Slavery Flashcards
Why was slavery a threat to the union?
it was a central issue in the political divide between the North and South, and because the South was willing to secede from the Union to protect it
What was a result of the failure of constitutional
principles and structures to contain and channel conflict?
The Civil War
What were the following: Declaration of Independence, Two-Party Politics, Market Economic Systems, Structure and the Constitution, Consent, Checks and Balances, Federalism, the Bill of Rights, and the Separation of Powers?
Key elements to the founding
Could the key elements to the founding prevent the Civil War?
No
Why did people have slaves?
highly profitable
highly productive
The growth of slavery followed the growth of what?
Cotton
What movie shows the aristocratic society of the southerners? (rich, need for slaves to maintain lifestyle)
Gone with the Wind
Some argued that slavery was not a necessary evil, but a…
“positive good”
Who said, “Many in the South once
believed that it was a moral and
political evil; that folly and
delusion are gone; we see it now
in its true light, and regard it as
the most safe and stable basis
for free institutions in the
world….”
John C. Calhoun
___________ was an American statesman and political theorist who served as the seventh vice president of the United States from 1825 to 1832. Born in South Carolina, he adamantly defended American slavery and sought to protect the interests of white Southerners.
John C. Calhoun
Who argued that manufacturers in the North were worse than slave owners in the South?
George Fitzhugh
Who said Free laborers in the North “are slaves
without the rights of slaves.”
Fitzhugh
Who argued that slaves are free because their master provides everything they really need?
Fitzhugh
Who said these two quotes; “The difference between [North and South] is,
that our slaves are hired for life and well
compensated; there is no starvation, no
begging, no want of employment among our
people….”
“Yours are hired by the day, not cared for, and scantily compensated…. Why, you meet more beggars in one day, in any single street of the city of New York, than you would meet in a
lifetime in the whole South.”
James Henry Hammond
Who explicitly stated that he did not agree with the authors of the Declaration of Independence in all being equal and the people governing themselves?
Fitzhugh
