Vocab. M. 14 l. 3 and M. 15 L. 1-2-4 Flashcards
Workers hired to watch over and direct the work of slaves
Overseers
Songs that combine African and European music with religious lyrics
Spirituals
Passing stories, songs, and poems by word of mouth to preserve heritage and pass down traditions and customs
Oral Tradition
Stories with a moral, often dealing with animal characters and themes of overcoming adversity
Folktales
Virginia slave who planned to gain freedom by killing slaveholders and their families
Nat Turner
Having a natural resistance to a diesease
Immune
The voyage across the Atlantic that Enslaved Africans were forced to endure
Middle Passage
The scattering of African people due to slavery
African Diaspora
Virginia slave who planned to gain freedom by killing slaveholders and their families
Nat Turner
The name given to the 1831 rebellion led by Nat Turner
Nat Turner Rebellion
Suggested bill that would outlaw slavery in new U.S. territory
Wilmot Proviso
Situation in which people favor the interests of one region over those of the entire country
Sectionalism
Third political party that formed to support abolition
Free-Soil Party
Law that maintained America’s slave-state/free state balance
Compromise of 1850
Formally withdraw
Secede