Chapters 16-17 Test Flashcards
What was the impact of the cotton gin?
Slavery was reinvigorated
What was the nature of the “planter aristocracy” in the South?
They controlled southern political and economic life
Why was plantation agriculture environmentally wasteful?
Cotton was destructive to the soil
Why didn’t German and Irish immigrants land in the South like they did in the North?
More job opportunity in the north
What would be an accurate social description of most white southerners?
Most were white farmers who grew enough food for their own use (sustenance farmers)
Who owned most slaves in the South?
Large plantations
What did free blacks in the North face?
Discrimination
What type of working assignments were slaves given?
Slaves were usually spared the dangerous jobs
What was the “slave’s greatest horror” as presented by Harriet Beecher Stowe in Uncle Tom’s Cabin?
Family seperation
What did slave-owners use as a substitute for the wage-incentive system?
Threats
Where was the forced separation of spouses, parents, and children most common?
In the upper South
How did slaves fight the system of slavery?
- Revolts
- Work as slow as possible
- Stealing
- Breaking equipment
- Escaping
In the pre-Civil Was South, what was the most uncommon and least successful form of slave resistance?
Armed insurrection
Identify: William Lloyd Garrison
Called for immediate abolition
Identify: Wendell Phillips
Abolitionist orator
Identify: Frederick Douglass
Famous black abolitionist
Identify: Elijah P. Lovejoy
Abolitionist martyr
Why did the Whigs choose John Tyler as vice-president on the 1840 ticket?
Attracted states’ rights voters
What was the result of John Tyler’s veto of a bill to create a new bank in the U.S?
Expelled from the whig party; threatened to impeach him; cabinet resigns expect Secretary of the State Daniel Webster
What was the U.S. response to the 1837 Canadian insurrection against Britain?
We wanted to stay neutral
How was the British-American border dispute over the border of Maine solved?
Through a compromise
Identify: The Aroostook War
Dispute over northern boundary of Maine
What were the arguments for and against the annexation of Texas?
Against- it would increase slavery
Who was the primary group that settled in the Oregon territory thus strengthening and saving American claims to Oregon?
American missionaries
What attracted most Americans to Oregon?
Williamepte River Valley
Why did James K. Polk get the nod by the Democrats in 1844?
He was supported by expansionists
Identify: Manifest Destiny
duh
Where was “American Blood” shed on “American Soil” according to James K. Polk?
Rio Grande River
Identify: The Wilmot Proviso
Symbolized burning issue of slavery in the territories
Some southern slaves gained their freedom as a result of what?
purchasing their freedom
