MAD US History Terms Unit IV
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MAD US history terms from unit iv
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Terms | Definitions |
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 Eli Whitney | Who/What: young man who created the Cottton Gin with Cathering Greene Where: Massachusetts When: 1793 D/W: created the cotton gin, with Catherine Greene, helped the production of cotton grow to a crazy amount in a short time |
| Catherie Greene | Who/What: young woman from the South who worked with Eli Whitney to make the cotton gin Where: South Carolina When: 1793 D/W: created the cotton gin, with Eli Whitney, she did it to increase her money and cotton production time and amount |
| Cotton Gin | Who/What: mechanical machine Where: used mostly in Southern United States When: 1793 D/W: hand cranked machine that had wire teeth to pick the lint off and the seeds, it was done much faster than a slave could go... but also required more slave power |
| Manumission****** | Who/What: a legal action taken by slave owners Where: Southern United States (Slave States) When: ??? D/W: the act of freeing a slave, even if you were manumitted your children will still be considered slaves, this rarely happened |
| Field Hands | Who/What: a position held by a slave Where: Southern United States (Slave States) When: 1850 D/W: 75% of all slaves were put under the gang labor system--> slaves were split into different fieldworks, worked under the oppressive overseer, aged more quickly, had harder physical labor, were malnourished, not well clothed, worked long hours, were an actual source of income for slave owners |
| House Slaves | Who/What: a position held by a slave Where: Southern United States (Slave States) When: 1850 D/W: minority of the slaves were servants in the house, they were better clothed, under constant white supervision, better fed, spent less time with their families, had more access to information, more likely to escape, more "trustworthy" according to the whites, they're isolated |
| Yeoman | Who/What: white southerner position Where: Southern United States (Slave States) When: 1850 D/W: independent farmer who lived on family sized farms (as opposed to a huge plantation), also known as "plain folk" as opposed to the "gentry"--> who owned slaves, they had a close relationship because everything took everyone's participation |
| Nabobs | Who/What: white southerner position Where: Southern United States (Slave States) When: 1850 D/W: the gentry/ the high elite (that owned 50+ slaves), they held the most desirable position to be in as a white person |
| Second Great Awakening | Who/What: religious revival among blacks and whites Where: America When: 1790s D/W: the blacks created their own form of christianity, creating spirituals, and eventually different branches of christianity ( AME, UMC, Baptist etc.), the white's allowed the blacks to come to church w/ them and listen to sermons urging slave obedience |
| Harriet Tubman | Who/What: African American slave woman (martyr) Where: Southern United States (Slave States) When: 1790s D/W: freed several slaves from slavery/ assisted with the escape 60-70 slaves in all, she was from Maryland, it was unusual for women to escape because they usually had children and it was hard for them to leave |
| Nat Turner | Who/What: slave claimed to be possessed and enlightened by the Lord himself Where: Southern United States (Slave States) When: 1831 D/W: he revolted with 4 or 5 of his most trusted friends and killed his master, and the rest of his family (regardless of age), he continued to kill more and more white families, and gained slave supporters along the way |
| Black Codes | Who/What: laws passed detailing free blacks Where: America When: 1830s D/W: the free blacks couldn't carry guns or weapons, buy slaves (unless they were in the family), were given the same punishments as slaves, they get tried in court without a jury, they can't testify against whites, hold office, vote, or be in the militia |
| Temperance | Who/What: a reform movement trying to eliminate the consumption of alcohol Where: mostly in Northern United States When: 1820s D/W: led by mostly evangelicals trying to "revive" members of their community, trying to get them to stop drinking, people were getting mad because it was a staple to men and they didn't know life without it |
| Martha Washington Societies***** | Who/What: meeting of wives of reformers Where: mostly in Northern United States When: 1820s D/W: meetings of the wives of the men from the Temperance Reform Movement, they practiced temperance with their husbands |
| Female Moral Reform Society | Who/What: moral reform group Where: mostly Northern United States When: founded in 1834 D/W: women's group against prostitution founded by evangelical women in New York, took direct action on the patrons (throwing them in jail) |
| Dorthea Dix | Who/What: leader of a reform movement for insane asylums Where: mostly Northern United States When: 1843 D/W: she did studies of prisons and how they treated their mentally ill inmates, they were beaten into obedience, which led to her pushes for other movements like orphanages, refuge homes, shelters, and more hospitals, and also prison reform... |
| The Missouri Compromise | Who/What: compromise between the North and South regarding land and slavery Where: America When: 1820 D/W: Henry Clay created the compromise and it said that, Maine enters as a free state, and Missouri enters as a slave state (but most of the new land would be free) bringing up the question of balance between slave and free states |
| The American Colonization Society********** | Who/What: Where: America When: 1817 D/W: a society of northerners (religious reformers) mostly quakers and were anti-slavery, and also some were from the upper south... |
| Freedom's Journal*** | Who/What: newspaper Where: America When: 1800s D/W: it was the first all black staffed and published newspaper/journal, showed progress for African Americans |
| William Lloyd Garrison | Who/What: abolitionist publisher Where: Northern United States When: 1831 D/W: started the Liberator which became the "organ" for the anti-slavery movement, because it talked about all of the problems or events dealing with slavery |
| Sarah Grimke | Who/What: Southern raised slave owner Where: Southern United States When: 1848 D/W: she lived in a slave owning family until she and her sister left because they did not agree with slavery, they moved up north and spoke at anti-slavery conventions (but people got angry because they were women)--> they also created the "Letters on the Equality of the Sexes & The Condition of Women" (book talking about female rights)) |
| Seneca Falls Convention | Who/What: convention held for women's rights Where: Northern United States When: 1848 D/W: it was the first women's convention in America's history, women got the right to vote 72 years after the convention even proposed it, so it took a long time for them to even get recognition |
| Lucretia Mott | Who/What: Quaker woman standing for women's rights Where: born in Philadelphia When: 1848 D/W: She was one of the creators of the Seneca Falls Convention, and met Stanton in 1848 and created the convention and planned it with her |
| Elizabeth Cady Stanton | Who/What: activist for women's rights Where: Seneca Falls When: 1848 D/W: she was well known for her talking about anti-slavery, and then she met up with Lucretia Mott and created the Seneca Falls Convention |
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