Vocab Quiz SS 9/27

Republican Motherhood

The idea that American women had a special responsibility to cultivate "civic virtue" in their children instead of falling into public roles such as voting and serving on juries which was advocated for by Mary Wollstonecraft. in a Vindication for the Rights of Women. Spoken by Reverend Thomas Bernard.

Toussaint louverture

Leader of the Haitian Revolution. He freed the slaves and gained effective independence for Haiti despite military interventions by the British and French.

American Colonization Society

According to Henry Clay who was a society member, slave owner, and speaker of the house of representatives. A Society that thought slavery was bad for economic progress since kentucky was behind in agriculture, manufacturing, advancement of society, etc. They would buy land in Africa and get free blacks to move there (only about 6000 were moved). One of these such colonies was made into what now is Liberia. Most sponsors just wanted to get blacks out of their country since emancipation without removal would yield chaos.

Southern Migration/Alabama Fever

A second stream of southern planters and slaves from the Carolinas moved along the coastal plain toward the Gulf of Mexico. Some set up new estates in the interior of Georgia and South Carolina, while others moved into the future states of Alabama, Mississippi and Louisiana. Alabama fever was the land rush that occurred after 1817 as settlers and speculators moved in to establish land claims in the territory and U.S. State of Alabama as Native American tribes ceded territory.

Manumission/ Gradual Abolition

Allowing owners to free their slaves (10000 slaves gained freedom). Legal act of relinquishing property rights in slaves in Virginia. Worried that large free black population would threaten the overall institution of slavery. Virginia Assembly repealed Virginia's 1782 manumission law in 1792. (Pg. 265)