KIN 3305: HISTORY FINAL
31 Cards in this Set
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Eli Whitney
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A Yale graduate working in Georgia as a private tutor, he is most known for his invention of the Cotton Gin. He also created a system of interchangeable parts, which allowed for a mass production of weapons at a cheaper cost.
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Eli Whitney
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-Englishman
-Meets Nathaniel Greene's wife on ship
-Made a model of the cotton gin while on a plantation
-Invented the Cotton Gin that created a higher demand for cotton
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Eli Whitney
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inventor of the cotton gin; revolutionized the way cotton was manufactured.
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Eli Whitney
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In 1798, received government contract to make 10,000 muskets
Showed that machine tools could make standardized parts to exact specifications
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Eli Whitney
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-founding fathers really thought that slavery was dying out until Eli Whitney invented the cotton gin and made cotton much more cost effective and slavery boomed again
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eli whitney definition and significance
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invented cotton gin, sped up cotton process - made cotton king in south and renewed the need for slave labor
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Eli Whitney
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In 1793 Eli Whitney invented a mechanism known as the Cotton Gin that reduced the cleaning of the raw North American cotton from a pound a day to fifty pounds a day. Whitney's gin made cotton a viable cash crop for much of the south and strengthened the economic foundation of slavery
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slave codes
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laws to keep slaves inferior
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Slave codes
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Strict laws that restricted the right and activities of slaves
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slave codes
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-late 17th, early 18th century. A series of laws passed in southern states to
- defend the status of slaves and codify the denial of basic civil rights to them.
- prevent slaves from running away or rebelling.
- prevented slaves from gathering in groups or learning to read or write.
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Slave codes
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Forbade slaves to have property, to leave their masters' property without permission, to be out after dark, to congregate with other slaves except at church, to carry firearms, to testify in court against white people, or to strike a white person even in self defense.
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slave codes significance
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-proved that paternalism was a lie
*if the slaves were happy you wouldnt need slave codes
-it proved that slaves werent happy
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The Liberator
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Created by William Lloyd Garrison, 1831.
-First notable abolitionist paper.
-Garrison and his paper zealously promoted the abolition of slavery.
Troubles:
-low circulation
-Garrison turned off readers.
-Authorities confiscated issues of the paper.
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The Liberator
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predicted slavery would soon be abolished
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The Liberator significance
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A. abolitionist newspaper founded by William Lloyd Garrison in 1831. Garrison published weekly issues of The Liberator from Boston continuously for 35 years, from1831 to 1866. the newspaper earned nationwide notoriety for its uncompromising advocacy of "immediate and complete emancipat…
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Fugitive Clause significance
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-created more sectionalism
-the north resulted to violence and became more extreme because of the law
-they organized and armed themselves and "dared" the south and laws to take their black friends from them
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emancipation proclamation
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- there was no excitement behind the document
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Emancipation Proclamation
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but the North now had help from France and Europe.
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Emancipation Proclamation
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Applied only to slaves outside of Union control
Left slavery untouched in the border states
Committed the Union to a war of abolition in the South
Gave Union a higher moral reason for the war
Encourage more slaves to join union army
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Emancipation Proclamation: Significance
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It freed the slaves in those parts of the south which continued the war as of Jan 1, 1863. It changed the war from one where the north was trying to "preserve the union" - once the country was reunited then it could be decided what, if anything, to do about slavery, into a war to free the…
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emancipation proclamation significance
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-despite its weaknest, its symbolic symbol cannot be understated
-it turnes the war from total to the fight against slavery
-slaves are able to hold weaponry and uniform
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Discuss the timing and significance of Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation
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Lincoln waited until a victory by the Union to set forth the Emancipation Proclamation. This doctrine freed all slaves in the confederate states that were in rebellion. It did not free slaves in the Border States because these slaves were not in rebellion. If he could get the slaves in th…
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Emancipation Proclamation
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freedom to slaves in Confederate states and areas of active rebellion not including border states, confederate states that rejoined the union
north was for it but the border states wanted to secede if this happened.
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The Gettysburg Address
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Speech by Pres. Lincoln delivered in 1863 at dedication of Gettysburg National Cemetery
In his short speech, Lincoln said that the nation:
– was "conceived" in liberty but is being tested
– must keep fighting so deaths aren't in vain
– shall have "a new birth of freedom"
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Gettysburg address significance
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- his speech ignores the constitution and talks about the declaration of independence
-puts america on a new course to fight for freedom everywhere
-dedicated northern war effort to freedom
-2x more men fought for union then conferdate
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ku klux klan
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-formed in Tennessee by 6 confederate federals
-terrorist organization(targeted the ''freedman")
-fight against 3 federal amendments(13th,14th,15th)
-whore hoods to hide thier identity from the federal government
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Ku Klux Klan
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led by Nathaniel Forrest, ex-Confederate general, destroyed blackowned
buildings and killed blacks; caused Congress to give power to federal authorities
to stop this violence and protect civil rights of citizens in the South through Force Acts
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Ku Klux Klan
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Secret society organized in the south after the civil war to reassertion white supremacy by means of terrorism
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ku klux klan significance
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-hail bent on changing all amendments that benefited african americans
-made their lives a living hell
-their succes in holding back black success showed that white supremacy was not over w/ the ending of the civil war
-prior to civil war blacks were a profit(wuld not kill them) afte…
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Ku Klux Klan (second): Significance
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Endangered individual liberty.
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dred scott
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KIN 3305: HISTORY FINAL