APUSH ch.11

By 1860 what was the approximate U.S. Slave population

4million

Approximately how much of the worlds cotton supply came from the southern U.S.

75%

Urban slaves

Most often were domestic servants

Free blacks in the south were allowed to

Own property

Historians estimate that approximately ________ slaves per year escaped to the North or Canada

1,000

In 1850 a majority of southern slaveholders owned how many slaves

1-5

In 1860 what percentage of southern white families were in the slave-owning class?

25%

Jumping over a broomstick was a ceremony celebrating

A slave marriage

Joseph Cinqué led a slave rebellion

Aboard the Amistad

John C.Calhoun and George Fitzhugh

Agreed that slavery was not a necessary evil but something actually positive and good

The internal slave trade in the United States involved the movement of hundreds of thousands of enslaved persons from

Older states like Virginia to the lower south

To qualify as a member of the planter class a person had to be engaged in southern agriculture and

Own at least 20 slaves

Denmark's Vesey's conspiracy

Reflected a combination of American and African influences

In the south the paternalist ethos

Reflected the hierarchical society in which the planter took responsibility for the lives of those around him

From 1840-1860 the price of a "prime field hand"

Rose about 80% which made it harder did southern whites to enter the slaveholding class

Which of the following is a TRUE statement relative to the upper south and the Deep South

Several upper south states did not join the confederacy at the time of the Civil War

Which of the following statements about slavery & the law is true?

Slaves accused of serious crimes were entitled to their day in court although they faced all-white judges and juries

Fredrick Douglas argued that

Slaves were truer to the principles of the declaration of independence than were most white americans

In comparison to slave revolts in Brazil & in the West Indies slave revolts in the U.S.

Smaller in scale and less frequent

Free blacks in the U.S.

Sometimes became wealthy enough to own slaves

What economic effect dos southern slavery have in the North?

Southern slavery helped finance industrialization and internal improvements in the north

Task labor

Allowed salves to take on daily jobs set their ow. Place & work in their own when they were done

Andrew Jackson of Tennessee and Joseph Brown is Georgia rose to political power

As self proclaimed spokesmen of the common man against the great planters

The relationship b/w rich southern planters & poor southern farmers

Benefited in part from a sense of unity bred by criticism from outsiders

By late 1830s the souths proslavery argument

Claimed that slavery was essential to human economic and cultural progress

Slave religion

Combined African traditions and Christian beliefs

In the nineteenth century what product was the worlds major crop produced by slave labor

Cotton

"Silent sabotage" can be defines as when slaves

Did poor work & broke tools

Gender roles under Slavery

Differed from those of white society b/c men & women alike suffered a sense of powerlessness

The term "Lords of Loom" refers to

Early New England factory owners

Fugitive slaves

Generally understood that the North Star led to freedom

Southern farmers in the backcountry

Generally worked the land using family labor

The end of slavery in most Latin American nations

Involved gradual emancipation accompanied by recognition of owners legal rights to slave property

Who said that the language in the Declaration of Independence-that all men were created equal & entitled to liberty- was " the most false and dangerous of all political errors"?

John C. Calhoun

Which statement about Nat Turner's rebellion is true?

Many southern whites were in a panic after the rebellion

Which of the following statements about religious life among African-Americans in southern cities is true?

Urban free blacks sometimes formed their own churches

After an 1831 slave rebellion which states legislature debated, but did not approve, a plan for gradual emancipation of slaves in that state

Virginia

Harriet Tubman

Was a fugitive Slavs who risked her life many times to bring others out of Slavery

Slave families

We're headed by women more frequently than were white families

What event is credited with helping to ingrained the paternalist ethos more deeply into the lives of southern slaveholders

The closing is the African slave trade

Defenders I'd American slavery claimed that British emancipation in the 1830's had been a failure because

The freed slaves grew less sugar cane, which hurt the economy of the Caribbean

Why did southern slaves love I. Better conditions by mid-nineteenth century than those in the Caribbean & South America?

The rising value of slaves made it profitable for slaveowners to take better care of them

The plantation masters had many means to maintain order among their slaves. According to the text what was the most powerful weapon the plantation masters had?

The threat of sale