, morally controversial
100
Define abolition and explain why Abraham Lincoln was not one
What is the Immediate reduction of slavery and he didn’t endorse the idea entirely
200
Why didn’t the North use Slavery as a major source of labor instead of doing the labor themselves?
What is the quality of the soil and the puritan work ethic
200
How did slaves put up a resistance to their opressive white masters?
What is Slaves often worked with extreme inefficiency, ran away, or sabatoged machinery and operations on the plantation.
200
What was William Lloyd garrisons magazine called and what was the public reaction to it?
What is The liberator, and people hated him and a mob dragged him around Boston
300
Why did poor Indentured servants resent slavery?
What is their desire to be higher than anyone on the social ladder
300
What was a common saying used to describe slavery that justified it (used by Andrew Jackson) and why?
What is "A necessary Evil"- though it may have been cruel, slavery was needed in the plantations for workforce and powered all of America's economy, as eveyr region was tied to the production of cotton. Some even argued that it was better for Africans because they were savage otherwise, and with slavery they were introduced to God and given a civl lifestyle.
300
Describe the more likely leader of a slave rebellion and explain why this is
What are house slaves, more educated and close to democratic ideas
400
Give or take 5 years, when were laws first implemented to restrict persons with black skins
What is 1639
400
In what ways did the slave system on plantations represent a family?
What is Slave master= father (runs household and all the slaves in general) Mistress= mother(runs housemaids i.e. women in the cult of D), and slaves= children (controlled by slave master and mistress but fed and taken care of as if they were children)
400
who invented the cotton gin and why was it revolutionary
Who is Eli whitney and it could do the work of many slaves through one machine so it continued cotton as a cash crop, hence cotton is king
500
Give or take 5 years, when did African Import’s first exceed White Immigration
What is 1685
500
Was slavery specifically supported by a region?
What is No, slavery was supported by all regions (N,S,W). This was because all 3 regions benefited from slavery economically in the workforce that slaves provided. Also, no one was especially in favor of eliminating slavery because the type of change that abolishment brought was unwanted in an unstable time period
500
Who was the first white male murdered over the issue of abolition
Who is Elijah Lovejoy