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social studie packet
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| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Slaves Legal Status | Legally, slave holders could do almost anything with their human property Ex (Buy and sell slaves, Leave slaves to their children, and Give slaves away to settle bets) |
| Frederic Douglass | Former slave who toured he north talking to white audiences about slavery |
| Rural slaves | Worked on farms and plantations across the south. |
| urban slaves | 1860 70,000 urban slaves worked in factory's mills and workshop's. more free than Rural slaves but could not earn $. |
| african americans | not always slaves |
| whites | People who looked down on the african americans |
| free african americans | half of them lived in the south |
| what other jobs did slaves have | skilled seamstresses, carpenters or blacksmiths |
| how long did most slaves work for | age 6 till they died |
| children too young to work received two coarse linen shirts per year. when these failed them they went naked until the next allowance day | |
| what were slaves more likely to receive more the white southerners | medical care |
| how did slave holders keep their slaves firmly under controll | whipped beat branding |
| a slave who had been badly wiped might not be able to work for some time. | |
| owners treated their slaves like grown up children. | |
| for most slaves __ took the form of quiet acts of rebellion. | |
| servants slipped poison into the masters food. | |
| so many slaves set fire to their owners homes and barns american fire insurance company refused to insure property in the south | |
| some slaves tried to run away to freedom in the north | the risks of escape were enormous. most slaves knew little about the world beyond their owner's farm. |
| how did slaveholders hunt down runaway slaves | they hired professional slave catchers and their packs of howling bloodhounds to hunt them down |
| what would happen if you were caught | you would be mauled by dogs, brutally whipped, or even killed |
| slaves found many ways to escape bondage, what were some ways | walked to freedom in the north hiding by day and traveling at night when they could follow the northern star of by boat or train |
| no southern state allows slave marriages. | |
| slaves most feared being sold away from their loved ones | |
| what time was their own time | sunday and Saturday night |
| saturday night were | social events like corn husking or pea shelling parties |
| slaves made music out o almost anything what is an example | stretch cowhides over cheese boxes and you gad tambournes |
| what did you do on sunday | church eating hunting fishing dancing singing gamboling telling tales naming babies playing games drinking whiskey and visiting with friends |
| many slaveholders encouraged their slaves to attend church on sunday. | some read the bible to their workers and prayed with them. owners and white ministers preached the same message: you disobey you earthly master you offend your heavenly master |
| what did religion help slaves do | bear their suffering and still find joy in life in their prayers and spirituals longings their greatest sorrows and their highest hopes |
| Cotton was a HUGE cash crop | |
| to be wealthy a white person needed to grow cotton and to produce cotton you needed slaves | |
| nat turner | With guns and axes led a rebellion in Virginia in 1831 killing 57 people |
| what are the 4 different types of resistance in history | day to day, open defiance, running away and rebellion |
| what is an invisible church called | hush arbor |
| 1860 who became president | abraham Lincoln |
| Gag rule | |
| Wilmots amendment was strongly opposed by who | Southerners |
| banned slave trading in | Washington DC |
| the compromise satisfies no one | northerners or southend |
| the dissuasion of slave or free states were up to | the people |
| african americans were not american citizens | |
| the court is not making the write decision | the decision of the supreme court is the moral assassination of a race and cannot be obeyed said a new your news paper |
| Lincoln lost the election | |
| Lincoln writes a letter for the show to go on | |
| John brown was hung | |
| fort sumner fired first | |
| Charleston left the union | |
| Missouri is a slave state |
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