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ch10 out of many
chapter 10 out of many
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Flatboat wars | conflict between the flatboatmen and guards in which the council enacted a tax to get rid of the flatboatmen’s district and caused an uproar |
| Natchez~under~the~hill | wharf district of the most impoverished and disreputable of the flatboatmen~ a bustling polyglot trading community |
| Fort Rosalie | fort established by the French in the 1720s, was rechristened Natchez~under~the~hill |
| Nat Turner | led a slave revolt in Virginia in 1831 in which 55 white people were killed |
| Natchez | Home to the rich slave~owning elite |
| Cotton | Became the dominant crop in a rapidly expanding south |
| Eli Whitney | Young northern who along with a graduate from Yale and Catherine Greene created the cotton gin in 1793 |
| Black belt | An area stretching through western Georgia, Alabama, and Mississippi that was blessed with exceptionally fertile soil |
| Trail of tears | In 1838, the five civilized tribes were forced to give up their lands and move to Indian territory |
| Industrial Revolution | Revolution in the means and organization of production |
| Browns Providence | New England family who made fortunes in the slave trade |
| Boston Associates | Merchants who financed the cotton textile mills at Lowell |
| Alexander McDonald | Charleston trader who served as an alderman and a bank president |
| Prime field hand | A strong, hardworking slave was valuable property |
| Solomon Northup | Northern free African American kidnapped into slavery and had 3 owners and was hired out as a carpenter |
| Manumission | Freeing of a slave |
| Fanny Kemble | An accomplished actress came to her husband’s plantation in GA |
| Jermain Loguen | An escaped slave |
| Frederick Douglass | Famous African American because of his abolitionist movements |
| Second Great Awakening | Religious revival among black and white southerners in the 1790s |
| First African churches | African American Baptist and Methodist churches were founded in Philadelphia in 1794 by Reverend Absalom Jones and the Reverend Richard Allen |
| AME | American Methodist Episcopal created by Richard Allen and other ministers from other cities |
| Harriet Tubman | Made 12 rescue missions freeing 60~70 slaves |
| Joseph Travis | Nat Turner’s master who treated him with kindnesss |
| Thomas R. Gray | A white lawyer to whom Turner dictated a lengthy confession before his death |
| Gabriel’s Rebellion | Slave revolt that failed when Gabriel Prosser, a slave preacher and blacksmith, organized a thousand slaves for an attack on Richmond, VA in 1800 |
| Nat Turner’s Revolt | Uprising of slaves in Southampton County, VA, in the summer of 1831 led by Nat Turner that resulted in the death of 55 white people |
| Black codes | Laws concerning free black people |
| William Gregg | A successful jeweler from Columbia, SC wanted to establish cotton textiles in the south |
| Tredegar Iron Works | By 1837 was the 3rd largest foundry in the nation |
| Joseph Anderson | Became manager of the Tredegar Iron Works in 1841 and used slave labor in the mills |
| Yeomen | Independent farmers of the south, most of whom lived on family~sized farms |
| Thomas Chaplin of Tombee Plantation | Grew sea island cotton |
| Nabobs | Rich planters of the Natchez community |
| Surgets | Of French origin, traced their wealth farther back to a Spanish grant of 2500 acres |
| Thomas Taylor | A Pennsylvania Quaker who visited Natchez in 1847 |
| Mary Boykin Chestnut | Wife of south Carolina slave owner |
| Denmark Vesey’s Conspiracy | The most carefully devised slave revolt in which rebels planned to seize control of Charleston in 1822 and escape to freedom in Haiti, a free black republic, but they were betrayed by other slaves, and 75 conspirators were executed. |
| James Henry Hammond | Elected a south Carolina congressman in 1834 |
| Geroge Fitzhugh | Southern spokesmen asserted that “the negro slaves of the south are the happiest” |
| Hinton Helper | Published an attack on slavery in a book titled The Impending crisis. |
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