Slavery

Question 1

King cotton

Answer 1

First half of 1800s in south

Most plantations grew cotton

Question 2

By 1820, how many pounds of cotton? 1850?

Answer 2

160 mil

A billion

Question 3

1860: cotton made up how much of American exports?

Answer 3

2/3

Question 4

Where was the cotton belt?

Answer 4

Economies relied almost completely on cotton from South Carolina to Texas

Question 5

Why was farming the southern economy?

Answer 5

Geography perfect for it

Question 6

What did VA and NC grow?

Answer 6

Tobacco

Question 7

What did SC grow?

Answer 7

Sugar and rice

Question 8

What did KY produce?

Answer 8

Horses

Question 9

How many families owned plantations?

Answer 9

15000

Question 10

What fraction of spaces lived in big plantations with at least 50 slaves?

Answer 10

1/4

Question 11

How did Southern cities develop? Examples.

Answer 11

Gradually. New Orleans, Charleston, Richmond

Question 12

Most free Africans lived in Southern…

Answer 12

Towns or cities

Question 13

By ___ all northern states had passed laws ending slavery

Answer 13

1804

Question 14

Congress wasn’t allowed to ban slavery until…

Answer 14

1808

Question 15

Describe Vessey’s plan

Answer 15

Denmark Vessey was a carpenter and preacher who fought his own freedom. In 1822, planned to seize Charleston with hundreds of slaves. But his followers betrayed him and he and 34 others were hanged and 42 were expelled from SC

Question 16

Describe Turner’s rebellion

Answer 16

Nat Turner was a preacher. In August 1831, he led 70 slaves on raids of white farms in VA, massacring the white people. In response to his killing of >50, VA hanged 20 slaves, and whites killed 120 random Africans and tightened the slave code.

Question 17

What is the abolitionist movement?

Answer 17

Started by free Africans and whites, it was a movement to end slavery that gained momentum in the 1830s

Question 18

Who is Benjamin Lundy?

Answer 18

• abolitionist Quaker
• started an antislavery newspaper in Ohio called “The Genius of Universal Emancipation” in 1821
• end us slave trade, gradual abolition

Question 19

Colonization

Answer 19

Program to send free Africans and emancipated slaves back to Africa. 1817- start of American Colonization Society. Established Liberia in 1822 to send them to. Jehudi Ashmun. Rid US of blacks instead of equality

Question 20

William Lloyd Garrison

Answer 20

Radical abolitionist and white Bostonian. Founded The Liberator and the American Antislavery Society

Question 21

Frederick Douglass

Answer 21

Leader, speaker, writer, former slave. Illegally learned to read, survived a slave breaker, then escaped to MA in 1838. Worked with AASS after giving an amazing impromptu speech at a convention. Life and Times of… And the North Star

Question 22

Id Three divisions in abolitionist movement

Answer 22

Gender
Race
Tactics

Question 23

What was the division in abolition over gender?

Answer 23

Should women speak up about it if they can’t vote on it?

Question 24

What was the division in abolition over race?

Answer 24

Blacks believed in more urgent and radical abolition

Question 25

What was the division in abolition over tactics?

Answer 25

Garrison said that the Constitution supported slavery, so people should fight at the state level. Some disagreed.

Question 26

What did Sarah Grimke write?

Answer 26

Epistle to the Clergy of Southern states

Question 27

What did Angelina Grimke write?

Answer 27

An Appeal to Christian Women of the South: enlisting women

Question 28

Sojourner Truth

Answer 28

Freed in 1827 Abolitionist and women's rights activist Traveled extensively as a lecturer Wrote the Narrative of...

Question 29

Martin Delany

Answer 29

One of the first Africans to graduate from Harvard med. founded newspaper "The Mystery," criticized white abolitionists, supported colonization

Question 30

How did the Underground Railroad get its name?

Answer 30

Underground: secret Railroad: path on foot or by wagon

Question 31

Underground Railroad

Answer 31

Network of escape routes and safe stops to escape to freedom led by conductors or guides.

Question 32

Three UR routes

Answer 32

West- MS River East- swamps by coast Mountains- Appalachians Center of railroad was Ohio area

Question 33

Harriet Tubman

Answer 33

Most famous conductor Black Moses Rescued 300 slaves

Question 34

Elijah p lovejoy

Answer 34

Edited St. Louis observer Called for grad emancipation Nov 7 1837: rioters attacked his building and shot and killed him

Question 35

Attack on Garrison

Answer 35

1835 Garrison was captured and paraded around Boston with a rope around his neck

Question 36

Gag rule

Answer 36

South postmasters refused to deliver abolitionist lit 1836 Southerners passed gag rule that prohibited antislavery petitions from being read or acted upon by the house for the next 8 years