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Dehumanization
Depriving someone of human rights or understandings
Atlantic slave trade
The Triangular Trade, Africans were dropped at the Middle passage to be brought into slavery
Middle Passage
Where Africans were sent to go to America for slavery
Resistance to slavery
-Starve
-Throw themselves overboard
Cotton gin
The machine that removed seeds from cotton, causing for slaves to be sent into field work since they were no longer needed for the seed removal
Cotton Kingdom
The region of the US dominated by cotton production (lower South)
Wilmot Proviso
Abolished slavery in California, Utah, and New Mexico, divided Congress along the regional line with Northerners angry over Southern refusal
Dred Scott
A slave who had been living as a free man for 5 years under his master but who was then denied official freedom after his master passed
Republican party
Wants to keep slavery out of the territories
Kansas-Nebraska Act
1854 bill introduced by Douglas that divided the area into Nebraska (North) and Kansas (South)
John Brown & Harpers’ Ferry
Believed God called upon him to fight slavery, on May 24, he brought his followers to Harpers Ferry, Virginia, and held 60 citizens hostage
1860 election
Abraham Lincoln won, slavery was the central issue
Secession
A formal widthdrawl of a state from a nation
Compromise of 1850
Henry Clay’s attempt to create something both the North and South could accept, ended up majorly favoring the South with the Fugitive Slave Act
Popular Sovereignty
The right of residents of a territory to vote for/against slavery
Fugitive Slave Act
Required those in free states to capture and return escaped slaves if found
Underground Railroad
A group of free African Americans and white abolitionists who would aid in the escape of the enslaved
Harriet Tubman
Freed slave that made 19 trips back South and assisted 300 slaves in their escape
Gettysburg Address
Abraham Lincoln’s most famous speech, following the Battle of Gettysburg in 1863, the “deadliest battle”
Emancipation Proclamation
Issued by Abraham Lincoln in 1862, stated that all slaves living in Confederate states will be free
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