Final Exam Study Guide
(Textbook Chapters 11-15 and lectures)
Slavery
What was Historians’ varying interpretations
● Utopian community
● “The Dunning school”- portrayed confederacy and slavery in a positive light.
● “U.B. Philips- pro slavery, racist
What was Slave profitability
● enslavement included prisoners of war, punishment for crime
● Often enslavers and enslaved were the same or similar race or ethnicity
● Old claim that slavery wasn't profitable.
What was Percentage of white Southerners owning slaves
● 25%
What was Slave life on plantations
● stockholm syndrome for Blacks from their enslavers.
● Adopted Each other's families when they were being split up.
What was Slave families
● Mistreatment, rape, abuse.
● Slave Families had to prepare their children for their father to leave and be sold
off from their plantation owner since the majority (Adult Black Male) were being
sold off.
● Enslaved slaves did not name children after themselves.(named by their
grandparents)
● Whites would use deceased names for their future children.
●
What was Slave art, language and culture
● Blacks made art through writings and songs.
● “Love and Theft”
● White enslavers were afraid of black music and writings since they believed it
could send messages over vibrations.
, What was “Gullah”
● It's a language.
● Referred to a culture and a way of life.
● “Creole Language”- Hybrid Language
What was African-American religion during slavery
● African-American Christianity
● Converting Christianity into their ways of white ideals, obedience to whites for
slaves. (Doctrines)
● African-American Christianity rejected Whites Ideals and adopted to see
themselves as God’s People and saw their enslavers as sinners.
● “Community Orientated”
Triumph of Sectionalism
What was Wilmot Proviso
● Congressmen for Penn, anti slavery
● Provisio- attachment to fund the army in mexico. Continue Mexican tradition for
freedom.
What was Compromise of 1850
● California admitted as free state
● Popular Sovereignty to decide the future of slavery in rest of mexican cession
○ “A chance to expand slavery”; Freedom vs. Slavery
● Banning Slave trade (not slavery) ended in D.C
● Toughened Federal Fugitive Slave Act.
What was Fugitive Slave Act of 1850
● NO Safe Havens; must go to canada for the freedom line.
● Household had to make a decision for slaves that were welcomed in their home.
What was "Popular sovereignty"
● Popular sovereignty is government based on consent of the people.
● Government established by free choice of the people is expected to serve the
people, who have sovereignty, or supreme power.
(Textbook Chapters 11-15 and lectures)
Slavery
What was Historians’ varying interpretations
● Utopian community
● “The Dunning school”- portrayed confederacy and slavery in a positive light.
● “U.B. Philips- pro slavery, racist
What was Slave profitability
● enslavement included prisoners of war, punishment for crime
● Often enslavers and enslaved were the same or similar race or ethnicity
● Old claim that slavery wasn't profitable.
What was Percentage of white Southerners owning slaves
● 25%
What was Slave life on plantations
● stockholm syndrome for Blacks from their enslavers.
● Adopted Each other's families when they were being split up.
What was Slave families
● Mistreatment, rape, abuse.
● Slave Families had to prepare their children for their father to leave and be sold
off from their plantation owner since the majority (Adult Black Male) were being
sold off.
● Enslaved slaves did not name children after themselves.(named by their
grandparents)
● Whites would use deceased names for their future children.
●
What was Slave art, language and culture
● Blacks made art through writings and songs.
● “Love and Theft”
● White enslavers were afraid of black music and writings since they believed it
could send messages over vibrations.
, What was “Gullah”
● It's a language.
● Referred to a culture and a way of life.
● “Creole Language”- Hybrid Language
What was African-American religion during slavery
● African-American Christianity
● Converting Christianity into their ways of white ideals, obedience to whites for
slaves. (Doctrines)
● African-American Christianity rejected Whites Ideals and adopted to see
themselves as God’s People and saw their enslavers as sinners.
● “Community Orientated”
Triumph of Sectionalism
What was Wilmot Proviso
● Congressmen for Penn, anti slavery
● Provisio- attachment to fund the army in mexico. Continue Mexican tradition for
freedom.
What was Compromise of 1850
● California admitted as free state
● Popular Sovereignty to decide the future of slavery in rest of mexican cession
○ “A chance to expand slavery”; Freedom vs. Slavery
● Banning Slave trade (not slavery) ended in D.C
● Toughened Federal Fugitive Slave Act.
What was Fugitive Slave Act of 1850
● NO Safe Havens; must go to canada for the freedom line.
● Household had to make a decision for slaves that were welcomed in their home.
What was "Popular sovereignty"
● Popular sovereignty is government based on consent of the people.
● Government established by free choice of the people is expected to serve the
people, who have sovereignty, or supreme power.
