Chapter 14 Flashcards
prejudice
thinking less of someone without facts or reasons
-prejudice against African Americans
Dred Scott Decision
gave slave owners legal permission to keep their slaves
abolitionist
person who thought slavery was wrong
Underground Railroad
used to escape slavery–not underground or a railroad
Kansas-Nebraska Act
gave certain territories a choice to have slavery or not
first state to leave the Union in 1860
South Carolina
Harriet Tubman known for
being a conductor on the Underground Railroad–escaping slavery & returning to help others escape
most profitable Southern crop
cotton
why Southern states didn’t like Abraham Lincoln
he didn’t want slavery to expand into any new states
Frederick Douglas best known for
speaking against slavery
Nat Turner’s Rebellion–what happened
- group of Virginia slaves who went from farm to farm
- killed slave owners & their families
- killed about 60 people (men, women, & children)
- Turner hid in woods for 6 weeks
- rebel slaves all hung
Nat Turner’s Rebellion–results
- slave owners feared for their lives–couldn’t sleep
- whites retaliated by killing 100 slaves & free blacks
- passed laws forbidding blacks gathering in public places or going to church
- speaking against slavery became illegal in Virginia
Major differences between North & South
North
- had freed their slaves & made slavery illegal
- used many immigrants to work in factories
- manufacturing was biggest part of economy
- used Southern cotton to make clothes
- shipped cotton all around the world
Major differences between North & South
South
- main economy was farming
- cotton was main crop & most of their income
- depended on slaves to grow & pick cotton
- large plantations
- some thought slaves were better off than Northern immigrants working in factories
