Abolitionists and Southern Defense GQ 4/6/16 Flashcards
What year did Nat Turner organize a revolt?
1831
What did Turner claim gave him the idea for a revolt?
Religious visions and speaking to God
How many people were killed in the revolt?
75 men, woman and children
How did the white southerners respond to the revolt?
They increased slave patrols and tightened their ever more repressive slave codes.
Besides violent uprising, how did slaves resist or revolt?
Ran away
Fled to Indians and joined them in war against white settlers
Poisoned mattress and mistress
Banded together and stopped working
What did John Calhoun think of slavery?
He was for slavery
What was the gag rule?
Forbid the discussion of bills that restricted slavery
Who was considered the vocie of abolitionism?
William Loyd Garrison
Which states did the Mason-Dixon Line separate?
Maryland and Pennsylvania
