AMH-4172 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Perpetual Union, Cornerstone Speech, Party System
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Id: the stage of the triangular trade in which millions of africans were shipped to the new world as part of the atlantic slave trade. Significance: helped bring slaves to america and expanded slavery. Id: children would inherit the freedom or slavery of the mother. Good business decision the slave owner would rape slave women in order to have her children born into slavery. Id: the act of a slave owner freeing his or her slaves. Significance: by the time of the civil war, every southern state had a law against manumission. Id: settled at the national convention, the compromise stated that slaves are 3/5th of a person. Id: spread slaves into deep south, wont be so populated, expand nation, stops the threat of massive revolt from slaves. Thomas jefferson and james madison believed this because white southerners were terrified (schizophrenic) of a slave uprising. Significance: caused andrew jackson to move indians out making room for the cotton kingdom .
