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Define plantation?

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Large farms that developed instead of towns so that planters could ship their goods directly to the northern colonies and Europe without the need for city dock facilities.

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Cash Crop?

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Selling all of the crop for money not personal use

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Why was there a diverse population?

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An influx of European immigrants in both northern and southern colonies. Germans in the south and also Irish because of the potato famine

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Plantation life?

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Rich, balls, servants, and banquets

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What was the role of women in the late 1700s?

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Women couldn’t vote preach or own property. Their day-to-day life was milking cows, slaughtering animals, gardening, and if they lived on the plantation they had servants.

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What is an indentured servant?

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A white usually male that comes from a prison or poverty in Europe to have a life of sorta slave but paid $

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Why couldn’t Native Americans be slaves?

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Hey were very hard to teach technique for farming and would run away easily.

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Why did slavery go from Native Americans to African-Americans?

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Because African-Americans were more bang for their buck and they felt they were inferior people.

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What was the European slave trade like?

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West Indies imported slaves to work at sugar plantations. Triangle trade from New England to Africa.

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What is the middle passage?

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The journey for African-Americans from Africa to America. They were usually abused during the trip there were horrible conditions and 20% died.

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Farm slavery in the south?

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Wake up early, eat barely any breakfast, work, noon is dinner, work until the sun goes down.

Often abused, and marked so that the owner could find them if they ran away.

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House servants?

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Cooked, clean, raised kids, but we’re still abused

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What is Gullah?

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Spoken by African-Americans and still spoken in isolated communities. Some words contributed towards English.

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African-American culture?

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Wove baskets, sang, danced, preached and told stories. Owners often tried to stop the culture.

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African-American burial dance?

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It was a tribute to ancestors and God, they often danced and sang songs.

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African-Americans family as a slave?

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If a child’s parents were taken then a Nother family would take the kids in.

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How did slaves resist?

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Faked illness, broke machines and tools, slowdown work anyway they could

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What is the Stono rebellion?

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20 or so slaves with weapons killed several plantation families. White militia try to stop them and some slaves ended up getting killed.

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Marriage between Native Americans and slaves?

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Runaway slaves and Native Americans often were married.

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Abolition?

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Movement to outlaw slavery.

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What did Will Garrison do?

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He wrote an antis slavery paper called the Liberator, about emancipation or the stopping of slavery.

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David Walker?

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Urge blacks to rise up and fight for freedom instead of waiting for slaveholders.

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What did free blacks do in the south?

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434,000 free blacks worked as day laborers.

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How or free blacks treated in the north?

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Job discrimination and lots of segregation and prejudice.

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What was Frederick Douglass’s early life?

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He was born into slavery and learn to read by his owners wife, the wife was yelled at by the husband and was told to stop. Then Douglass escaped using another blacks identification.

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After escaping want to Frederick Douglass do?

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Frederick Douglass became a lecture on antis slavery and begin antis slavery paper.

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What happened to the population of slaves in the early 1800s.

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It doubled.

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What were changes to slavery happening in the 18th century?

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More women slaves. And now more slaves were born in America so they could speak English. The rise of plantations.

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What was rule slavery like?

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Women children and men all worked Dawn until dusk.

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What were the living conditions of rural slaves?

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Rough wooden furniture classless windows fireplace out of sticks in mind that was prone to fire.

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What was Urban slavery like?

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  • Because Cotton was selling well all white man went into farming cotton which meant slaves had to work in the mines.
  • sleep soy specialized skills were in high demand and could hire themselves out as artisans
  • if hired out to a factory owners would take all money without supervising
  • The city slave was almost a freeman compared to a slave on a plantation
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Who is Nat Turner?

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He was a plantation slave and he left after he was beaten severely but stayed in the area to preach because he thought he had to lead his fellow slaves to freedom.

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What was Nat Turner’s rebellion?

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50 followers attacked 4 plantations but then an alarm had the whites take 16 of Nat Turner’s men. Nat Turner was eventually captured and hung.

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Slaver revolt 1811?

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300 slaves marched with axes around town but were taken down by militia.

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What did Virginia Gov. John Floyd want? And what happened at the debate that followed?

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He wanted a law that gradually abolished slavery in Virginia. I’m good debate non-slaveholding whites who were an advocate of gradual abolition and that slavery injured the state in endangered whites. The debate was lost by 73 258 vote.

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What does antebellum mean?

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Pre-Civil War

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What were some slave codes?

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No preaching without an owner, no owning guns, buying alcohol, assembling in public, testifying in court, can’t own private property, learn to read/right, or work independently

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What were some proslavery arguments?

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Based on bible: servants had to obey masters because in the Bible it said that you must respect your parents. Slavery helped blacks by converting them to Christianity. And it was better than being a wage slave in the north.

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What is a gag rule?

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Eliminating or preventing to be on an issue again. The gag rule prevented discussion in congress of abolition petitions which means that citizen submitting petitions had been deprived of the right to have them heard.

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What was the Civil War based on?

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Politics, economics, slavery, tariffs, and state rights.

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What did the north control?

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Banks, canals, goods were bought by South

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Who passed the Missouri compromise? And what did it do?

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Henry Clay passed it. And it was a compromise that all states below the line at which Missouri was where slave and above was free.

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What state was the first to secede from the union?

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South Carolina

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Who was the president of the Confederate?

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Jefferson Davis

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What is the Fugitive slave act?

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Fugitives could not have a trial by jury or testify on their own behalf.

45
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People get anything for turning in fugitive slaves?

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Yes $10.

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What did northerners do to resist the law?

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  • They got together and sent slaves to Canada
  • An angry Boston man killed a guard to try and rescue a fugitive
  • nine north of there and states passed personal liberty laws which forbid the prisoning of fugitives and gave them a trial by jury.
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The life of Harriet Tubman?

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Was hit on the head and had brain damage in her early life then her owner died so she ran to Philadelphia and helped 300 slaves to freedom. The south wanted her for $40,000.

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What is the underground railroad?

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The secret network of people who hid fugitives in tunnel’s and cupboards.

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Abraham Lincoln?

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Self educated, one term in Congress. He ran for Senate against Stephen Douglas. He said that US couldn’t survive long in such a deep gulf between North and south. To counteract Lincoln challenged Stephen Douglas to debates while running for Senate.

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Dred Scott versus Stanford?

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Dred Scott was a slave in his owner took him to Illinois (A Freestate).
• Scott sued his owner because since he was in a free state he thought he should be free to

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What did the Supreme Court wonder in the Dred Scott versus Stanford case? What was the outcome?

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They wondering is Scott the citizen is so because he’s in a free state does that make him free? Roger be tanning said that Scott was an inferior class of beings and that he couldn’t sue the federal court.

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What was the Lecompton constitution?

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Look Contin Kansas Delta Constitution and wanted admission to the union
• abolitionist voted against the Constitution because it protected slaveholders it was turned down

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What was Stephen Douglas is a position and what arguments did he make?

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Douglas believed deeply and popular sovereignty, he didn’t think slavery was immoral but wasn’t suitable for Kansas and Nebraska. Douglas did win the Senate seat.

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What was Lincolns position and arguments?

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When can thought slavery could only be diminished if there was a law against it.

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How did the debates between Stephen Douglas and Abraham Lincoln affect Abraham Lincoln when running for the presidency?

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The debates made Lincoln look like an everyday man and many people thought he would be a great president because of them and it brought him a lot of fame.

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What is the Freeport doctrine?

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Douglas said territories couldn’t exclude slavery until they were state.

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What was the compromise of 1850?

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The issue being resolved was weather California and the eight other territories were free or slave
• written by Henry Clay
• California should be a Freestate
• rest of Mexican land would be under popular sovereignty
• DC can’t buy slaves
• fugitive slave law passed

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Who is Harriet Beecher Stowe?

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Wrote uncle Tom’s cabin which is a story about a woman with the baby and she dies in the river and it showed America how cruel slavery was.

59
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What is the Kansas Nebraska act?

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Stephen Douglas was the author
• wanted transcontinental to go through the North (a train)
• Southern Congressman agree to stop fighting if there was popular sovereignty

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What is bleeding Kansas?

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It was the response to the Kansas Nebraska fight. Anti-slavery and proslavery people flocked to Kansas to get control. It was a small-scale Civil War.

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What happened when the Republican Party was formed in 1854?

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  • They wanted the Kansas and Nebraska act repealed
  • they wanted to repeal the fugitive law
  • wanted completely outlawed slavery in DC
  • very popular in North and not in the south
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What was the election of 1856?

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  • Democrats refuse to renominate Franklin Pierce and instead choose James Buchanan.
  • republicans choose John C Fremont
  • The know nothings choose former Pres. Millard Fillmore
  • James Buchanan wins
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What is popular sovereignty?

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The right of residents of the territory to vote for or against slavery

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Issues with states rights?

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  • Constitutional convention: the constitution try to resolve the original debate overstates rights versus federal authority
  • nullification: the state of South Carolina moved to nullify or declare void the terrorist set by Congress
  • South Carolina secession: the conflict over states rights to secede or withdraw from the union lead to the Civil War
  • Little Rock Central high school: some southern governors refused to obey federal desegregation mandates for schools

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