History "The World Of Slavery" #4

Question 1

Cash Crop

Answer 1

• a crop you grow that makes you money & you can’t eat.

ex: Cotten

Question 2

How was slavery seen by people in the South?

Answer 2

• It was seen as a necessary evil
• an economic necessity

Question 3

In the South who owned slaves?
How did they get the slaves to work?

Answer 3

• Elites would own slaves
  -They would bring them out through fear

Question 4

What was the purpose of “Puttin on the Massa”. How would a slave do this?

Answer 4

• 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

Question 5

How many slaves would someone own in the South if they didn’t have a big plantation?

Answer 5

10 slaves.

Question 6

What were Quaker’s 2 main beliefs?

Answer 6

• working hard
• scripture

Question 7

What would happen in 1808?

Answer 7

The legal importation of slaves would end in the U.S.

Question 8

Who is William Lloyd Garrison?
What did he believe in until he met Fredrick D.?

Answer 8

• He was an abolitionist against slavery
• he thought the repatriation to Africa was a good idean

Question 9

What would William Lloyd Garrison do with slave holders?
What book would be published?

Answer 9

• He would preach no compromise with slave holders
• He would publish the “Liberator”

Question 10

What were some strategies Abolitionists would use to speak out against slavery?

Answer 10

• 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

Question 11

Who where the “Black-robed militia”

Answer 11

• They spoke on immorality in slavery
  - every Sunday

Question 12

Why was John Brown so crazy?

Answer 12

• He would go on a killing spree on people who supported slavery
  - was called the father of terrorism.

Question 13

What were Harriet Tubman’s 2 nick names when she was with the underground railroad. ?

Answer 13

• The conductor
• Black Moses

Question 14

In the North what was going on?
Whose ideology was being fleshed out?

Answer 14

The industrial Revolution
Hamaltin’s ideals where being fleshed out.

Question 15

What where some benefits of the Industrial Revolution?

Answer 15

-Money was spent on internal improvements
- (canals, railroads, stone roads)
- Increase trade. We broke into new markets like the Orient
- Excess capital was lent

Question 16

Whats is the Orient?

Answer 16

The far east places like China, Japan, and India.

Question 17

What was America’s #1 cash crop and export?

Answer 17

cotton

Question 18

Since America has a lot of immigration what people did America not want?

Answer 18

• no Catholics
• Russians
• Italians
• Greeks

Question 19

What is a Sponsor?

Answer 19

They are people who help immigrants come to America
- sign off them
- get the jobs

Question 20

What were early work conditions?

Answer 20

• not safe
• Dark
• dirty
• dangerous

Question 21

What was the number one goal of Unions?

Answer 21

To get 10 hr workdays

Question 22

How many Unions would be formed by 1834?

Answer 22

300,000 trade unions

Question 23

What was good about immigration what was bad about it?

Answer 23

• 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.

Question 24

What immigrants did America favor?

Answer 24

Germans
British
Ireland

Question 25

What forced Irish people to come to America?

Answer 25

The Potato Famine of 1848

Question 26

Where was the best place to find work?

Answer 26

in the cities

Question 27

What are wards?

Answer 27

Where how cities were split up
- they were run by old men
- sometimes they were corrupt.

Question 28

What are Ghettos

Answer 28

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.

Question 29

What does N.I.N.A

Answer 29

No
Irish
Need
Apply

Question 30

What is a dowery?

Answer 30

When a daughter gets married, the parents give her money or assets to the husband.

Question 31

What would Mary Tod Lincon get in her dowery?

Answer 31

She would get slaves by a dowery in Kentucky

Question 32

What was Nothern culture like?

Answer 32

• Three class structure
  - upper
  - middle
  - lower
• limited slavery
• thriving cities
• shipping and manufacturing
• melting pot of cultures.

Question 33

What was Southern culture like?

Answer 33

• four classes
  - planter class
  - Middle-class farmers (subsistence farmers)
  - Poor whites
  - slaves

Question 34

Subsistence Farmers
whose father was a subsistence farmer.

Answer 34

• growing enough food to feed your family
• Abrahams’s father was one

Question 35

Western Culture

Answer 35

• Popular sovereignty
  - The people rule
  - people vote on what they want
  - whether is there a free or slave state.
• Individuals’ states interests

Question 36

Millionaires row

Answer 36

70% of all American millions air before the Civil War were in this area

Question 37

What was the white house based on?

Answer 37

The Nottoway Plantation