HUSH Sem. 1 Unit 4-5

Final Review

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