AP US HISTORY UNIT #3 REVIEW CH 16
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 slavery | Before the 1793 invention of Eli Whitney's cotton gin _____ was a dying business |
| wildly profitable and easier | After the gin was invented, growing cotton became what? |
| the south | Who produced more than half of the world's supply of cotton? |
| 100 | In 1850, only about 1733 families owned more than____ slaves each |
| widened | The Southern aristocrats _____ the gap between the rich and poor and hampered public-funded education by sending their children to private schools |
| Sir Walter Scott | autho of the Ivanhoe |
| King Cotton | The dominance of _____ likewise led to a one-crop economy whose price level was at the mercy of world conditions. |
| outranked | Even the slaveless whites defended the slavery system beacuse they all hoped to own a slave or two some day, and they could take perverse pleasure in knowing that, no matter how bad they were, they always _____ Blacks. |
| Revolutionary War | In the upper south, these Blacks were descended from those freed by the idealism of the _____ |
| Irish | Northern Blacks were usually hated by who? |
| natural reproduction | the slave increase was mostly due to what? |
| investment | Slaves were an _____, and thus were treated better and more kindly and were spared the most dangerous jobs |
| Harriet Beecher Stowe | wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin |
| hard work and no civil or political rights | Slave life varied from place to place, but for slaves everywhere life meant _____ and _____ |
| Christian | Africans also mixed the _____ religion with their own native religion |
| The American Dream | Slaves had no dignity, were illiterate, and had no chance of achieving what? |
| Black revolts | Whites were afraid of these and had to degrade themselves |
| American Colonization Society | Founded for the purpose of shipping blacks to America |
| Native born African American | In 1860, almost all slaves were not African, but _____ |
| Second great awakening | Provided support for abolitionism in the 1830s |
| Charles Grandison Finney | Preached against slavery and wrote the pamphlet "American slavery as it is" |
| William Garrison | Published first edition of The Liberator |
| Sojourner Truth | Fought for black emancipation and womans rights |
| Fredrick Douglass | Greatest black abolitionist |
| "gag resolution" | Passed by southern house members,required antislavery appeals to be tabled without debate |
| Resented | Southerners ______ the flood of propaganda in the form of pamphlets drawings ect. |
| Southern cotton | Northern factories depended on this to make goods. |
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