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Chapter 10-13 Slavery in the South Flashcards

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1
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What fuels the industrial revolution in America?

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textiles

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2
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What is the advantage of interchangeable parts?

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faster manufacturing

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3
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When did the importation of slaves end?

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1820

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4
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Why what was the nickname of the South?

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King Cotton

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5
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How many slaves were involved in cotton growing in 1850?

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55%

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6
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What was the Gang System?

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a large group of slaves working all day

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7
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What was one way to threaten slaves?

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“sold down the river” to a harsher climate

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8
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What type of slaves are more informed and treated for the most part better.

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The house servants

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9
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What is the average life expectancy of whites?

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43

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10
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What is the average life expectancy of blacks?

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30

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11
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How many slave marriages were broken up?

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1 in 5

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12
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What did the second great awakening do?

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it spread Christianity to the slaves

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13
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What type of slave rebellion is hidden Covert or Overt?

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Covert

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14
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What were the biggest slave rebellions?(3)

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Nat Turner, Gabrielle, Vesey

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15
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Why would free slaves stay in the South?(2)

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they may have family or they may have a job

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16
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What was the purpose of the Black Codes?

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to regulate free blacks.

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17
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What was the effect of Black Codes on Blacks?

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they had little civil rights

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18
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What is a Yeoman?

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a small farmer who works his own fields

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19
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What is the largest percentage group of the population in the South?

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the Yeoman

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20
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What was considered the richest county in America in 1850?

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Natchez, Mississippi

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21
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What did William Lloyd Garrison do?

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he wrote the Liberator against slavery

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22
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What was the gag rule?

A

congress cannot bring up anything about slavery

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23
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What did the Grimke Sisters do?

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they spoke out against slavery

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24
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What areas are in the black belt?

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Western Georgia, Alabama, and Mississippi

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25
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What was Alabama Fever?

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The mass movement of southerners into Alabama

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26
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How was Southern Slavery and Northern Industry linked?

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The North invested in Southern cotton farming.

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27
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Why were southern states loosing their political dominance?

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The population of the north was growing much more rapidly.

28
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What were slaves gathered in before they were sold?

A

Slave pens

29
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What percent of slaves were field slaves?

A

75%

30
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How were slaves forced to work on the fields?

A

They were whipped.

31
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Why were house slaves the first ones to leave?

A

They were more in the know than the ones out on the field and they commonly did not have other African Americans with them at all.

32
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Why might a slave owner allow slaves to marry?

A

They will produce more future slaves.

33
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What movement brought Christianity to slaves?

A

The second great awakening.

34
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What were black codes?

A

Laws concerning free black people

35
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What was a crucial element in the rapid growth of cotton production between 1790 and 1840?

A

the technological innovation that occurred in Great Britain

36
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As a result of large scale cotton production in the South all the money was where?

A

in the land in slaves

37
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The organization of slave labor on large plantation were

A

the gang system

38
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The result of slaves’ existence was what?

A

the development of strong familial and nonkinship relationships

39
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The ideology that southerners developed to rationalize their treatment of slaves was what?

A

paternalism

40
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The paternalistic view of slavery held that?:

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slavery was necessary to protect blacks from the mistreatment and abuse they would receive if they were freed.

41
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Hinton R. Helper’s The Impending Crisis of the South was intended as?:

A

an argument against slavery as an economic institution.

42
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Antislavery sentiment underlay the formation in 1840 of the?:

A

Liberty Party.

43
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Which was true of free blacks living in the North during the thirty years prior to the Civil War?:

A

racial tensions often exploded into riots

44
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The American Colonization Society was an antislavery organization that?:

A

advocated the forced shipment of freed slaves to Africa.

45
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William Lloyd Garrison pledged his dedication to?:

A

the immediate abolition of slavery in the South

46
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What was the main result of the rapid growth of American cities during this period?

A

the deepening of sharp class differences

47
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The temperance movement resulted in what?

A

a sharp drop in the per capita consumption of alcohol

48
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The area of upstate New York that experienced numerous waves of reform was known as the what district?

A

Burned-over district

49
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The first American college to allow African American and female students was?

A

Oberlin

50
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What was an effective way Americans responded to the market economy?

A

by developing a deep and profound passion for improving society

51
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What is the name of the slave ship that escaped American and Spanish control by a slave rebellion?

A

Amistad

52
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Who wrote American Slavery as it is?

A

Theodore Dwight Weld and the Grimke Sisters

53
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What happened at the Astor Place Riot?

A

a riot in a theatre in New York between immigrants and native born

54
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What are Big City Machines?

A

Large Scale formal governments inside of a city.

55
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What religion did Brigam Young promote and where did he promote it?

A

Mormonism in Utah

56
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What did Catherine Beecher want?

A

women’s education

57
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What was the main characteristic of the Oneida community?

A

a weird system of family systems and marriage

58
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What document was a copy of the Declaration of Independence but for women and where was it written?

A

Declaration of Sentiments at the Seneca Falls Convention

59
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Who led the asylum movement and fought for women rights?

A

Dorothea Dix

60
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What is the name for promoting Christianity?

A

Evangilism

61
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What institution fought for rights of women and countered prostitution?

A

Female Reform Society

62
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Who was the leader of the second great Awakening?

A

Finney Charles

63
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What did Harris Mann want?

A

a reform of education

64
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What mormon leader was killed?

A

Joseph Smith

65
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Who wrote the abolitionist newspaper the Liberator?

A

William Lloyd Garrison

66
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What were the millerites?

A

a break off group of society who felt that Jesus would come in 1843

67
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What did the Missouri Compromise do?

A

prohibited slavery in the former Louisiana Territory north of the parallel 36°30′ north except within the boundaries of the proposed state of Missouri.

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