Chapter 16
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29 terms
Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Cotton Kingdom | Term for the South that emphasized its economic dependence on a single staple product. |
| West African Squadron | British naval unit that seized hundreds of slave ships in the process of suppressing the illegal slave trade in the early 1800s. |
| Uncle Tom's Cabin | Harriet Beecher Stowe's powerful 1852 novel that focused on slavery's cruel effects in separating Black family members from one another. |
| black belt | The fertile region of the Deep South, stretching across Alabama, Mississippi, and Louisiana, where the large concentration of Black slaves worked on rich cotton plantations |
| Amistad | Spanish slave ship, seized by revolting African slaves, that led to a dramatic U.S. Supreme Court case that freed the slaves. |
| American Slavery As It Is | . Theodore Dwight Weld's powerful antislavery book. |
| American Colonization Society | Organization founded in 1817 to transport American blacks back to Africa. |
| Liberia | African republic founded by freed American slaves in 1822 |
| Lane Rebels | The group of theology students, led by Theodore Dwight Weld, who were expelled from their seminary for abolitionist activity and later became preachers of the antislavery gospel. |
| The Liberator | William Lloyd Garrison's fervent abolitionist newspaper that preached an immediate end to slavery. |
| American Antislavery Society | Garrisonian abolitionist organization, founded in 1833, that included the eloquent Wendell Phillips among its leaders. |
| Gag Resolution | Strict rule passed by prosouthern congressmen in 1836 to prohibit all discussion of slavery in the House of Representatives. |
| Mason-Dixon Line | The line across the southern boundary of Pennsylvania that formed the boundary between free states and slave states in the East. |
| free soilers | Northern antislavery politicians, like Abraham Lincoln, who rejected radical abolitionism but sought to prohibit the expansion of slavery in the western territories. |
| Eli Whitney | Inventor of a machine for extracting seed from cotton that revolutionized the Southern economy |
| Harriet Beecher Stowe | Author of an abolitionist novel that portrayed the separation of slave families by auction |
| Nat Turner | Visionary black preacher whose bloody slave rebellion in 1831 tightened the reins of slavery in the South. |
| William Wilberforce | British evangelical Christian reformer who in 1833 achieved the emancipation of slaves in the British West Indies |
| Theodore Dwight Weld | Leader of the "Lane Rebels" who wrote the powerful antislavery work American Slavery As It Is |
| Wendell Phillips | New England patrician and Garrison follower whose eloquent attacks on slavery earned him the title "abolition's golden trumpet" |
| Denmark Vesey | Free Black whose failed attempt to lead a slave revolt in Charleston, South Carolina, led to the execution of more than thirty of his followers |
| William Lloyd Garrison | Leading radical abolitionist who burned the Constitution as "a covenant with death and an agreement with Hell." |
| David Walker | Black abolitionist writer who called for a bloody end to slavery in an appeal of 1829. |
| Sojourner Truth | New York free black woman who fought for emancipation and women's rights. |
| Martin Delaney | Black abolitionist who visited West Africa in 1859 to examine sites where African- Americans might relocate. |
| Frederick Douglass | Escaped slave and great black abolitionist who fought to end slavery through political action. |
| Lewis Tappan | Wealthy New York abolitionist merchant whose home was demolished by a mob in 1834. |
| John Quincy Adams | Former president who won the Amistad rebellious slaves' freedom and fought for the right to discuss slavery in Congress. |
| Elijah Lovejoy | Illinois editor whose death at the hands of a mob made him an abolitionist martyr. |
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