Antebellum Vocab
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- King Cotton
- drove the economy of the south
- Antebellum South
- south pre-war
- DeBow's Review
- magazine of "agricultural, commercial, and industrial progress and resource" in the South
- "Cavalier" image
- The reality about the south
- "slavocracy"
- The persons or interest formerly representing slavery politically
- Greek Revival-style
- Roman architecture
- Preston Brooks:
- assaulted Charles Sumner
- "Southern Belle"
- young woman of the American South's antebellum period upper class, known for her hospitality, beauty, and flirtatious.
- yeoman:
- a petty officer in a navy
- Southern paternalism:
- prerequisite for the rise of the national welfare state in the United States.
- Mississippi Married Women's Property Act of 1839:
- guaranteed the right of married women to receive income from their property and.
- "Peculiar Institution"
- contradiction of legalized slavery
- George Fitzhugh
- was a social theorist who published radical racial and slavery-based sociological theories
- "Sambo" image
- Slaves whose lives followed different lines and for whom slavery was a very different experience.
- William Harper
- he spoke out in favor of slavery
- manumission
- To free from slavery
- Gabriel Prosser:
- planned a failed slave rebellion
- Denmark Vesey
- his slave rebellion got leaked
- Nat Turner
- a rebellion that was the most remarkable instance of black resistance to enslavement
- African Methodist Episcopal Church
- church founded by Negroes
- Hinton Rowan Helper
- was a southern critic of slavery
- The Impending Crisis
- helpers book
- Gadsden Purchase
- land bought from mexico
- "Young America" Movement
- cause was to spread American democracy, ostensibly in order to overshadow slavery in the public debate
- Fugitive Slave Act
- group of laws referred to as the "Compromise of 1850." California= free state; texas = slave
- Ostend Manifesto
- strongly suggested that the United States should take Cuba by force if Spain refused to sell
- Preston Brooks
- assault upon Charles Sumner
- Thomas R. Dew
- said slavery is against Christianity
- Dred Scott v. Sanford
- declared that all blacks -- slaves as well as free -- were not and could never become citizens of the United
- Roger B. Taney
- * chief justice who held decision in Dred Scott case
- Daniel Webster
- lawyer and Federalist party leader. a champion of American nationalism
- Henry Clay
- "The Great Pacificator," the man who held together the Union.
- Stephen Douglas
- The little giant. He authored the Kansas-Nebraska Act
- Kansas-Nebraska Act
- allowed people in the territories of Kansas and Nebraska to decide for themselves whether or not to allow slavery within their borders.
- Republican Party
- consisted of Whigs, Democrats, nativists, free soilers all who wanted to stop slavery in new territories
- lyceums
- an educational institution
- Lecompton Constitution
- James Buchanan urged Congress to admit Kansas as a slave state. Rejected and Kansas became a free state
- "Border Ruffians"
- individuals on the western border of Missouri, who sought by illegal and violent means to determine the domestic institutions of Kansas Territory
- "Bleeding Kansas"
- Border Ruffians went to Kansas and terrorized and murdered antislavery settlers
- Stephen A. Douglas
- a moderate, who introduced the Kansas-Nebraska Act in 1854 and popularized the idea of popular sovereignty
- Lincoln-Douglas debates
- argued popular sovereignty, the Lecompton constitution and the Dred Scott decision
- A house divided against itself cannot stand
- said in Lincoln’s address, which paraphrases a statement by Jesus Christ
- Freeport Doctrine
- congress couldn’t force a territory to become slave state against its will
- John Brown
- militant abolitionist. Stole arsenal at Harper’s Ferry and killed slave owners and freed slaves
- Crittenden Plan
- to prevent slavery by splitting slave/anti states at 30*30’
- Confederate States of America
- pro-slavery states that left the US government
- Pottawatomie Massacre
- john brown let a party of six in Kansas that killed 5 pro-slavery men. Made border war a national issue
- Jefferson Davis
- president of confederacy in 1861
- Ft. Sumter, SC
- site of opening engagement of civil war
- Oligarchy
- form of government where political power effectively rests with a small, elite segment of society
- Prigg v. Pennsylvania
- case in which the court held that Federal law is superior to State law
- Ulysses S. Grant
- leading Union general in the American Civil War.
- code duello
- set of rules for a one-on-one combat
- Treaty of Kanagawa
- opened the Japanese ports of Shimoda and Hakodate to United States trade
- Lewis Cass
- brigadier general of war of 1812
- Matthew Perry
- Naval officer