Slavery and Abolition Flashcards
Jamestown
(1619) first slaves sold
chattel
slave
cotton gin inventor
eli whitney
biggest export in US
(1821) cotton
slavery in north v south
north (maids, butlers, nannies); south (plantations)
Atlantic slave trade
buying, selling, transporting slaves (1619)
word to describe treatment of slaves
dehumanizing
3/5th Compromise
5 slaves = 3 people; more rep in Congress
Great Compromise
equal rep in Senate; rep based on pop in House
Manifest Destiny
increase sectionalism; free v slave state
Missouri Compromise
(1820) MO = slave; ME = free
Compromise of 1850
abolished slave trade in DC; fugitive slave law; CA = free
abolition
abolitionist wanted to end slavery and its expansion
abolitionist
white, religious, black freedmen, women
Fugitive Slave Law
runaway slaves are not entitled to a trial by jury
underground railroad
secret network where abolitionist helped slaves escape
conductors
help runaway slaves
Harriet Tubman
conductor
Uncle Tom’s Cabin
(1852) Harriet Beecher Stowe’s antislavery book
Dred Scott
slave taken to a free state is not a freedman (property = slave)
William Lloyd Garrison
white abolitionist who wrote The Liberator; no-governmentism
Fredrick Douglass
black abolitionist who said A.A can speak, read, and write
John Brown
white abolitionist led men to Harper’s Ferry to fight against slavery
Lincoln Election
won with no southern votes
bleeding kansas
violent events -> Kansas entering as a free state (1861)
susan b anthony
1st women’s right convention; abolition sparked equality movement
sojourner truth
Ain’t I A Woman; black v white women’s lives
