Unit 2 Afro History

Unit 2

The Early Republic and Westward Expansion

1796 Washington's Farewell Address: Addresses 5 points

  • Political parties are bad/causes division

  • We need national unity

  • Follow laws

  • Stay out of foreign conflicts

  • Don’t let other nations mess with our business

1803 Haitian Slave Rebellion

  • Worries U.S (Slave country)

    • Negative reaction

  • Louisiana purchase was a result from the rebellion

War of 1812

  • South and west want to fight Canada

    • They profit

  • U.S is not a unified country they are divided

  • Black people generally support the U.S

  • British promised freedom to slaves if they support Britain

  • Star spangled banner was written

1823 Monroe Doctrine

  • Europeans can not colonize Americas

  • We will stay out of European conflicts

  • We will defend ourselves if threatened

Manifest Destiny

  • Removal of Native Americans

Trail of Tears

  • Removes/migrates the Cherokee

The Texas Revolution

Mexican American War/Texas annexation

  • Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo

    • Mexico cession

    • U.S pays Mexico 10 million dollars

    • Promise citizenship to Mexicans

Slavery in the constitution

Antebellum

  • Before the civil war

Sectionalism

  • Conflict between the north and south

Chattel

Manumission

Fugitive Slave Law of 1793

  • Provided for prosecution of people who prevented the capture and return of fugitive slaves as required in the Fugitive Slave Clause of the Constitution

1804

  • Slavery is banned in every northern state

1808

  • External slave trade is banned

    • Not very effective

    • Internal slave trade expands

Benjamin Banneker

The colonization movement and the american colonization society

Paul Cuffee

  • a Black sailor, trader, and activist promoted the idea of sending Free Blacks to the British colony of Sierra Leone

Geographic Distribution of Free Blacks

Life for free Blacks

King Cotton

  • Drives American economy

Southern Whites

  • Most Southerners did not own slaves only very few who were very wealthy

Control Methods

  • Overseer

  • Slave Driver

Slave codes and Slave Patrols

  • Slave codes (laws applies to slave people)

    • Slaves defined as property

    • Can’t hit white people

    • Can rape slave females

    • Slaves could not own property

    • Slaves could not leave plantation

  • Slave patrols

    • All white people forced to patrol and were fined money if they didn't

    • Had to monitor movement and activity of black people 

Religious practices of slaves

  • Slave owners tried to control the narrative of Christianity

  • Enslaved people created their own churches

Slave Culture

  • Worship, song, love, courtship,

  • Slaves gathered on free days such as holidays, militia musters, and election day