Chapter 11

Question 1

Trail of Tears

Answer 1

Forced relocation of Native American tribes to a designated “Indian Territory” caused by the Indian Removal Act. Mostly influenced the Cherokee

Question 2

Second Siminole War

Answer 2

Conflicted between the U.S. gov and Siminole tribe. Resulted in the U.S. trying to enforce the Indian Removal Act and relocate the Seminole people to Indian Territory.

Question 3

Indian Removal Act of 1830

Answer 3

Combined force migration, indian reservations, and Federal land sales in a comprehensive disposession and redistribution policy leading to the trail of tears and 2nd seminole war
- Allowed the federal government to survey, divide, and auction off millions of acres of land

Question 4

“downriver”

Answer 4

An euphemism for the near constant flow of enslaved laborers down the Mississippi River to the developing cotton belt in the Southwest
-Hundred of thousand Black families being broken a part by slaveowners and merchants, breaking up 20-30% of marraiges

Question 5

State of Missouri v. Celia, a Slave

Answer 5

Case that demonstrated that:
Law not recognizing rape of enslaved people as a crime because they were property, not citizens with rights

Question 6

Curse of Ham

Answer 6

Pro-slavery theology that emphasizes obedience to enslavers, the biblical basis of racial slavery; justified slavery

Question 7

Nat Turner

Answer 7

Led one of the most famous antebellum slave rebellions.
- news spread quickly
- led an orgy of anti- Black violence and restrictions across the South
- Having a white minister present during Black religious services
- transformed southern religion, anti-literacy and black-led churches were broken and placed under supervision of white ministers