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Unit 1 Set 1 Civil War and Reconstruction

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Belonging to a period before a war, especially the American Civil War

Inheritable status

In the North American colonies and later in the U.S., children born to an enslaved mother inherited the status of the mother, making slavery a closed system

Chattel slavery

A system of bondage in which a slave has the legal status of property and so can be bought and sold like property.

plantation agriculture

Raising a large amount of a "cash crop" for local sale or export; in the antebellum South plantations relied on slave labor

Bacon's Rebellion

A 1676 rebellion in colonial Virginia , it marks a turning point after which planters began to rely more on slave labor. After seeing white indentured servants and enslaved blacks allied during the rebellion, the planter elite responded to the rebellion by hardening the racial caste system.