Chapter 13 & 14 Flashcards

History 221 with Williams at Abilene Christian University

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Liberty, Equality, and Power: A History of the American People (with CD-ROM)
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Nat Turner (307)

Born a slave. Born in Southampton County, Virginia in 1800.

Learned to read without being taught.

He believed that God had appointed him a Godly instrument of vengeance against the sin of slave holding.

David Walker (307)

-freeborn black man living in Boston

-Published "Appeal to the Coloured Citizens of the World"-an invitation to slaves to rise up in a bloody rebellion-in 1829

William Lloyd Garrison (307)

-Published the first issue of the Liberator on January 1, 1831

-Boston, Massachusetts Abolitionist

-Dismissed Nat Turner as insane.

Thomas R. Dew (308)

-A professor at the College of William and Mary.

-published a vigorous defense of slavery that became the Bible of Southerners' pro-slavery arguments

Eli Whitney (314)

-Invented the cotton gin

-his machine dramatically increased the production of raw cotton and made cotton commercially significant in the 1790's

Denmark Vesey (322)

-free black carpenter accused of conspiring with plantation to slaughter Charleston's white inhabitants.

-authorities never found any weapons, but they hanged 35 black men, including Vesey, and banished another 37 from the state.

Mason-Dixon line (308)

-Country was divided by it

-Surveyors mark that in colonial times had established the boundary between Maryland and Pennsylvania but half a century later divided the free North and the slave South

cotton kingdom (309)

-the tier of states in the South from South Carolina west to Texas

slave codes (311)

-constructed by state legislatures

-required the total submission of slaves by law.

-laws that gave whites complete dominion over blacks.

miscegenation (311)

-sexual mixing of the races

-Proslavery spokesmen played on the fears of Northerners and Southerners to avoid giving blacks equal rights.

planter (311)

-different from a farmer.

-a planter owned 20 or more slaves

-only about 12% of the population were planters.

plantation (311)

-where 52% of the South's slaves lived

-slaves produced more than 75% of the South's export crops

overseer (316)

-hired by larger planters to go into the fields with the slaves.

-left the planters to concentrate on marketing, finance and general affairs on the plantation.

paternalism (316)

-planters characterized their mastery in terms of what they called "Christian guardianship"

chivalry (318)

-The South's romantic ideal of male-female relationships

-glorified the lady while subordinating her.

-underlying assumption about the weakness of women and the protective authority of men resembled the paternalistic defense of slavery

slave driver (320)

-rarest of all slave occupations

-no more than 1 male slave in 100 slaves

-primary task was driving other slaves to work harder in fields.

free black (323)

-6% of the 4.1 million African American in 1860

-targets of oppression from white males because emerging racial thinking said blacks were supposed to be free.

emancipation (323)

-The act of freeing from slaves

yeomen (324)

-3 out of 4 "plain folk" at that time

-small farmers who owned their own land.

John Brown (333)

-lived like a nomad

-had traveled back and forth across 6 states

-conviction that slavery was wrong and ought to be destroyed

-May 24, 1856 he led an 8 man anti-slavery posse to slaughter 5 proslavery men at Pottawatomie, Kansas at midnight.

Lewis Cass (335)

-1847 Senator of Michigan offered a compromise through the doctrine of popular sovereignty

Charles Sumner (336)

-Senator who called for political realignment or "one grand Northern party of Freedom"

Stephen A. Douglas (337)

-Democratic Senator

-Rising star from Illinois

-broke the Omnibus bill into parts and skillfully ushered them through Congress.

John C. Fremont (343)

-presidential nominee in 1856

-Soldier

-California adventurer

-"Pathfinder of the West"

Jessie Fremont (343)

-John C. Fremont's wife

-daughter of Senator Thomas Hart Benton of Missouri

-knew the political map

-antislavery zealot who helped draw women into politics.

Roger B. Taney (347)

-1857: wrote the Court's decision on a ruling by the Supreme Court

-Chief Justice who hated republicans

-detested racial equality

-wrote the court's decisions

Abraham Lincoln (348)

-Condemned Douglas's Kansas-Nebraska Act

-Joined the Republican party in 1856

-16th President

-Lawyer

Jefferson Davis (352)

-Became President of the Confederate States of America

-His Vice President was Alexander Stephens

Wilmot Proviso (335)

-national debate sparked by Democratic representative David Wilmot in August 1846

-proposed that Congress bar slavery from all lands acquired in the war with Mexico.

Popular sovereignty (335)

-doctrine that stated people who settled the territories would decide for themselves slavery's fate.

-Cass argued that this solution sat squarely in the American tradition of democracy and local self-government

Free-Soil Party (336)

-Founded by Anti-slavery Whigs and Anti-slavery Democrats in 1848

-Martin van Buren was nominated for President and Charles Francis Adams for vice president

Compromise of 1850 (338)

-Collection of bills signed into action by Millard Filmore in September of 1850

Uncle Tom's Cabin (338)

-Novel by Harriet Beecher Stowe

-novel that vividly depicts the brutality of the South's "peculiar institution"

underground railroad (338)

-Series of secret "stations" (hideouts) on the way to Canada.

Fugitive Slave Act (338)

-stated "to seize an alleged slave, a slaveholder simply had to appear before a commissioner and swear that the runaway was his.

-also stated that all citizens were expected to assist officials in apprehending runaways.

-citizens of the North were galled by the Act.

Kansas-Nebraska Act (340)

-divided the massive Nebraska Territory in two.

Know-Nothings (341)

-recruits who swore never to vote for Roman Catholic candidates or foreign-born candidates.

-When questioned, recruits said, 'I know nothing."

Republican Party (341)

-One of the antislavery organizations provoked by the Kansas Nebraska Act.

free labor (343)

-Republicans believed that this concept could flourish if slavery was restricted to the South.

Bleeding Kansas (347)

-guerilla was that engulfed the territory

-gave the fledgeling Republican Party fresh ammunition for its battle against slave power.

Dred Scott decision (347)

-the Supreme Court announced its understanding of the meaning of the Constitution regarding slavery in its territories.

Lincoln-Douglas debates (349)

-threw Lincoln into the political spotlight

-Lincoln went to Douglas's speeches and debated with him

About this deck

By: Angelina Deitmen
Textbook:

Liberty, Equality, and Power: A History of the American People (with CD-ROM)
Liberty, Equality, Power: A History of the American People
Created: 2011-03-27
Size: 43 flashcards
Views: 74

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