Chapter 11 - 1800-1860

Question 1

Gang system.

Answer 1

• Organization and supervision of slave field hands into working teams on southern plantations.

Question 2

Slave code.

Answer 2

• A series of laws passed mainly in the southern colonies in the late 17th and early 18th centuries to defend the status of slaves and codify the denial of basic civil rights to them.

Question 3

Gabriel Prodder’s Rebellion

Answer 3

• Slave revolt that failed when Gabriel Prosser, a slave preacher and blacksmith, organized a thousand slaves for an attack on Richmond, Virginia, in 1800.

Question 4

Denmark Vesey’s Conspiracy

Answer 4

• Most carefully devised slave revolt in which rebels planned to seize control of Charleston in 1822 and escape to freedom in Haiti, a free black republic, but they were betrayed by other slaves, and 35 conspirators were executed.

Question 5

Nat Turner’s Rebellion

Answer 5

• Uprising of slaves led by Nat Turner in Southampton County, Virginia, in the summer of 1831 that resulted in the death of up to 60 whit people.

Question 6

Underground Railroad

Answer 6

• Support system set up by antislavery groups in the Upper South and the North to assist fugitive slaves in escaping the South.

Question 7

Black codes

Answer 7

• Laws passed by states and municipalities denying many rights of citizenship to free black people before the Civil War.