Apush Chapter 16 Quiz

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Term for the South that emphasized its economic dependence on a single staple product.

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Cotton Kingdom

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Prosouthern New England textile owners who were economically tied to the southern "lords of the lash."

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Lords of the Loom

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The poor, vulnerable group that was the object of prejudice in the North and despised as a "third race" in the South.

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Free blacks

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Theodore Dwight Weld's powerful anti-slavery book.

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American Slavery As It Is

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The area of the South where most slaves were held, stretching from South Carolina across to Louisiana.

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"Black Belt"

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Organization founded in 1817 to send blacks back to Africa.

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American Colonizations

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The group of theology students, led by Theodore Dwight Weld, who were expelled for abolitionist activity and later became leading preachers of the anti-slavery gospel.

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Lane Rebels

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William Lloyd Garrison's fervent abolitionist newspaper that preached an immediate end to slavery.

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The Liberator

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Garrisonian abolitionist organization, founded in 1833, that included the eloquent Wendell Phillips among its leaders.

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Antislavery Society

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Strict rule passed by prosouthern Congressmen in 1836 to prohibit all discussion of slavery in the House of Representatives.

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"Gag Rule"

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Northern antislavery politicians, like Abraham Lincoln, who rejected radical abolitionism but sought to prohibit the expansionism of slavery in the western territories.

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Free Soilers

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English novelist whose romantic medievalism encouraged the semifeudal idea of the southern planter aristocracy.

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Sir Walter Scott

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Author of an abolitionist novel that portrayed the separation of slave families by auction.

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Harriet Beecher Stowe

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Visionary black preacher whose bloody slave rebellion in 1831 tightened the reins of slavery in the South.

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Nat Turner

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West African republic founded in 1822 by freed blacks from the United States.

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Liberia

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Leader of the "Lane Rebels" who wrote the powerful antislavery work American Slavery As It Is.

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Theodore Dwight Weld

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Wealthy New York abolitionist merchant whose home was demolished by a mob in 1834.

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Lewis Tappan

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Midwestern institution whose president expelled eighteen students for organizing a debate on slavery.

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Lane Theological Seminary

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Leading radical abolitionist who burned the Constitution as "a covenant with death and an agreement with hell."

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William Lloyd Garrison

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Black abolitionist writer who called for a bloody end to slavery in an appeal of 1829.

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David Walker

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New York free black woman who fought for emancipation and women's rights.

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Sojourner Truth

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Black abolitionist who visited West Africa in 1859 to examine sites where African-Americans might relocate.

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Martin Delany

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Escaped slave and great black abolitionist who fought to end slavery through political action.

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Fredrick Douglass

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Site of the last major southern debate over slavery and emancipation, in 1831-1832.

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Virginia legislature

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Former president who fought for the right to discuss slavery in Congress.

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John Quincy Adams

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Illinois editor whose death at the hands of a mob made him an abolitionist martyr.

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Elijah Lovejoy

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What was the slave population by 1860?

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4 million

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What was the North and South centered around?

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Cotton

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What was the average amount of Southern society that did not own slaves?

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3/4 - The majority did not own slaves!

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What were some ways the slaves had agency?

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They would engage in work slowdowns, sabotage equipment, and "jump the broom."