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Chapter 9-10 SMO
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Monroe Doctrine terms | 1. Europeans can't be in western hemisphere, 2. US can't interfere with Europe, 3. No trading of colonies among European powers |
| Monroe's secretary of war | John C. Calhoun (1817) |
| Monroe's Speaker of the House of Representatives | Henry Clay (1817) |
| The American System | Government to promote economic growth and protest US from foreign competition |
| American System's three parts | National Bank, protective tariff, federal funds for internal stuff like National Road and Erie Canal |
| Land Act of 1820 | Land is $1.25 per acre, minimum 80 acre purchase |
| Mason-Dixon Line | above Maryland to separate British colonies |
| Year all northern states abolished slavery | 1819 |
| Missouri Compromise | 36-30, anything above is free state; Maine is free |
| Tallmadge Amendment | no more new slaves in Missouri, slaves are free after 25 |
| Cotton engine inventor | Eli Whitney |
| Reason for Alabama Fever | Cotton was tiring the soil after War of 1812, so people went to Georgia, Alabama, MS |
| January 1, 1808 | Abolished importation of slaves |
| Why couldn't the South be urban and industrial like the North? | 1. rural and more effort in plantations; 2. money was poured cotton/slaves |
| Distribution of slave labor | 55% cotton, 15% domestic work |
| Why is being sold down the river like a Second Middle Passage? | They were in slave pens or coffles |
| Gang Labor System | slave teams on plantations |
| Task Labor System | free time after job is done |
| Difference between white and black families | White families had dominant husband and submissive wife; black families had equal husband and wife |
| ___ slave marriages are broken, ____ kids sold from their families | 1/5, 1/3 |
| Second Great Awakening black churches | Baptist and Methodist |
| Black Christianity and how is it syncretism/acculturation | mixed with black elements |
| Harriet Tubman | underground railroad, 12 rescue missions, freed 300 slaves |
| John Brown | Mr. G's favorite, failed, militant abolitionist |
| Prosser's Rebellion | failed when Prosser got 1k slaves to attack VA |
| Denmark Vesey's Plot | failed and did not happen, just cracking down: seize Charleston and go to Haiti |
| Nat Turner's Rebellion | VA 1831: task labor system, nat turner killed his nice owner |
| Startling contrast of slaves | Most southerners owned 1 or 2 slaves, 2/3 of southerners did not have slaves |
| ___% of southerners had slaves in 1830 | 36 |
| ___% of southerners had 50+ slaves in 1830 | 2.5 |
| Proslavery arguments | Constitution and Bible allowed it, "free" and happy slaves in white care |
| How slavery was protected | gag rule (no slavery debate), burned propagandas, slaves can't read, death penalty for bad plotting, manumission illegal, no slave gatherings without supervision |
| Slave price | 1500 |
| Black belt | caused Alabama Fever, Georgia, Alabama, MS |
| Coffles | slaves chained in 50s |
| "As the master studies to keep the slave ignorant, the slave is cunning enough to make the master think he succeeds" | Frederick Douglass |
| William Lloyd Garrison and The Liberator | antislavery newspaper |
| Grimke sisters | left to north to be abolitionist |
| Rush-Bagot Treaty 1817 | Limited amount of US and British ships to be able to station at the Great Lakes |
| Anglo-American Treaty 1818 | Joint occupation of Oregon, settled boundary disputes |
| Adams-Onis Treaty | Spain gave Florida to US, US recognizes Louisiana Territory border, US pays 5 million dollar debt to Spain |