Final exam study set Flashcards
The idea is that in slavery, the condition/status of the mother follows the child. If the mother is enslaved, so is the child, no matter the race or status of the father.
1662 Slave Law
John Locke
A very popular cash crop when the colonies were initially founded
Tobacco
A sort of social superiority
Gentility
When coming to the colonies, people were promised more land the more people they brought to the new world. Usually indentured servants
Headright system
Declaration of Independence
The Middle passage
The Great Awakening
First enslaved African to file and win a freedom suit
Mum Bet
The original constitution. it had 1 house of congress, no president or leader, no judiciary, and no centralized power.
Articles of Confederation
John Marshall
Christian missionaries wished to live among the Cherokee tribe. The state of Georgia didn’t allow whites to live among the Cherokee. The ruling was that the Cherokee was Sovereign and Georgia had no power to regulate their lands.
Worcester v. Georgia
Signed into Law by Andrew Jackson, Natives were given land in the west in exchange for their ancestral lands. Led to the trail of tears.
Indian removal
President of the United States who was a self-made man that appealed to the middle and working class. He set forth the Indian Removal Act (Trail of Tears), opened the second bank of the United States
Andrew Jackson
a revolutionary invention that change the cotton production industry, allowing for more cotton to be produced in a shorter amount of tie. created by Eli Whitney
The Cotton Gin
Found that southern slave owners could take their slaves where they wished and enslaved didn’t have rights that white people were supposed to respect
Dred Scott Decision
It is the destiny of the United States to expand to the West
Manifest Destiny
expressed the idea that the relationship with God is personal. It democratizes American Christianity and promoted the idea of human free will. This message appealed to slaves, free blacks, women, and the middle-class. Promotes the idea of perfectionism.
2nd Great awakening
Marching slaves throughout the U.S. to new locations forcfully
the 2nd Middle passage
Culture of feminity, piety, purity, domesticity, and submissiveness, Largely a myth
Cult of domesticity