slavery-reconstruction

Question 1

“king cotton” (5 pt)

Answer 1

-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

Question 2

experience of slavery/working conditions (3 pt)

Answer 2

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

Question 3

experiences of free blacks (north v south)

Answer 3

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

Question 4

abolition

Answer 4

-slavery needs to end

Question 5

quakers

Answer 5

-against slavery, abolition began with this group

Question 6

american colonization society (1817) (4 pt)

Answer 6

-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)

Question 7

the liberator (2 pt)

Answer 7

-william lloyd garrison
-wide circling abolitionist paper

Question 8

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

Answer 8

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

Question 9

congressional “gag rule” (5 pt)

Answer 9

-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-repealed in 8 years

Question 10

southern bans on abolitionist mailings (4 pt)

Answer 10

-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

Question 11

anti-abolitionism in the north (4 pt)

Answer 11

-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

Question 12

free soilers (5 pt)

Answer 12

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

Question 13

nat turner’s rebellion (1831)

Answer 13

-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

Question 14

slavery as “positive good”

Answer 14

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

Question 15

justifications for slavery (5 pt)

Answer 15

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

Question 16

underground railroad

Answer 16

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

Question 17

theodore weld

Answer 17

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

Question 18

lewis tappan

Answer 18

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

Question 19

harriet beecher stowe

Answer 19

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

Question 20

solomon northup

Answer 20

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

Question 21

william lloyd garrison

Answer 21

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

Question 22

elijah lovejoy

Answer 22

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

Question 23

david walker

Answer 23

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

Question 24

sojourner truth

Answer 24

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

Question 25

martin delaney

Answer 25

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

Question 26

frederick douglass

Answer 26

-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

Question 27

harriet tubman

Answer 27

-helped slaves escape through underground railroad
-black moses

Question 28

gabrel prosser

Answer 28

-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]

Question 29

denmark vesey

Answer 29

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

Question 30

nat turner

Answer 30

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

Question 31

abraham lincoln

Answer 31

-free soiler
-republican