QUIZ 29 - Class 31: FINALS, Chapter 12, Biography of America Film Guide | T: 1, P: 23

Frederick Olmstead Northern Differences

This man's descriptions of the North:

1. Industrial

2. Urbanized/less patriarchial

3. Booming

Frederick Olmstead Southern Differences

This man's descriptions of the South:

1. Agriculture-based

2. Hierarchial

3. Static

George Fitzhugh Northern Society

This man's descriptions of Northern Society:

- A failure B/C wage labor is exploitative

ex. slaves w/o masters

North/South Economic Links

The links between the North and the South

1. Northern investors/banks credit Southern businesses/farms

2. Northern ships transport Southern Goods

3. Notherners buy Southern goods

North and South Major Differences

The major differences between these two regions:

1. Less Southern production vs. More Northern production

2. Big Southern agriculture labor force vs. Small Northern agriculture labor force

- B/C industrialization

3. More Northern modernization/urbanization

4. Southern slavery vs. X Northern slavery

The North and Race

The views of race from this region

- X morality, but on economics

- Intolerant

Southern Slavery Myth

The myth: everybody owned slaves in this region

The reality: not everyone owned slaves

- 3/4 Yeoman farmers, 1/4 slave owners

Southern Society Ties

The ties in this society between slaveowners and non-slaveowners

- The same B/C white

Fredrick Douglass

The former slave who traveled the country speaking out against slavery and founder of the abolitionist newspaper called The North Star

- Created a biography called The Life of Fredrick Douglass, X happy slave stereotypes, explained slavery traditions

Slave Religion

This was one part of how slaves resisted the institution of slavery:

1. Prayer meetings

2. Slave-holding religion -> Slave-empowering religion

3. Exodus deliverance

- Hope for freedom

Family

This was one part of how slaves resisted the institution of slavery:

- Maintaining family connections, even when being separated

Literature/Literacy

This was one part of how slaves resisted the institution of slavery:

1. Writing letters

2. Reading

- Literacy = Freedom

3. Stories

ex. Trickster stories about slave freedom

Everyday Work Activities

This was one part of how slaves resisted the institution of slavery:

1. Stealing food

2. Breaking tools

3. Feining illnesses

Nat Turner's Rebellion Results

This is how the slaveowners react to this rebellion:

1. Nervous

2. Believed widespread conspiracies

Northern Conspiracy

The conspiracy believed by Northerners that a big slavery force would spread throughout the North

Southern Conspiracy

The conspiracy believed by Southerners that the North was going to fully end slavey

Virginia's Response to Nat Turner

The response of this state's legislature calling for the removal of blacks from all free states and re-enslave them

- The creation of West Virginia

John C. Calhoun Slavery Defense

The comment by John C. Calhoun stating slavery is not a political or moral evil, but is a safe and stable world institution

Anti-Slavery Movement

The movement ran by moderates that believed slavery was wrong, but the 5th Amendment protected it

- X abolitionists, X expansion

- Yes economic/political, X moral

William Lloyd Garrison

The radical abolitionist who believed slavery was a moral evil

1 Author of The Liberator

2. Burnt public copy of the Constitution

3. People feared he would cause sesession B/C of his radicality

1833

The year Slavery was abolished throughout the British Empire, and the year the South protected slavery against Britain and Abolitionists

Legal

One point of view that stated slavery justified B/C it was protected by the 5th Amendment

Religious

One point of view that stated slavery was justified by the Bible B/C of obeying masters, while also sharing the Exodus story

Economics

One point of view that stated slavery was justified B/C 1/2 American exports were economics, and 8/9 cotton came from the South (1860)

Historical

One point of view that stated slavery was justified B/C slavery was a classic part of society

ex. Greeks, Romans

"Science"

One point of view that stated slavery was justified B/C "God made black people for slavery"

- Based on skull circumference correlating w/ intelligence

Peculiar

Unique

- The corner store of America in the world

Dr. Samuel Morton

The psuedoscience Northern doctor who measured the circumference of African and White skulls

- Result: Yes science B/C smaller black circumference

Senate Imbalance

This imbalance would cause states not being able to self-govern B/C sole-Northern power to pass legislation

- B/C couldn't find suitable slave states