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DCUSH Amistad
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What did well-to-do Americans fear about “brats”? | If they didn't pay to educate the "brats," they might grow up into a dangerous, ignorant rabble that was armed with a vote. |
| Describe what was starting to happen with middle-class women. | They were prominent in reform crusades, especially in their own struggle for suffrage. They were entering the arena of public affairs. |
| What is temperance and how is it different from teetotalism? | Temperance is not staying away and not drinking much alcohol. Teetotalism is the total elimination of intoxicants. |
| What happened to property when a woman married? | When a woman married her property became her husband's property. |
| In addition to women’s rights, what other areas did women reform for? | They reformed for temperance and the abolition of slavery. |
| Elizabeth Cady Stanton advocated for what? | Suffrage for women. |
| How did the north benefit from cotton? | The north benefited from cotton trade. They would load bulging bales of cotton at southern ports, transport them to England, sell their cargo for pounds sterling, and buy needed manufactured goods for sale in the United States. |
| Describe the role cotton played in the economy of the south. | The south produced more than half of the entire world's supply of cotton. |
| Summarize the number of slaves per family in the south | In 1850 Only 1,733 owned more than 100 slaves in the south. |
| How did the gap between rich and poor widen in the south? | Dominance by a favored aristocracy. |
| Why were slaves a heavy investment in capital? | Slaves cost $1,200 each in the case of prime field hands, where they might injure themselves, run away, or be wiped out from disease or lightning. |
| How did the reliance on cotton make for a dangerous economy in the south? | The price level was at the mercy of world conditions and the whole system discouraged a healthy diversification of agriculture and particularly of manufacturing. |
| Relate how southern white farmers resembled northern white farmers. | The lesser masters who were typically small farmers resembled white farmers with the style of their lives. |
| How many white farmers owned no slaves? | 3/4 of all southern whites owned no slaves by 1860. |
| How were these white farmers seen in their communities by slave owners and slaves? | They were called poor white trash, hillbillies, crackers, or clay eaters. They were often described as listless, shiftless, and misshapen. |
| Why did the white farmers support the slave system? | They had hope of buying a slave or two and had parlaying hopes of the "American Dream" of upward social mobility. They also took pride in their presumed racial superiority. |
| How many free blacks were in the south? | 250,000 |
| Describe the lives free blacks had in the north. | They had hard lives as many states forbade their entrance, most denied them to vote, and some barred them from public schools. They were hated by the Irish and Anti-black feeling was frequently stronger in the North than in the South. |
| Summarize what happened in 1808 with plantation slavery. | Even though legal importation ended thousands of blacks were still smuggled to the South because the price for "black ivory" was so high. |
| Give the books examples of how the slave owners cared for their assets due to the slaves being their wealth. | They were cared for like any asset is cared for by a prudent capitalist. They mostly did not do dangerous work and slave owners would rather higher an Irish person for dangerous work. |
| Describe the improper treatment of female slaves on the plantations. | Women were prized as rattling good breeders and often bore 13-14 children. They were told they could be set free after having 10 children. |
| Explain what happened at the auctions. | It was a brutal sight where families were separated from each other on the auction block due to economic reasons. |
| Summarize a workday for slaves. | The slaves usually toiled from dawn to dusk in the fields over the watchful eyes of and ready whip hand of a white overseer or black driver. |
| Describe the difference between overseers and drivers. | The overseer was the guy with the whip and the driver was a black person who had been "promoted" to help direct the slaves. |
| Explain the treatment of the slaves in the south. | Life was often rough and raw, and it was harder in the Deep South than in the areas of the Old South. |
| State how family life and religion existed with the slaves. | Family life was relatively stable as most slaves were raised in two-parent households. They named Children for grandparents and didn't marry close relatives. They had a mixture of Christianity and African elements. |
| How many slaves were illiterate? | 9/10 of adult slaves. |
| Summarize the rebellion by Nat Turner. | Nat Turner led an uprising that slaughtered about sixty Virginians, mostly women and children. Reprisals were swift and bloody. |
| What was Liberia? | It was established for former slaves where some fifteen thousand blacks were transported there over the next four decades. |
| Why would many or most slaves not want to return to Africa upon achieving freedom? | They didn't want to go to a strange civilization when they had already been partially Americanized. |
| Describe William Lloyd Garrison’s attitude toward slavery in his newspaper The Liberator. | He was radicalized against it and hated it. |
| Who was Sojourner Truth? | A freed black woman in New York who fought tirelessly for black emancipation and women's rights. |
| Who was Frederick Douglas? | The greatest abolitionist where he lectured widely for antislavery. |
| Amistad | Slaves bought in Cuba. They took control of ship and fled to Africa but land in New Haven, Conn. Main slave is Cinque. They win in court with Roger Baldwin. Gov appeals to Supreme Court who votes 8-1 for the slaves. JQA helped argue for the slaves. |
| Where was Henry "Box" Brown born into slavery. | Born in Richmond Virginia. He had three kids and one on the way, and his life was pretty good at the time. |
| Describe the event that led Henry “Box” Brown to decide to escape slavery. | His wife and kids got sold to a different owner. |
| Where was the trip to freedom that Henry "Box" Brown had himself shipped from? | Philadelphia. He was shipped in a very small box for 26 hours and he was upside down for over several hours. |
| Dred Scott had been born where? | He was born into slavery in Virginia |
| What free states had Scott been taken to? | Illinois and Wisconsin |
| Where was Scott told to report to from the free state? | St. Louis, Missouri. |
| When did Dred Scott sue for his freedom? | 1846 |
| The Supreme Court ruled how in the case? | Against Scott because they said that since he was black, he had no right to sue in the first place. |
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