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
