Vocabulary
Slavery in America before the Civil War
Myth of the Antebellum South
Reality of the Antebellum South
Southern Argument to Keep Slavery
100
myth
What is a story that is not true?
100
a label for slavery
What is "Peculiar Institution"?
100
how women were to act
What is sweet, modest, and nice all the time?
100
What slavery really meant
What is working sunup to sundown, enduring beatings and mistreatment, not having money, not having freedom, not getting to live with your family, being sold as an object?
100
what slaveholders used to justify slavery
What are Bible passages?
200
overseer
Who is a person who managed the work of slaves, but was not the owner/master?
200
types of mistreatment slaves endured
What are things like beatings, whippings, lack of food, lack of shelter, separation from their own families, lack of freedom to live life as they wanted?
200
how gentlemen were to act
What is chivalrous like knights in shining armor?
200
The cotton gin was invented to help make slavery easier, but . . .
What is the cotton gin meant more slaves were needed to work harder?
200
what some believed was the difference between blacks and whites
What is that blacks were more like animals than humans?
300
Antebellum
What is a Latin word meaning "before the war"?
300
what slavery was needed for, especially in the South
What was the South's economy (flow of goods, services, and money)?
300
how slaves were to act
What is happy and satisfied with being a slave?
300
being put into animal pens
What is where slaves were kept at auctions?
300
ruled that blacks were actually property and had no rights as citizens
What is the Dred Scott Case?
400
an invention meant to improve slaves' lives, but instead it made slavery worse
What is the cotton gin?
400
buying and selling of slaves (and other objects)
What is an auction?
400
day-to-day life
What is slaves did all the work and white folks had parties and barbecue all the time?
400
Overseers did this.
What is kept slaves working and "in line"?
400
caused unrest among slaveholders
What is Nat Turner's slave revolt?
500
progeny
What is the children and other descendents of someone?
500
began in America in the 1500s when European explorers came over
What is slavery?
500
Gentlemen did not have this type of job.
What is being a businessman, but being a military man, lawyer, politician, or planter?
500
the economy of the South depended on these people
Who were slaves?
500
one reason the Civil War was fought
What is to free slaves?