Mustangs 208: Civil War Part 1
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Mustangs208 on February 9, 2011
Subjects:
Social Studies, History, Civil War
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Flash cards for the Civil War Unit.
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Gold | What the English explorers hoped to fined in the new world.There was none. |
| Tobacco | Became the "gold" they were looking for. Sent to Europe for $$$$. Becomes first cash crop in the New World. Needed cheap labor to harvest it. |
| Jamestown 1619 | Workers were needed to plant and harvest cash crop. Slave labor makes sense money wise. |
| Slave | The legal property of another person. A lifetime worker. Slaves were viewed as a product or livestock. |
| Slave part 2 | Slavery generated lots of $$$ for southern slave owners. Small percentage of southerners owned slaves. |
| Slave Catchers | Captured Africans in west and central Africa and sold them all over the world. Lasted over 250 yeas and effected 11 million lives. |
| Slave Catchers 2 | Africans were kidnapped from villages and homes in west and central Africa. Were taken to slave castles and traded for $$ or goods. |
| Slave Castles | Housed slaves until they could be put on boats. Conditions were terrible. |
| Middle Passage | The journey across the Atlantic from Africa. Worst conditions unimaginable. Took 8-14 weeks. |
| Tight Packers | Cram as many people as possible into cargo holds. Expect for 30% to die during voyage. |
| Loose Packers | Fewer people in cargo holds; expect fewer to die. |
| Slave Auction | People sold to the highest bidder. Owned as property. |
| Cotton Gin | Invented by Eli Whitney. Need for slaves at all time high. Cotton became the new "gold". Leads to huge plantations. |
| Plantation | Large estate where cash crops were grown. Had many slaves to work the land. |
| Slave Life on Plantation | Slaves worked sun up to sun down, under constant threat of violence. |
| Slave Quarter | Dirt floor shacks- cold in winter and hot in summer. Community and church helped relived hopelessness. |
| Resistance to Slavery | Abolitionist movement grows. "Should we really have slavery any more?" |
| Abolitionist | A person against the idea of slavery. Wanted slavery to end. A growing movement in the north. |
| Underground Railroad | A system of homes used by escaped slaves to make their way north. |
| Slave Books | Uncle Tom's Cabin and Narrative of the Life of Fredrick Douglass changed the way northerners thought about slave life. |
| John Brown | Militant abolitionist who wants to steal guns, arm slaves and head further south with a freed slave army. |
| Abe Lincoln | Elected in 1860. Will try to end slavery. Southern states not happy. |
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