Intro to African American History
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Enlightenment | ` |
| Principia Mathematica | ... |
| Age of Revolution | ... |
| Miscegenation | interbreeding of races |
| Patriot | ... |
| Phillis Wheatley | Born around 1753, Wheatley was the first African American female writer to be published. At age eight, she was brought to Boston. Although she had no formal education, Wheatley was taken to England at age twenty and published a book of poetry. Wheatley died in 1784. |
| Poems on various subjects, Religious and moral | ... |
| Benjamin Banneker | African-American scientist who taught himself calculus and trigonometry. He also helped design the capitol in Washington D.C. |
| Loyalists | American colonists who remained loyal to Britain and opposed the war for independence |
| Continental Congress | the legislative assembly composed of delegates from the rebel colonies who met during and after the American Revolution; they issued the Declaration of Independence and framed Articles of Confederation |
| Great Awakening | Religious revival in the American colonies of the eighteenth century during which a number of new Protestant churches were established. |
| Quok Walker | beaten slave that sues master |
| Northwest Oridinance of 1787 | ... |
| Fugitive Slave Act of 1793 | Made it a federal crime to assist an escaping slave, and established the legal mechanism in which a slave could be legally returned to their owners. |
| Three-Fifths Clause | every three out of five slaves were to be represented in american |
| African Methodist Episiopal Church (AME) | s |
| Gullah | language developed by African workers so white masters could not understand them, hybrid of English and African, culturallly a connection to Africa |
| Ring Shout | call and response, blue notes (notes in between 12 note scale), polyrhythms (more than 1 rhythmn happening), communal participation, connection with bodily movement, and with worship, ecstacy, differing (non-homogeneous) timbres |
| Spirit Possession | ... |
| Pidgens | ... |
| Plantataion Slavery | ... |
| Low-country slavery | ... |
| Gang System | a system used on most plantations in which all field hands worked on the same task at the same time |
| task system | ... |
| Gradual Abolition Act of 1780 | Pennsylvania law tha stated childrean of enslaved mothers would become free age twenty eight |
| Freedom Suits | legal cases in which enslaved africans sued their master or masters for their freedom |
| Incest Taboos | customary rules against sexual releations and marriage within family and kinship groups |
| Stono Rebellion | The most serious slave rebellion in the the colonial period which occurred in 1739 in South Carolina. 100 African Americans rose up, got weapons and killed several whites then tried to escape to S. Florida. The uprising was crushed and the participants executed. The main form of rebellion was running away, though there was no where to go. |
| Richard Allen | an african american preacher who helped start the free african society and the african methodist episcopal church |
| Elizabeth Freeman | sued her massachusettes master for her freedom from slavery. she won her suit ad served as a free domestic servant for the rest of her life in the house of the lawyer who had pleaded her case |
| Absalom Jones | ... |
| Frances Ellen Watkins Harper | ... |
| Jacksonian Era | One of the most colorful periods in the history of American politics, this era was a time during which sectional differences (states' rights, protective tariffs, and national bank) disrupted America's spirit of unity. |
| Nullification Crisis | ... |
| Missouri Compromise, 1820 | Allowed Missouri to enter the union as a slave state. Allowed maine to enter the union as a free state. Drew an imaginary line at 30 36 no slaves above the line, slaves below the line |
| Domestic Slave Trade | ... |
| migration | the movement of persons from one country or locality to another |
| Freetown, Liberia | ... |
| Black Laws | Laws written in the South after the Civil War that restricted the rights of African Americas. |
| Paul Cuffe | A black man who became very wealthy. He wanted to return all blacks to Africa. |
| American Colonization Society | ... |
| David Walkers Appeal | ... |
| Nat Turner | ... |
| Manifest destiny | the belief that the United States was destined to stretch across the continent from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean |
| American Anti-slavery Society/ Moral Suasion | ... |
| Fredeick Douglass/ North Star | ... |
| Colored American | ... |
| Philadephia Female Anti-Slavery Society | ... |
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