slavery-reconstruction Flashcards
“king cotton” (5 pt)
-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
experience of slavery/working conditions (3 pt)
-varied from plantation
-varied from north and south
-treated as property
experiences of free blacks (north v south)
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
abolition
-slavery needs to end
quakers
-against slavery, abolition began with this group
american colonization society (1817) (4 pt)
-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)
the liberator (2 pt)
-william lloyd garrison
-wide circling abolitionist paper
american anti-slavery society (1833) (4 pt)
-formed by abolitionists
-activist arm of abolitionism movement
-william garrison
-eventually split up
congressional “gag rule” (5 pt)
-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-repealed in 8 years
southern bans on abolitionist mailings (4 pt)
-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
anti-abolitionism in the north (4 pt)
-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
free soilers (5 pt)
-wanted western territory to be free
-popular in north
-federal aid for internal improvements
-attacks industrialists
-lincoln
nat turner’s rebellion (1831)
-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
slavery as “positive good”
-originally a “necessary evil” proclaimed as a positive good
justifications for slavery (5 pt)
-better for blacks: symbiotic relationship
-science: whites have bigger brains
-constitution: 2/5 compromise, fugitive slave clause
-bible
-greek and roman history