History "The World Of Slavery" #4 Flashcards
Cash Crop
- a crop you grow that makes you money & you can’t eat.
ex: Cotten
How was slavery seen by people in the South?
- It was seen as a necessary evil
- an economic necessity
In the South who owned slaves?
How did they get the slaves to work?
- Elites would own slaves
-They would bring them out through fear
What was the purpose of “Puttin on the Massa”. How would a slave do this?
- It was to maintain a slave’s dignity
- A slave would not do their best work so the Master couldn’t get the best out of you
- essentially it was cheating on the Master
How many slaves would someone own in the South if they didn’t have a big plantation?
10 slaves.
What were Quaker’s 2 main beliefs?
- working hard
- scripture
What would happen in 1808?
The legal importation of slaves would end in the U.S.
Who is William Lloyd Garrison?
What did he believe in until he met Fredrick D.?
- He was an abolitionist against slavery
- he thought the repatriation to Africa was a good idean
What would William Lloyd Garrison do with slave holders?
What book would be published?
- He would preach no compromise with slave holders
- He would publish the “Liberator”
What were some strategies Abolitionists would use to speak out against slavery?
- They would use propaganda
- They would use the steam press
- send printed articles nationwide. - they used circuit speakers across the U.S.
- They used outdoor meetings and church pulpits (black-robed militias) to raise awareness.
- Preached resistance without violence
Who where the “Black-robed militia”
- They spoke on immorality in slavery
- every Sunday
Why was John Brown so crazy?
- He would go on a killing spree on people who supported slavery
- was called the father of terrorism.
What were Harriet Tubman’s 2 nick names when she was with the underground railroad. ?
- The conductor
- Black Moses
In the North what was going on?
Whose ideology was being fleshed out?
The industrial Revolution
Hamaltin’s ideals where being fleshed out.
What where some benefits of the Industrial Revolution?
-Money was spent on internal improvements
- (canals, railroads, stone roads)
- Increase trade. We broke into new markets like the Orient
- Excess capital was lent
Whats is the Orient?
The far east places like China, Japan, and India.
What was America’s #1 cash crop and export?
cotton
Since America has a lot of immigration what people did America not want?
- no Catholics
- Russians
- Italians
- Greeks
What is a Sponsor?
They are people who help immigrants come to America
- sign off them
- get the jobs
What were early work conditions?
- not safe
- Dark
- dirty
- dangerous
What was the number one goal of Unions?
To get 10 hr workdays
How many Unions would be formed by 1834?
300,000 trade unions
What was good about immigration what was bad about it?
- it was good because it was possible to do large amounts of work without slaves.
- it was bad because these immigrants were treated like slaves.
What immigrants did America favor?
Germans
British
Ireland
What forced Irish people to come to America?
The Potato Famine of 1848
Where was the best place to find work?
in the cities
What are wards?
Where how cities were split up
- they were run by old men
- sometimes they were corrupt.
What are Ghettos
a place where one ethnicity lived together
- they do this so they have a sense of community and culture with them
- also so they know they have someone watching their back.
What does N.I.N.A
No
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Apply
What is a dowery?
When a daughter gets married, the parents give her money or assets to the husband.
What would Mary Tod Lincon get in her dowery?
She would get slaves by a dowery in Kentucky
What was Nothern culture like?
- Three class structure
- upper
- middle
- lower - limited slavery
- thriving cities
- shipping and manufacturing
- melting pot of cultures.
What was Southern culture like?
- four classes
- planter class
- Middle-class farmers (subsistence farmers)
- Poor whites
- slaves
Subsistence Farmers
whose father was a subsistence farmer.
- growing enough food to feed your family
- Abrahams’s father was one
Western Culture
- Popular sovereignty
- The people rule
- people vote on what they want
- whether is there a free or slave state. - Individuals’ states interests
Millionaires row
70% of all American millions air before the Civil War were in this area
What was the white house based on?
The Nottoway Plantation
