slavery-reconstruction Flashcards

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“king cotton” (5 pt)

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-cotton plant flourishing in south
-planters bought more slaves and land to grow cotton
-cotton accounts for half of american values
-britain tied to south by cotton
-changed to economic structure of south from cotton

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2
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experience of slavery/working conditions (3 pt)

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-varied from plantation
-varied from north and south
-treated as property

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experiences of free blacks (north v south)

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south: mostly mullatoes, third race, prohibited from working most jobs
north: several states didn’t allow it, agitation towards slaves results in lack of certain jobs

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4
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abolition

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-slavery needs to end

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5
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quakers

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-against slavery, abolition began with this group

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american colonization society (1817) (4 pt)

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-wanted to send blacks back to africa
-mainly for racial reasons
-sent some back to liberia and monrovia
-most didn’t want to leave since they were american (very different from african culture)

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7
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the liberator (2 pt)

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-william lloyd garrison
-wide circling abolitionist paper

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american anti-slavery society (1833) (4 pt)

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-formed by abolitionists
-activist arm of abolitionism movement
-william garrison
-eventually split up

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congressional “gag rule” (5 pt)

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-driven through house by sensitive southerners
-required anti-slavery appeals to be tabled
-direct attack on right of petition
-angered john quincy adams who fought it
-repealed in 8 years

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10
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southern bans on abolitionist mailings (4 pt)

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-southern whites hated flooding of mails with incendiary literature
-charleston attacked post office and burned pile of abolitionist propaganda
-washington government ordered southern postmasters to destroy abolitionist material and arrested incomplacent postmen

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anti-abolitionism in the north (4 pt)

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-abolitionists are unpopular in the north
-didn’t like slavery but it wasn’t their problem
-heavy economic stake, higher rewards from slavery gave north money too
strong hostility in both north and south towards abolitionists

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free soilers (5 pt)

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-wanted western territory to be free
-popular in north
-federal aid for internal improvements
-attacks industrialists
-lincoln

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13
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nat turner’s rebellion (1831)

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-black preacher who can go to various plantations
-killed 50 whites
go from house to house killing (women and children)
-said it was sign from god
-scared white southerners
-resulted in stricter slave laws

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14
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slavery as “positive good”

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-originally a “necessary evil” proclaimed as a positive good

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15
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justifications for slavery (5 pt)

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-better for blacks: symbiotic relationship
-science: whites have bigger brains
-constitution: 2/5 compromise, fugitive slave clause
-bible
-greek and roman history

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16
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underground railroad

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-informal chain of stations
-passengers run from house to house
-conductor: harriet tubman

17
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theodore weld

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-abolitionist
-lane theological seminary
-expelled for organizing debate about slavery
American Slavery as it is (document)

18
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lewis tappan

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-NY merchant
-paid for weld to go to Lane Theological seminary
-home broken into and killed

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harriet beecher stowe

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-uncle tom’s cabin
-women and slave rights
-theme was slavery splits familys
-drew empathy and helped promote abolitionism

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solomon northup

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-narrative about his experience as slave
-captured attention of readers

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william lloyd garrison

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-radical abolitionist-stern and uncompromising
the liberator
-wouldn’t tolerate slavery
-antagonized north and south
-burned constitution

22
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elijah lovejoy

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-pushed hard for abolition
-printing press destroyed 4 times and killed by mob
-martyr

23
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david walker

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-black abolitionist
-wrote “appeal to colored citizens of the world”
-blood end to white supremacy

24
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sojourner truth

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-freed black woman in NY
-black emancipation and women’s rights

25
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martin delaney

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-few black leaders who likes idea of mass recolonization
-visited africa’s niger valley to look for relocation

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frederick douglass

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-black abolitionist
-escaped from slavery, discovered at antislavery speech in MA
-“narrative of the life of frederick douglass”
-origins of black slavery with a white father

27
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harriet tubman

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-helped slaves escape through underground railroad
-black moses

28
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gabrel prosser

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-enslaved blacksmith in va
learned about haitian revolt and made plans to kill whites, hold government hostage and demand statewide abolition
-resulted in new legislation in va [ 1. free blacks had to leave state within 12 months or become enslaved again, 2. illegal for slaves to read or rwrite, 3. restricted right to travel between town and country]

29
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denmark vesey

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-free black
-attempted rebellion betrayed by informers
-30 followers publicly hung

30
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nat turner

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-visionary black preacher who led VA uprising
-results in stricter slave laws

31
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abraham lincoln

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-free soiler
-republican