Chapter 14-Storm Clouds Over The Nation Flashcards
“Wage slaves”
Northern workers who were so poor that the Southerners called them this.
Antebellum
Before the war period.
Northern justification
Article 6
Southern justification
Amendment 10 and the contract theory of government.
“Middle Passage”
Was perhaps the slaves worst experience.
Overseer
Distributed the work among the slaves.
Gang system
Slaves working in large groups on a common project.
Task system
Slaves given individual tasks to complete;
upon completion the slave could do as he pleased.
“Underground Railroad “
Helped blacks escape to the north.
Abolitionists
People who desired to abolish slavery.
Frederick Douglass
The leading black abolitionist.
Harriet Tubman
Worked on the Underground Railroad.
William Lloyd Garrison
Began the newspaper, the Liberator.
Horace Greeley
Antislavery journalist from the New York Tribune.
“Spirituals “
Songs that slaves sang, that often revealed how they felt and about their conditions.
Uncle Tom’s cabin
Was written by Harriet Stowe and became one of the most influential novels ever written.
Harriet Stowe
Wrote Uncle Tom’s Cabin
Stephan Douglas
He introduced a bill that applied the idea of popular sovereignty to Kansas and Nebraska.
Popular sovereignty
People were allowed to decide whether they wanted to have slavery.
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Kansas and Nebraska became states through this act.
Republican Party
Was formed in 1854 by antislavery groups
James Buchanan
Became president
Charles Sumner
Delivered an angry speech about the fighting in Kansas.
Preston Brooks
Beat up Sen. Sumner