Chapter 10-13 Slavery in the South Flashcards
What fuels the industrial revolution in America?
textiles
What is the advantage of interchangeable parts?
faster manufacturing
When did the importation of slaves end?
1820
Why what was the nickname of the South?
King Cotton
How many slaves were involved in cotton growing in 1850?
55%
What was the Gang System?
a large group of slaves working all day
What was one way to threaten slaves?
“sold down the river” to a harsher climate
What type of slaves are more informed and treated for the most part better.
The house servants
What is the average life expectancy of whites?
43
What is the average life expectancy of blacks?
30
How many slave marriages were broken up?
1 in 5
What did the second great awakening do?
it spread Christianity to the slaves
What type of slave rebellion is hidden Covert or Overt?
Covert
What were the biggest slave rebellions?(3)
Nat Turner, Gabrielle, Vesey
Why would free slaves stay in the South?(2)
they may have family or they may have a job
What was the purpose of the Black Codes?
to regulate free blacks.
What was the effect of Black Codes on Blacks?
they had little civil rights
What is a Yeoman?
a small farmer who works his own fields
What is the largest percentage group of the population in the South?
the Yeoman
What was considered the richest county in America in 1850?
Natchez, Mississippi
What did William Lloyd Garrison do?
he wrote the Liberator against slavery
What was the gag rule?
congress cannot bring up anything about slavery
What did the Grimke Sisters do?
they spoke out against slavery
What areas are in the black belt?
Western Georgia, Alabama, and Mississippi
What was Alabama Fever?
The mass movement of southerners into Alabama
How was Southern Slavery and Northern Industry linked?
The North invested in Southern cotton farming.
Why were southern states loosing their political dominance?
The population of the north was growing much more rapidly.
What were slaves gathered in before they were sold?
Slave pens
What percent of slaves were field slaves?
75%
How were slaves forced to work on the fields?
They were whipped.
Why were house slaves the first ones to leave?
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.
Why might a slave owner allow slaves to marry?
They will produce more future slaves.
What movement brought Christianity to slaves?
The second great awakening.
What were black codes?
Laws concerning free black people
What was a crucial element in the rapid growth of cotton production between 1790 and 1840?
the technological innovation that occurred in Great Britain
As a result of large scale cotton production in the South all the money was where?
in the land in slaves
The organization of slave labor on large plantation were
the gang system
The result of slaves’ existence was what?
the development of strong familial and nonkinship relationships
The ideology that southerners developed to rationalize their treatment of slaves was what?
paternalism
The paternalistic view of slavery held that?:
slavery was necessary to protect blacks from the mistreatment and abuse they would receive if they were freed.
Hinton R. Helper’s The Impending Crisis of the South was intended as?:
an argument against slavery as an economic institution.
Antislavery sentiment underlay the formation in 1840 of the?:
Liberty Party.
Which was true of free blacks living in the North during the thirty years prior to the Civil War?:
racial tensions often exploded into riots
The American Colonization Society was an antislavery organization that?:
advocated the forced shipment of freed slaves to Africa.
William Lloyd Garrison pledged his dedication to?:
the immediate abolition of slavery in the South
What was the main result of the rapid growth of American cities during this period?
the deepening of sharp class differences
The temperance movement resulted in what?
a sharp drop in the per capita consumption of alcohol
The area of upstate New York that experienced numerous waves of reform was known as the what district?
Burned-over district
The first American college to allow African American and female students was?
Oberlin
What was an effective way Americans responded to the market economy?
by developing a deep and profound passion for improving society
What is the name of the slave ship that escaped American and Spanish control by a slave rebellion?
Amistad
Who wrote American Slavery as it is?
Theodore Dwight Weld and the Grimke Sisters
What happened at the Astor Place Riot?
a riot in a theatre in New York between immigrants and native born
What are Big City Machines?
Large Scale formal governments inside of a city.
What religion did Brigam Young promote and where did he promote it?
Mormonism in Utah
What did Catherine Beecher want?
women’s education
What was the main characteristic of the Oneida community?
a weird system of family systems and marriage
What document was a copy of the Declaration of Independence but for women and where was it written?
Declaration of Sentiments at the Seneca Falls Convention
Who led the asylum movement and fought for women rights?
Dorothea Dix
What is the name for promoting Christianity?
Evangilism
What institution fought for rights of women and countered prostitution?
Female Reform Society
Who was the leader of the second great Awakening?
Finney Charles
What did Harris Mann want?
a reform of education
What mormon leader was killed?
Joseph Smith
Who wrote the abolitionist newspaper the Liberator?
William Lloyd Garrison
What were the millerites?
a break off group of society who felt that Jesus would come in 1843
What did the Missouri Compromise do?
prohibited slavery in the former Louisiana Territory north of the parallel 36°30′ north except within the boundaries of the proposed state of Missouri.
