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The Jackson Era
Blacks on the Border
Black Institutions
Regions
Creating Black Americans
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Between 1800 and 1860, transformed the North into a modern industrial society characterized by commercial farming, factory production, and national markets.
What is the market revolution?
100
Black refugee during the war of 1812 who named himself after a town outside of Halifax and formed the African Abolition Society?
Who is Richard Preston?
100
Grew out of the Free African Society (FAS) which Richard Allen, Absalom Jones, and others established in Philadelphia in 1787. When officials at St. George’s pulled blacks off their knees while praying, they started this.
What is the African Methodist Episcopal Church?
100
Despite significant challenges some blacks like James Forten, John Redmond, Louis Hayden, and Stephen Smith were all able to become wealthy in this region.
What is the Urban North?
100
The isolation of this place in Georgia from the main currents of Anglo-American culture and the continuing fusion of new Africans encouraged its black population to retain important aspects of West African cultures and culturally closer to Africa than any other blacks in continental North America.
What are the Sea Islands?
200
The most significant political innovation of the early nineteenth century was the abolition of property qualifications for voting and office-holding that led to this. Most states explicitly denied the right to vote to free African Americans.
What is universal white manhood suffrage?
200
Between 1820 and 1860, 20% of African Americans left the United States to establish permanent residence in Africa and two other places. (Name one).
What is Canada and Hayti (Haiti)?
200
In 1854 Rev. John Miller Dickey, a Presbyterian minister, and his wife, Sarah Emlen Cresson, a Quaker, founded this school for the education of African Americans to serve as missionaries in Africa.
What is Ashmum Institute (Lincoln University)?
200
Free blacks people living in this region were more at risk of being enslaved than black northerners, hence they had to carry free papers, but they faced less competition from immigrants.
What is the Upper South?
200
American colonists had no experience with the cultivation of rice, and they needed African slaves who knew how to plant this difficult crop. White plantation owners in South Carolina and Georgia often purchased slaves from the "Windward Coast"—the traditional rice-growing region of West Africa, stretching from Senegal down to Sierra Leone and Liberia whose descendants in the U.S. today are referred to as this.
What is Gullah/Geechee?
300
On December 10, 1832, President Andrew Jackson issued a proclamation to the people of South Carolina that disputed a states' right to invalidate a federal law. Jackson's proclamation was written in response to an ordinance issued by a South Carolina convention that declared that the tariff acts of 1828 and 1832 "are unauthorized by the constitution of the United States, and violate the true meaning and intent thereof and are null, void, and no law, nor binding upon this State."
What is the Nullification Crisis?
300
In 1796 over five hundred of these were exiled to Nova Scotia because of their warfare against the British.
Who are the Jamaican Maroons?
300
On March 6, 1775, this free black was made a Master Mason in Irish Constitution Military Lodge No. 441, along with fourteen other African Americans but all the new black lodges that were created bear his name.
Who is Prince Hall?
300
Most the free blacks who lived here were men. They settled in this region with the Chinese, Jamaicans, and Latin Americans.
What is the Far West?
300
African Americans, regardless of location, shared a common experience with this that often united them regardless of class, religion, or political orientation.
What is race?
400
The Democrats and Jackson defeated the National Republicans in 1828 and 1832 and maintained their hold on the presidency when they bested this party—a union of former National Republicans, Antimasons, and some states' rights advocates--in 1836.
Who are the Whigs?
400
During the War of 1812, he issued a proclamation that any black person who made it to a British vessel or military post would be free and given land.
Who is Vice Admiral Alexander Cochrane?
400
The first African-American owned and operated newspaper published in the United States.
What is Freedom's Journal?
400
The fewest free blacks lived here. Many were the product of relationship between slave holders and enslaved women. Others traced their ancestry to Haiti. A complex three-caste system was also adopted to ensure loyalty.
What is the Deep South?
400
Until whites began to use it in a derogatory fashion, blacks in the late 18th and early 19th century often referred to themselves as this. They later began to replace it with Negro and Colored.
What is African?
500
". . . . It is said slavery is wrong . . . and contrary to the spirit of Christianity . . . we . . . deny most positively, that there is anything in the Old or New testament, which would go to show that slavery, when once introduced, ought at all events to be abrogated (abolished), or that the master commits any offense in holding slaves. The children of Israel themselves were slaveholders, and were not condemned for it . . . they were permitted expressly to purchase slaves of the heathen, and keep them as an inheritance for their posterity; and even the children of Israel might be enslaved for six years. When we turn to the New Testament, we find not one single passage at all calculated to disturb the conscience of an honest slaveholder."
What is Thomas R. Dew’s Defense of Slavery, 1832?
500
Tell it not to barbarians, lest they refuse to be civilised, and eject our christian missionaries from among them, that in the nineteenth century of the christian era, laws have been enacted in some of the states of this great republic, to compel an unprotected and harmless portion of our brethren to leave their homes and seek an asylum in foreign climes: and in taking a view of the unhappy situation of many of these, whom the oppressive laws alluded to, continually crowd into the Atlantic cities, dependent of their support upon their daily labour, and who often suffer for want of employment, we have had to lament that no means have yet been devised for their relief. These considerations have led us to the conclusion, that the formation of a settlement in the British province of Upper Canada, would be a great advantage of the people of colour.
What is Richard Allen, “Address to the Free People of Colour of these United States,” 1830?
500
1791 c 335 s 2 Slaves offering forged free papers to be whipped. 23. If any slave shall be guilty of producing any forged free pass or certificate, he or she so offending, shall on conviction before any Justice of the peace, be sentenced to receive as many lashes on his bare back, not exceeding thirtynine, as the said justice may in his discretion direct.
What is the North Carolina slave code?
500
Slave in this cultural region were far less likely to maintain cultural connections to Africa than in French or Spanish regions.
What is British North America?
500
It focuses on the life of a woman of mixed racial heritage who works as an indenturedservant for a white family in the North.
What is Our Nig?