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Slavery Flashcards

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Slave ships

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West Africa to the Americas

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Triangular Trade

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North America - Great Britain - Africa

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Amistad

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Slave revolt

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Cash crops

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Tobacco rice and later cotton

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Plantations

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Large farms in the south. The planters wife supervise the main big house and the household servants. Slave cabins stables Carpender and blacksmith shops

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Plantation owners

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Had greater wealth and controlled the economic and political life of the religion

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Independent small farms

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Outnumbered the large plantation owners. Some had one or two enslaved Africans to help

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Enslaved Africans

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Some did housework but most worked in the fields. Suffered great cruelty

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Overseers

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(Bosses) to manage the slaves and keep them working hard

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Slave codes

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Strict rules governing the behavior and punishment of enslaved Africans. 1) could not leave the plantation without written permission from the master 2)could not be taught to read or write 3)or whipped for minor offenses and hang or burned to death for serious crimes 4)slaves caught trying to run away were punished severely

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Race/racism

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A person’s race determine his or her place in society

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Slave auction

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The selling or buying as slaves. Families were split up with a spouse or parent or child was sold to another slaveholder

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African traditions

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Connections to African roots. Languages customs and religions

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Quakers

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Believe in slavery and condemned the practice

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3/5 compromise

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Counting of each enslaved persons as 3/5 of a free person to both taxation and representation

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Property

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Legally slave were property

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Slave trade

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A compromise made during the Constitutional convention which allowed the international trade of slavery to continue until 1808 a (20 year period in which many expected slavery to disappear)

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African-American workers in the north

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Slavery largely disappeared from the north but African-Americans were not treated equal in all aspects of life and work. Laws in some states Americans to vote

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Prejudice

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And unfair opinion

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Discrimination

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Unfair treatment

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Segregation

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Separating people by race

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Low-paying jobs

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Damaging effect of prejudice.

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African American expectations

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Some were successful businessman.

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Immigration

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Movement of people into a country. Increase between 1840 and 1860

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Irish

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Most like Ireland each potato famine and cool rule by the British. Most were too poor to buy land

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Irish to America

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Low-paying factory jobs and manual labor

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Penal Code

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A set of laws designed to take land and civil rights away from the Irish Catholic

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No Irish need apply

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Americans did not consider Irish to be white. Hired Irish for jobs too dangerous for slaves

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Germans

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Second largest group of immigrants to the US between 1820 and 1860. Looked at as weird

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Nativists

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Not Indian. They believed immigrants were taking jobs from Americans, working for lower wages, and bringing crime and disease to cities

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Upper South

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Along the Atlantic coast in Maryland Virginia North Carolina

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Deep South

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A band of state spreading from Georgia through South Carolina Alabama Mississippi Louisiana Missouri Arkansas and Texas

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Cotton Kingdom

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Cotton became the new cash crop of the south

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Cotton gin

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A machine that remove seeds from cotton fibers; increased the amount of cotton that could be processed. Demand for slaves increased

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Industry

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Limited the south due to agriculture being so profitable, lack of capital money to invest, small market for manufactured goods, and manufacturing now welcome by some

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Transportation

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Natural waterways, if you canals and poor roads, Rail lines were short and local one third of Nations braille lines in South

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Yeomen

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Largest group of whites in the south ones land and no slaves

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Tenant farmers

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Rented land or worked for land

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Rural poor

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Survived on small plots grew food and hunted

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Plantation owners

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Goal = profite

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Plantation wives

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Supervise house slaves, buildings, were accountants, often left alone while husband worked

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Plantation work

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1) domestic slave house work
2) skilled workers
3) animal caretakers
4) field hands (most slaves)

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Enslaved workers

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Men and women worked in fields sunset to sundown. Children age 10 joined adults, younger carried water, older took care of children

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Slave cabins

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Few comforts
Enough to eat but poor diet

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Family life

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No legal protections

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Christianity

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Hope, resistance prayed for freedom

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Nat Turner

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Religious leader amongst slaves; Led a rebellion; mostly rebellions were not successful

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Harriet Tubman and Frederick Douglass

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Born into slavery ran away to freedom didn’t work to free others and fight slavery

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Life in the cities

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Formed own communities 
Many prospered but not safe
Laws limited their rights
Not allowed to move to other states or were ordered out of state
Denied equality
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Abolitionists

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Reformers who worked to abolish or end slavery

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Opposition to abolitionist in North

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North did not support the quality

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Against abolitionist

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Headquarters, set off riots, destroyed newspaper press, killed leaders

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South reacts

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Essential to progress, treated slaves well; better than factory work, better off under white caravan on own (God)

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