Chapter 16 Flashcards
Unit 8 (29 cards)
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Wrote the novel, Uncle Tom’s Cabin, which encompassed the harsh lives of African slaves.
William Lloyd Garrison
Wrote the Liberator, which was an antislavery newspaper. It triggered the Civil War since it was a definite line between the North and the South. Also, Garrison began the American Anti-Slavery Society.
Denmark Vesey
A free slave in South Carolina who inspired a group of slaves to take over Charleston with him, but one of the slaves betrayed him, resulting in the hanging of him and 37 of his followers.
David Walker
A black abolitionist who wanted the immediate emancipation of slavery and thought that the only way to obtain this would be to physically revolt.
Nat Turner
Black preacher who lead the Nat Turner Rebellion, an uprising which led to the death of 60 white people in VA. Led to immense fear for the Southerners. Turner claimed to be told by God to revolt. This led to VA passing a policy stating that no one can question slavery.
Theodore Dwight Weld
American abolitionist who wrote “American Slavery As It Is”. He and a group called the “North Rebels” went around the Northwest preaching antislavery gospel.
Frederick Douglass
Self educated slave who got escaped slavery and wrote a book about himself depicting his life. He was an abolitionist. Also, published a pamphlet called The North Star.
Elijah P. Lovejoy
American Presbyterian minister who was murdered by a mob for his anti slavery views.
John Quincy Adams
Presented the case of Amistad to the Supreme Court and released the Africans.
Arthur and Lewis
Two brothers who imported silk from Asia, and after collecting a lot of money, donated it to an abolitionist cause. Afterwards, they became major abolitionists. They were the founders of the American and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society.
Sojourner Truth
Born into slavery, but escaped in 1827. She was an abolitionist and preached for women’s rights.
Oligarchy
A political system governed by a few people.
Abolitionism
The militant effort to get rid of slavery.
Cotton Kingdom
Cotton was the only crop produced in the pre-Civil War era. It made the South feel powerful because more than ½ of the world depended on this crop. Also, it was directly correlated to the success of the British. If cotton would be gone, England would collapse in a way.
The Liberator
Pamphlet that William Lloyd Garrison wrote as an abolitionist movement. He received a lot of hatred and this was thought to be an attack because it was the same time as Nat Turner’s Rebellion.
American Anti-Slavery Society
William Lloyd Garrison and other abolitionists gathered together and burned the constitution, claiming that it is a pro-slavery document. They also stated that America should not be a country with slaveholders.
Peculiar resolution
One of the key causes of the Civil War. An attempt to explain how “all men are created equal” means that slavery is fine to be occurring.
“Positive Good”
In the South, George Fitzhugh, established the philosophy that slavery was good because it benefited slaves by providing them with food, shelter, an sometimes a Christian religion. He also said that the Northern workers were treated no better than slaves.
Liberty Party
Party whose main platform was to bring an end to slavery by political and legal means. Originally part of antislavery part, but believed that there was another way other than Garrison’s moral crusade.
Lane Rebels
People who helped lead the ideas of antislavery.
Gag Resolution
Strict rule passed by prosouthern congressmen to prohibit all discussion of slavery in the House of Representatives. This was passed for 8 years in a row until John Quincy Adams overturned it.
Sir Walter Scott
an elite Southerner with castles and was an aristocrat. Mark Twain claims that he a contributor to the start of the Civil War because he aroused the Southerners to fight for a decaying social structure
Mark Twain
wrote about characters living in a constrained society, attempting to go out to a more natural world.
William T. Johnson
was a free black man (white father, black mother) who was freed and obtained a profession as a barber, “barber of Natchez”. He owned property and 15 black slaves whom he treated with immense cruelty.
