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Unit 6 African American Studies > Slavery and Abolition > Flashcards

Slavery and Abolition Flashcards

1
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Jamestown

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(1619) first slaves sold

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chattel

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slave

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3
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cotton gin inventor

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eli whitney

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biggest export in US

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(1821) cotton

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slavery in north v south

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north (maids, butlers, nannies); south (plantations)

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6
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Atlantic slave trade

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buying, selling, transporting slaves (1619)

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7
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word to describe treatment of slaves

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dehumanizing

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3/5th Compromise

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5 slaves = 3 people; more rep in Congress

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Great Compromise

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equal rep in Senate; rep based on pop in House

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Manifest Destiny

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increase sectionalism; free v slave state

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Missouri Compromise

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(1820) MO = slave; ME = free

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Compromise of 1850

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abolished slave trade in DC; fugitive slave law; CA = free

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abolition

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abolitionist wanted to end slavery and its expansion

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14
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abolitionist

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white, religious, black freedmen, women

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15
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Fugitive Slave Law

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runaway slaves are not entitled to a trial by jury

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16
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underground railroad

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secret network where abolitionist helped slaves escape

17
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conductors

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help runaway slaves

18
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Harriet Tubman

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conductor

19
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Uncle Tom’s Cabin

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(1852) Harriet Beecher Stowe’s antislavery book

20
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Dred Scott

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slave taken to a free state is not a freedman (property = slave)

21
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William Lloyd Garrison

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white abolitionist who wrote The Liberator; no-governmentism

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Fredrick Douglass

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black abolitionist who said A.A can speak, read, and write

23
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John Brown

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white abolitionist led men to Harper’s Ferry to fight against slavery

24
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Lincoln Election

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won with no southern votes

25
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bleeding kansas

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violent events -> Kansas entering as a free state (1861)

26
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susan b anthony

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1st women’s right convention; abolition sparked equality movement

27
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sojourner truth

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Ain’t I A Woman; black v white women’s lives

Unit 6 African American Studies (5 decks)

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