Question | Answer |
Antebellum | the period before the Civil War |
Overseer | person responsible for assigning work and supervising slaves |
Driver | a slave placed in charge of other slaves |
Confederate States of America | the name of the government formed by the southern states in 1861 when they seceded from the Union |
Discrimination | actions that deny people their rights because of prejudice |
Slave Code | set of laws that defined social, economic, and physical limitations placed on slaves |
Abolitionists | people who worked to abolish slavery |
Underground Railroad | network of homes, farms, and churches from the South to the North and Canada where runaway slaves could rest and hide from slave catchers |
Slave States | states that permitted slavery |
Free States | states that did not permit slavery |
Arsenal | an arms storehouse |
Sectionalism | when people in one area think their ideas are correct or more important than those of another area |
States' Rights | the idea that powers not given to the federal government in the Constitution belong to each state |
Free Soilers | people who did not want slavery extended into western territories |
Secession | the act of pulling or breaking away |
Popular Sovreignty | right of people living in a territory to decide whether to be a slave or free state |
Tariff | a tax on imported goods |
Large planters owned how many slaves and how much land? | over 50 slaves and over 1,000 acres of land |
Large planters made up how much of white families? | less than 1% |
Small planters owned how many slaves and how much land? | between 20 and 49 slaves and between 100 and 1,000 acres of land |
Small planters made up how much of white families? | 3% |
Small planters produced many of what kind of leaders? | political |
Small planters controlled what of the South? | the wealth |
Farmers with slaves usually had how many slaves? | less than 20 |
Most farmers with slaves had how many slaves? | less than or equal to 5 |
Farmers with slaves lived where? | around towns and cities |
Which level of society worked side-by-side with their slaves? | farmers with slaves |
Farmers with slaves only held parties when? | around holidays and special occasions |
Merchants and "People of Letters" lived where? | mainly in towns and cities |
Merchants and "People of Letters" included what occupations? | cotton brokers, merchants, teachers, doctors, ministers, newspaper publishers, and lawyers |
Farmers with slaves encompassed how much of southern whites? | 20% |
Merchants and "People of Letters" were how much of southern white families? | 1-2% |
Artisans were part of which social level? | Merchants and "People of Letters" |
Who depended on their own talents and recognition? | Artisans |
Artisans included what occupations? | carpenters, bricklayers, millwrights, saddlers, shoemakers, milliners, furniture designers and makers, portrait painters |
Yeoman farmers were how much of southern white families? | 75% |
Which society level were subsistence farmers? | Yeoman farmers |
Free blacks included whom? | farmers, day laborers, artisans, and tenant farmers |
Free blacks were concentrated where? | upper South (Maryland and Virginia) |
Free blacks made up how much of southern society? | 6% |
Total free black population? | 500,000 |
In how many states did free blacks have voting rights? | 2 northern states |
How many slaves were there in 1860s? | 4 million |
What percentage of slaves in US lived in GA? | 11.5% |
Color judgement in slavery? | lighter complexions often had household positions, darker complexions were field slaves |
Household slaves got what? | better food, clothes, huts, etc. |