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Brinkley APUSH ch.11
Ch. 11 us history Identifications
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Long-staple cotton | Another lucrative crop in the 1820a and 1830s but it only grew in the limited area of the coastal regions of the southeast. |
| Tredegar iron works | Richmond Virginia; an iron mill that compared fairly well with the best iron mills in the northeast. |
| “factors” | Also known as brokers, they marketed the planters’ crops. They often served as bankers in the south by giving out credit. They were people of considerable influence and importance. |
| De Bow’s review | James b. D. De Bow of new Orleans published this magazine that advocated the south maintaining an independent economy from the north. The magazine was from 1846-1880. |
| “cavalier” image | A set of distinctive values of the south belief in a lifestyle that was based on traditional values like chivalry, leisure and elegance. Southerners believed in living what |
| Planter aristocracy | The wealthy few who exercised great power and influence far greater than the number of actual people who were planter aristocracy. They created the image of the south that many people are most familiar with. |
| Preston Brooks | South Carolina congressman; He beat Senator Charles Sumner of Massachusetts with a cane—example of the Cult of Honor lifestyle—as a result of what he felt was an insult to his honor. Southerners called him a hero, northerners called him a savage. |
| The “southern lady” | Cult of honor= men defend women more=men were even more dominate than women, women less independent that north; Most lived on farms in relative isolation, main role wives and mothers. |
| “crackers” | Aka “sand hillers” or “poor white trash” or “clay eaters” since sometimes they had to resort to eating clay they were so poor. |
| “head driver” | A trusted and responsible slave that acted under the overseer as a foreman. These men were used to help keep the plantation stable before the Civil War. |
| Task system/gang system | Task system-rice plantations-slaves assigned to a task in the morning and then free for the rest of the day.The gang system,used on cotton, sugar/tobacco plantations slaves assigned to a group overseer would determine the amount of work in one day. |
| Household servants | These servants would live close to the family, even in the “big house” sometimes, and eat the family's leftovers. It was hard because they didn't have much privacy and their mistakes could be seen a lot easier, so they were punished more while being that |
| Elizabeth Keckley | A slave woman who bought freedom for herself and her son by her sewing. She ended up becoming a seamstress and personal companion to Mary Todd Lincoln. |
| “Sambo” | The stereotype of a slave that was the “shuffling, grinning, head-scratching slave” that did what he thought the whites expected of him. |
| Gabriel Prosser | A man who in 1800 gathered 1,000 slaves outside of Richmond to lead a rebellion, but they were given away by two men and the VA militia stopped the uprising before it could begin. 35 were executed. |
| Nat Turner | A slave preacher who in 1831 lead a band of African Americans who armed themselves with weapons and went from house to house killing sixty white men, women, and children before they were stopped by troops. More than 100 were executed. |
| Underground railroad | Something that was started by sympathetic whites to assist slaves in escaping from their masters. It was pretty unlikely that they wouldn't get caught though. |
| “slave patrols” | White men that stopped blacks in the street to check for a travel permit, which without they would get taken captive. |
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