Ch 11 Flashcards
What did the Missouri compromise say?
- Missouri would enter the union as a slave state
- Maine would enter the union as a free state
- slavery outlawed in rest of Louisiana Territory
Last northern state to emancipate slaves in 1804
New Jersey
Who was the great compromiser of the Missouri compromise?
Henry Clay
What eventually happened to the Missouri compromise?
It was challenged and abolished
What was the cash crop of the south?
Cotton
What argument did the south use to defend slavery?
The slaves were treated better than northern workers
Independent farmers, largest part of southern white society
Yeoman farmers
Why did yeoman farmers tolerate slavery?
They hoped they would one day own slaves
Wrote “the impending crises of the south”, argued that the south should industrialize
Hinton Rowan a Helper
Most stages lived on
Plantations
These were developed with people living on the same plantation, big part of slave life since families were often torn apart by the slave trade
Kinships
Laws made to limit the rights of slaves
The black codes
Most of the slave resistance was…
Passive
Nicknamed Moses, helped bring slaves through Underground Railroad
Harriet Tubman
Intelligent slave who planned a rebellion in Virginia that never began because of weather, sent to death
Gabriel Prosser
Free, prosperous, African American who led an unsuccessful slave rebellion in South Carolina
Denmark vessey
Led a bloody slave rebellion in Southampton Virginia, claimed god had sent him signs to rebel
Nat turner
A central part of slave culture and life
Religion
Abolitionist who started “the Liberator”, the first publication by a white author demanding abolition rather than gradual emancipation
William Lloyd Garrison
Determined by difference is status
Class
Determined by race
Caste
You were considered this if you owned 20+ slaves
Planter
A system of slave labor that allowed slaves to have more control over the pace of labor
Task system
System of slavery that involved tough work from sunup to sundown
Gang system
