APUSH Chapter 10

Denmark Vesey's Conspiracy

A 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, and seventy-five conspirators were executed.

How did African Americans endure and resist slavery?

African Americans resisted slavery through their religion, which grew to be a mix of African religions and Christianity, running away, and slave revolts.

Yeoman

Independent farmers of the South, most of whom live on family sized farms.

Black Codes

Laws passed by states and municipalities denying many rights of citizenship to free black people.

What pro-slavery arguments were developed in the first half of the nineteenth century?

Some pro-slavery arguments were based on the Bible, ancient Greece and Rome, and the Constitution, as well as Southerners wanting to be safe from possible slave revolts.

How did attitudes in the South toward slavery change after the invention of the cotton gin?

The cotton gin made cotton production easier which meant that cotton production boomed. It became a huge business so, the slave trade also boomed to keep up with the growing industry. The South became more and more invested in slave trade.

Manumission

The freeing of a slave.

Gang Labor System

The organization and supervision of slave field hands into working teams on Southern cotton plantations.

Who made up the planter elite?

The planter elite was mostly made up of slave-owners who inherited their wealth though sometimes middle class men were able to get to this group with their capital.

What was life like for the typical slave in the American South?

The typical slave in the American South were often treated poorly by their master (including being whipped and having horrible living conditions) and were prone to sickness because of the bad conditions. Enslaved people were able to get married, though not legally, and this built a strong foundation for community to build off of.

Nat Turner's Revolt

Uprising of slaves in Southampton County, Virginia, in the summer of 1831 led by Nat Turner that resulted in the death of fifty-five white people.

What were the values of yeoman farmers?

Yeoman farmers usually grew their own food and highly valued freedom.

Industrial Revolution

Revolution in the means and organization of production.