Unit 6 Keywords: Antebellum Period 1800-1861

Question 1

Indentured servants (Contract workers)

Answer 1

Come from England and Ireland and work on tobacco forms.
-They signed a contract to work on these forms for 4-7 years.

Question 2

Royal African Company 1672

Answer 2

England and Portegues go to war. Great Britain dominated the slave trade. A private company sponsored by England. Slaves became much cheaper and easier to acquire.

Question 3

Bacon’s Rebellion (1675-1676)

Answer 3

Nathaniel Bacon, a rebellion of indentured servants. Current and former servants had talked about ill-treatment and not receiving the best.

Question 4

Virginia Laws on Slavery

Answer 4

-1662 Slavery is inheritable from Mother
-1667 Conversion to christianity does not give Freedom
-1668-69 Punishment for indentured servants vs slaves.
(Indentured slaves=Added years to contract)
(Slave Punishment= The use of violence. Which were beatings since there were no contracts to extend.)
-1682 Ban on import of enslaved christians.
-1705 Illegal to whip indentured servants
-1619 Chattel= Slave people are property, in which all laws that are for property were applied to slaves as well.

Question 5

Dehumanization

Answer 5

Slave owners and traders dont see slaves as humans. Force slaves to live in shitty places so they wont resist.
(myth- the slaves would be beaten by europeans)

Question 6

Alexander Falconbridge

Answer 6

Was a slave ship surgeon for 4 of he slave trade voyages between 1782-1787. He eventually becomes an abolitionist after seeing the torment of slaves.

Question 7

Three-fifths Compromise

Answer 7

Only 3 out of 5 slaves counted toward the population

Question 8

Fugitive Slave Clause (Constitution)

Answer 8

Enslavers have the right to capture enslaved people who escaped to free states.

Question 9

Necessary Evil

Answer 9

Slavery is evil, but it is too important for personal wealth and south economy.

Question 10

David Walker

Answer 10

Abolitionists against slavery, believed that slavery was evil.

Question 11

Eli Whitney (Cotton Gin)

Answer 11

Invented the cotton gin and a way to make guns faster, easier, and cheaper

Question 12

Cotton Boom

Answer 12

New textile mills (Factories that made cotton into usable cotton) in the North. Cotton gin used in the south and sent up North and made cotton products

Question 13

Textile Mills

Answer 13

Factories that made cotton into usable cotton

Question 14

Internal Slave Trade

Answer 14

Within the United States slave trading had begun. To new areas to bring slavery to help the economies.

Question 15

Yeoman Farmers

Answer 15

Someone who owns land and cannot afford slaves. (smaller amount of land & family farms, grow food and some cash crops)

Question 16

Planters

Answer 16

Owned more than 20 slaves, about 4% of whites.
-Have a fair amount of money and are viewed as wealthy/
-Have half the amounts of the slaves

Question 17

Paternalism

Answer 17

The idea of taking care of someone. You would be the father or parent. But more father like (Slave owners= father, Slaves=Children)

Question 18

Slavery was a positive Good

Answer 18

Slavery wasgood for enslaved people, since they couldnt take care of themselves by themselves the Masters were there parent and depended on the.

Question 19

Slave Patrol (White supremacy)

Answer 19

Existed through southern states, which were free white people. They want to make sure slaves did NOT run away.
-4 people appointed, were people who did not have slaves.

Question 20

J Marion Sims

Answer 20

A physician in the south that worked on slaves, “The Father of Gynecology”. Invitens the speculum and other gynecological procedures.

Question 21

Slaves view on Christianity

Answer 21

-Many slaves were christians, but still had west african culture to it.
-Teaches everyone that you will be reunited after death. The evil dewers wil get there karma.
-Very attractive to slaves

Question 22

Nat Turner (1831)

Answer 22

Was born in Virgina and when he was a child his father escaped and left him.But this inspired Nat to want Freedom as well.
-He became very religous
-Becomes a preacher and very well respected .
-Was gods tool to go against slave owners and fight against evil
Him and a group of people went to many white farm and killed 60 white people*

Question 23

Passiave resistance

Answer 23

Resistance in small everyday ways
-Would act dumb, stop working, Flattering/buttering up to owners, just overall fooling the owners.

Question 24

Abolitionism

Answer 24

Wanted slavery to end. Protect and bibliography against slavery.

Question 25

Gradualism

Answer 25

They aregued to gradually end slavery instead of ending it all at once.

Question 26

American Colonization Society

Answer 26

White people, Elitist, President an Jefferson. They argued about the “necessary evil”

Question 27

Liberia, Monrovia

Answer 27

Was the arrangement by Elitist to send former slaves who got their freedom back to Africa.
-Was a unsucessful movement, however som people did go back to Africa.

Question 28

Radical Abolitionist

Answer 28

Belived that slavery should be ended immediately since it was immoral.

Question 29

William Lloyd Garrison

Answer 29

Creates Newspapers called the “Liberator” and pushed against slavery
-Motivated by religion and viewed slavery as “sinful”

Question 30

Fredrick Douglass

Answer 30

Escaped slavery from Maryland and wanted people to know the true horror of slavery
-Believed in radical equality!! and even argued for gender equality.

Question 31

The Middle Passage (The Atlantic Slave Trade)

Answer 31

a stage of the Atlantic slave trade where Europeans transported enslaved Africans across the Atlantic Ocean to the Americas.

Question 32

Harriet Tubman (1822-1913)

Answer 32

Was Born a slave in Maryland but escaped to the free state Pennsylvania
-Apart from the Underground Railroad
-Served as a spy and scout for the Civil War.
-Involved in Women’s Suffrage
-Considered violence to end slavery.

Question 33

Underground Rail Road

Answer 33

A network of secret routes and safe houses used by 19th-century African American slaves to escape to freedom in the Northern states or Canada.

Question 34

Lucretia Mott & Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Answer 34

-Northern Women
-Both were looked down upon because they were women.
-Went to London to participate in a anti-slavery meeting but were not allowed in because thy were women.
-Started the first gender rally

Question 35

Geroge Fitzhugh

Answer 35

-From South Carolina, wealthy politician, and slave owner.
-“Salvery was a positive good”
1.Religous->Belived slaves converted was a good thing
2.Biological–> Africans arent smart and science supports.
3.Sociological–> Hichearchy (top and bottom people) With slavery they are taken good care by masters.
4.Political –> People at the bottom should not vote… All men are not created equally…

Question 36

Stanley Elkins

Answer 36

-Infantilization
-Weak Families
-Slaves accept white culture
-Slaves seek approval of owner (Father figure)
-Not faking!!

Question 37

John Blassingame

Answer 37

-Slaves own culture- way to escape from owner control
-Passive resistance (slaves were faking)
-Music, religion, humor
-Control over at least some part of their lives
-Support one another

Question 38

Debroah Gray White

Answer 38

-Add the women side of slavery
-More difficult than male experience
-Traume

Question 39

Edward Baptist

Answer 39

-Slavery was economically important
-The cotton economy of the South had brought prosperity throughout the nation
-Resistance and survival were key indicators
-American capitalism wouldn’t have been so high without slavery.