APUSH UNIT 4 TERMS AMSCO 62
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
Nativism - ANSWER Native-born Americans who wanted to slow or stop immigration. Partially
racism. Some argued that the new immigrants were inferior to the Americans. Some viewed
immigrants with contempt as they viewed blacks and indians. Their evidence for claims were
the slums in which they lived
Know-Nothings - ANSWER a former political party active in the 1850s to keep power out of the
hands of immigrants and Roman Catholics (called nativists)
Commonwealth v. Hunt - ANSWER Landmark Supreme Court Case in 1842; Massachusetts court
declared that labor unions were legal & had the right to strike for better wages.
King Cotton - ANSWER Expression used by Southern authors and orators before the Civil War to
indicate the economic dominance of the Southern cotton industry, and that the North needed
the South's cotton. In a speech to the Senate in 1858, James Hammond declared, "You daren't
make war against cotton! ...Cotton is king!"
Deep South - ANSWER It was previously called the "lower South." It is where cotton was most
dominant. It was also called the "Cotton Kingdom." Thousands of white people came hoping to
become wealthy via cotton planting.
Codes of Chivalry - ANSWER in order for wealthy southern whites to sustain their image of
aristocrats, they adopted an elaborate code, which obligated white men to defend their honor,
often through dueling, and they avoided occupations in trade and commerce and either became
planters or went into the military
Planter aristocracy - ANSWER South governed by select few rich people, was the head of the
southern society. they determined the political, economic, and even the social life of their
region. the wealthiest had home in towns or cities as well as summer homes, and they traveled
widely, especially to europe, children got good education. they were defined as the cotton
, magnates, the sugar, rice, and tobacco, the whites who owned at least 40 or 50 slaves and 800
or more acres
Peculiar Institution - ANSWER Slavery was an institution unique to only southern society
(started when 20 African slaves came to Virginia on a Dutch ship.) Slaves in total made up 1/3 of
the total southern population, and about ½ the population in the Deep South.
Slave codes - ANSWER Laws that controlled the lives of enslaved african americans and denied
them basic rights
Gabriel Prosser - ANSWER he gathered 1000 rebellious slaves outside of Richmond; but 2
Africans gave the plot away, and the Virginia militia stymied the uprising before it could begin,
along with 35 others he was executed
Denmark Vesey - ANSWER A mulatto who inspired a group of slaves to seize Charleston, South
Carolina in 1822, but one of them betrayed him and he and his thirty-seven followers were
hanged before the revolt started
Nat Turner - ANSWER Slave in Virginia who started a slave rebellion in 1831 believing he was
receiving signs from God His rebellion was the largest sign of black resistance to slavery in
America and led the state legislature of Virginia to a policy that said no one could question
slavery
Slave resistance - ANSWER Actual slave revolts were rare, but knowledge struck terror into
hearts of white southerners. For the most part, resistance took less drastic forms like running
away. Most important method of resistancewas simply a pattern of everyday behavior: defying
their masters. Some stole from masters or neighboring whites, some performed acts of
sabotage
Webster-Hayne Debate - ANSWER An argument between Daniel Webster and Robert Hayne,
about the issue states' rights versus national power. Webster said that Hayne was a challenge to
the integrity of the Union. Hayne responded with a defense of the theory of nullification.
Webster then spent two full afternoons delievering what became known as his "Second Reply to
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
Nativism - ANSWER Native-born Americans who wanted to slow or stop immigration. Partially
racism. Some argued that the new immigrants were inferior to the Americans. Some viewed
immigrants with contempt as they viewed blacks and indians. Their evidence for claims were
the slums in which they lived
Know-Nothings - ANSWER a former political party active in the 1850s to keep power out of the
hands of immigrants and Roman Catholics (called nativists)
Commonwealth v. Hunt - ANSWER Landmark Supreme Court Case in 1842; Massachusetts court
declared that labor unions were legal & had the right to strike for better wages.
King Cotton - ANSWER Expression used by Southern authors and orators before the Civil War to
indicate the economic dominance of the Southern cotton industry, and that the North needed
the South's cotton. In a speech to the Senate in 1858, James Hammond declared, "You daren't
make war against cotton! ...Cotton is king!"
Deep South - ANSWER It was previously called the "lower South." It is where cotton was most
dominant. It was also called the "Cotton Kingdom." Thousands of white people came hoping to
become wealthy via cotton planting.
Codes of Chivalry - ANSWER in order for wealthy southern whites to sustain their image of
aristocrats, they adopted an elaborate code, which obligated white men to defend their honor,
often through dueling, and they avoided occupations in trade and commerce and either became
planters or went into the military
Planter aristocracy - ANSWER South governed by select few rich people, was the head of the
southern society. they determined the political, economic, and even the social life of their
region. the wealthiest had home in towns or cities as well as summer homes, and they traveled
widely, especially to europe, children got good education. they were defined as the cotton
, magnates, the sugar, rice, and tobacco, the whites who owned at least 40 or 50 slaves and 800
or more acres
Peculiar Institution - ANSWER Slavery was an institution unique to only southern society
(started when 20 African slaves came to Virginia on a Dutch ship.) Slaves in total made up 1/3 of
the total southern population, and about ½ the population in the Deep South.
Slave codes - ANSWER Laws that controlled the lives of enslaved african americans and denied
them basic rights
Gabriel Prosser - ANSWER he gathered 1000 rebellious slaves outside of Richmond; but 2
Africans gave the plot away, and the Virginia militia stymied the uprising before it could begin,
along with 35 others he was executed
Denmark Vesey - ANSWER A mulatto who inspired a group of slaves to seize Charleston, South
Carolina in 1822, but one of them betrayed him and he and his thirty-seven followers were
hanged before the revolt started
Nat Turner - ANSWER Slave in Virginia who started a slave rebellion in 1831 believing he was
receiving signs from God His rebellion was the largest sign of black resistance to slavery in
America and led the state legislature of Virginia to a policy that said no one could question
slavery
Slave resistance - ANSWER Actual slave revolts were rare, but knowledge struck terror into
hearts of white southerners. For the most part, resistance took less drastic forms like running
away. Most important method of resistancewas simply a pattern of everyday behavior: defying
their masters. Some stole from masters or neighboring whites, some performed acts of
sabotage
Webster-Hayne Debate - ANSWER An argument between Daniel Webster and Robert Hayne,
about the issue states' rights versus national power. Webster said that Hayne was a challenge to
the integrity of the Union. Hayne responded with a defense of the theory of nullification.
Webster then spent two full afternoons delievering what became known as his "Second Reply to
