Second
Great Awakening:
The large scale spread of Christianity throughout the slave population as well
as slave-owners during the 1790s.
Harriet
Tubman:
A slave who led 60 of her fellow slaves to freedom along the Underground
Railroad. She is widely known as a
hero of her time.
Nat
Turner:
An intelligent priest that led an uprising of slaves in Virginia in 1831 that
resulted in the death of 55 whites before put to an end.
The rebellion struck fear into the hearts of many
slave-owners.
Black
codes:
Laws passed by states and cities that restricted the rights of free blacks, such
as the right to carry fire arms and the right to purchase
slaves.
Yeoman:
A term that refers to a small, self-sufficient farmer.
Yeomen prided themselves on independence and freedom and saw
industrialization and capitalism in the north as encroachments on their
freedom.
Denmark
Vesey:
A slave who led a revolt in which the rebels planned to seize control of
Charleston and sail to Haiti, which was a free black
republic. The conspiracy failed,
but the city of Charlestonreacted drastically, instantly
jailing any blacks that arrived in the
harbor.
Gag
Rule:
A policy introduced in 1836 by Southerners to Congress to prevent congressional
consideration of abolitionist petitions.
Hinton
Helper:
Author of The Impending Crisis. He was forced to move to New Yorkbecause of its
publication.
Underground
Railroad:
The route by which Harriet Tubman led slaves to freedom in the
North.
Gabriel’s Rebellion: A slave revolt in 1800
that failed when preacher Gabriel Prosser attempted to lead 1000 slaves in an
attack on Richmond,
Virginia.
Industrial
Revolution:
A revolution in production that allowed the South’s cotton industry to be
enormously profitable, especially in Britain.
Sold
“Down the River”: A term that refers to the internal slave
trade in which slaves were sold from the Upper South to the Lower South, where
the wealthy elite owned large plantations with many
slaves.
Gang
System: The organization and supervision of
teams of slaves on large southern
plantations.
Planter
Elite:
The extremely rich 2.5% of the population of the South who owned 50 or more
slaves. Most of the people in this
stratus of society inherited their wealth and led southern
politics.
Sociology
for the South:
A book by George Fitzhugh which aggressively supported slavery, arguing that
slaves in the South were some of the happiest and were in a better position
than wage-earners in the North.
The
Impending Crisis:
A book by Hinton Helper that was an attack on
slavery.
Great Awakening:
The large scale spread of Christianity throughout the slave population as well
as slave-owners during the 1790s.
Harriet
Tubman:
A slave who led 60 of her fellow slaves to freedom along the Underground
Railroad. She is widely known as a
hero of her time.
Nat
Turner:
An intelligent priest that led an uprising of slaves in Virginia in 1831 that
resulted in the death of 55 whites before put to an end.
The rebellion struck fear into the hearts of many
slave-owners.
Black
codes:
Laws passed by states and cities that restricted the rights of free blacks, such
as the right to carry fire arms and the right to purchase
slaves.
Yeoman:
A term that refers to a small, self-sufficient farmer.
Yeomen prided themselves on independence and freedom and saw
industrialization and capitalism in the north as encroachments on their
freedom.
Denmark
Vesey:
A slave who led a revolt in which the rebels planned to seize control of
Charleston and sail to Haiti, which was a free black
republic. The conspiracy failed,
but the city of Charlestonreacted drastically, instantly
jailing any blacks that arrived in the
harbor.
Gag
Rule:
A policy introduced in 1836 by Southerners to Congress to prevent congressional
consideration of abolitionist petitions.
Hinton
Helper:
Author of The Impending Crisis. He was forced to move to New Yorkbecause of its
publication.
Underground
Railroad:
The route by which Harriet Tubman led slaves to freedom in the
North.
Gabriel’s Rebellion: A slave revolt in 1800
that failed when preacher Gabriel Prosser attempted to lead 1000 slaves in an
attack on Richmond,
Virginia.
Industrial
Revolution:
A revolution in production that allowed the South’s cotton industry to be
enormously profitable, especially in Britain.
Sold
“Down the River”: A term that refers to the internal slave
trade in which slaves were sold from the Upper South to the Lower South, where
the wealthy elite owned large plantations with many
slaves.
Gang
System: The organization and supervision of
teams of slaves on large southern
plantations.
Planter
Elite:
The extremely rich 2.5% of the population of the South who owned 50 or more
slaves. Most of the people in this
stratus of society inherited their wealth and led southern
politics.
Sociology
for the South:
A book by George Fitzhugh which aggressively supported slavery, arguing that
slaves in the South were some of the happiest and were in a better position
than wage-earners in the North.
The
Impending Crisis:
A book by Hinton Helper that was an attack on
slavery.