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American Slavery
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1. A system of forced labor designed to facilitate the production of staple crops.
Sugar, Tobacco, Coffee, Cotton: Money Crop |
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American Slavery 1860
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1. Was 57% Growth national product total money made.
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American Slavery distingushing characteristics?
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1. Stark racial component
2. Cattel Slavery: Humans had no rights treated like animals. |
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African American women in slavery.
What was unique? |
1. Deal w/sexual abuse.
2. Same work quota but got lesser pay than men. |
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African American women in slavery.
Who controlled unions? (marriage) |
Slave masters
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African American women in slavery.
Birth and Chidcare? |
Sometimes mother's or the elderly woman and younger girls that were to young to work in the fields.
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African American women in slavery.
what was used to increase abortions? |
Cotton Roots were swolled to increase abortions; preventing child birth
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What are two forms of Passive Resistance?
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1. Silent Sabotage; breaking of tools; pretending to not know how to perform job duties.
2. Suicide |
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What are two forms of Active Resistance?
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1. Individual Rebellion(fighting back physically)
2. Organized resistance or attack |
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List one Slave Rebellion or Insurrection.
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NAT TURNER; american slave led the largest and most significant slace revolt in U.S history Aug. 22, 1831.
70 slaves Rebels Virginia hanged on Nov. 11; 57 people killed; Rebellion lasted 3 days Stono Rebellion- Jemmy from Angola, Stone River, South Carolina Impact: changed slave codes Used banning of drums for communication |
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Define the Underground Railroad.
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Was the secret network of people, places, and modes of transportation that helped slaves excape.
32,000 active collaborators 50,000 slaves freed_est. |
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Who was Harriet Tubman?
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1.The most famous conductor. 2.She freed over 200 people.
3. Making over 15 trips w/Bounty Hunter over her head; She freed her entire family. 4. Slave and abolitionist 5. Scout for the Army because she knew the routes of the South. |
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List two White Abolitionist.
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William Lloyd Garrison;
Publisher of the Liberator 1830's 2. Harriet Beecher Stowe wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin 1852. (Banded from South) |
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List two Black Abolitionist.
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1.Sojourner Truth;
"Aint I a woman" made speech in Akron, OH Women's Right Spokesperson 2. David Walker; Walker's Appeal 1829 (take freedom by force) |
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What was Reconstruction?
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Physical and Political rebuilding of the South after Civil War from 1865-1877.
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Who were the participates in Reconstruction?
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1.Northerners and African Americans; with established residency and NO felonies.
2.Southerners- Loyalty Oath |
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What was the Emanipation Proclamation?
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Jan. 1, 1863 symbolic Freedom
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What is the 13th Amendment?
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Adopted 1865- Abolished slavery in USA.
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What is the 14th Amendment?
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Adopted 1868- Citizenship to all people and due process.
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What is the 15th Amendment?
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Adopted 1870- Right to vote
Universal Man Suffrage- ????? |
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Negro Officals After Civil War
(1 man elected in office) John Roy Lynch |
John Roy Lynch; he received his early studies from looking into a white schoolroom, he kept up with the class until he masterd the course which helped him in his role as speaker of Mississippi house and member of congress.
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Who are two Radical Republicans?
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1.Thaddeus Stevens of PA
2. Charles Sumner of MA |
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Who issued the Special Feild Order No. 15?
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General Williams T. Sherman *40 acres and a mule*
Provided abandon lands in South Carolina and Georgia to freed black families. |
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What was the Freedmen's Bureau?
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General Oliver Otis Howard
Bureau of freedmen, Abandoned Lands, and Refugees. Principal aim was to provided assistance to the newly emancipated blacks in South. |
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When was the Civil War?
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1861-1865 between USA and the Southern States
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List 4 Confederate States
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1. Texas
2. Florida 3. South Carolina 4. North Carolina |
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Importance of the Civil War?
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6,000,000 lives losted
Freedom to African Americans (4 million) Civil War was the last war on US land. |
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Causes of Civil War?
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The chief immediate cause of the war was SLAVERY.
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Emancipation Proclamation?
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Jan. 1, 1863 symbolic freedom and African Men to serve in the Union Army
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Who were exempted from the war?
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Specifically exempted were Slave States in parts of the South loyal to the Union.
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