APUSH Unit 7 Study Guide
APUSH Unit 7 Study Terms
Nat Turner:
-Preacher and prophet who believed God had given him a message to rebel; August 22 1831 group of slaves in Southampton County, Virginia started a rebellion with Turner as the leader; went from plantation to plantation, after 48 hours white forces stopped the rebellion, executed many, Turner was last to be captured;
So what?
-Killed over sixty whites
-Last slave rebellion of this kind during pre-Civil War period (armed resistence hadn’t ended)
William Lloyd Garrison:
-Put out first issue of newspaper “The Liberator”
So what?
-First publication by white author to demand immediate abolition of slavery (rather than gradual emancipation)
Plantation Agriculture:
-Slavery “essential” to plantation and economy, as plantations expanded so did need for slave labor, unfree blacks were only workers readily available to landowners; all whites were free, all blacks were workers (treated EXTREMELY poorly)
So what?
-Increased divisions in society as viewpoints on slavery became defined by region
-Caused “extreme” racism in the south
Socio-Economic Groups in the Old South (includes white, notice % that actually owned slaves & where they lived & blacks):
-Whites all free, believed to be the “master race”; inequality determined by class and by caste; large planters were dominant class, nonslaveholders were of lower social rank, planters (those who owned at least twenty slaves) tended to live in plantation areas of “cotton belt” (stretched from Georgia to Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, and Texas, also low country of South Carolina), yeoman farmers lived in upcountry and frontier areas and owned few or no slaves; in 1860 only 25% of whites belonged to families owning slaves, minority of whites were slaveholders on eave of Civil War (40%); planters minority of minority, 4% of total white population of South in 1860, 20% of whites owned 20 or less slaves, 75% of white males owned no slaves; also divisions within black
Nat Turner:
-Preacher and prophet who believed God had given him a message to rebel; August 22 1831 group of slaves in Southampton County, Virginia started a rebellion with Turner as the leader; went from plantation to plantation, after 48 hours white forces stopped the rebellion, executed many, Turner was last to be captured;
So what?
-Killed over sixty whites
-Last slave rebellion of this kind during pre-Civil War period (armed resistence hadn’t ended)
William Lloyd Garrison:
-Put out first issue of newspaper “The Liberator”
So what?
-First publication by white author to demand immediate abolition of slavery (rather than gradual emancipation)
Plantation Agriculture:
-Slavery “essential” to plantation and economy, as plantations expanded so did need for slave labor, unfree blacks were only workers readily available to landowners; all whites were free, all blacks were workers (treated EXTREMELY poorly)
So what?
-Increased divisions in society as viewpoints on slavery became defined by region
-Caused “extreme” racism in the south
Socio-Economic Groups in the Old South (includes white, notice % that actually owned slaves & where they lived & blacks):
-Whites all free, believed to be the “master race”; inequality determined by class and by caste; large planters were dominant class, nonslaveholders were of lower social rank, planters (those who owned at least twenty slaves) tended to live in plantation areas of “cotton belt” (stretched from Georgia to Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, and Texas, also low country of South Carolina), yeoman farmers lived in upcountry and frontier areas and owned few or no slaves; in 1860 only 25% of whites belonged to families owning slaves, minority of whites were slaveholders on eave of Civil War (40%); planters minority of minority, 4% of total white population of South in 1860, 20% of whites owned 20 or less slaves, 75% of white males owned no slaves; also divisions within black