Events, Movements, and Concepts
Vocab Word
Definition
New England Social Order
Based on religious standing.
Puritans were intolerant of dissenters.
Stono Uprising
The most serious slave rebellion in the the colonial period which occurred in 1739 in South Carolina. 100 African Americans rose up, got weapons and killed several whites then tried to escape to S. Florida. The uprising was crushed and the participants executed. The main form of rebellion was running away, though there was no where to go.
Mercantilism
an economic system (Europe in 18th C) to increase a nation's wealth by government regulation of all of the nation's commercial interests
Enumerated Goods
The term for products, such as tobacco, that could be shipped only to England
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18 people were hanged as witches. Afterwards, most of the people involved admitted that the trials and executions had been a terrible mistake.
Leisler's Rebellion
1689 - When King James II was dethroned and replaced by King William of the Netherlands, the colonists of New York rebelled and made Jacob Leiser, a militia officer, governor of New York. Leisler was hanged for treason when royal authority was reinstated in 1691, but the representative assembly which he founded remained part of the government of New York.
Indentured Servants a poor person obligated to a fixed term of unpaid labor, often in exchange for a benefit such as transportation, protection, or training.
Williamsburg
the Virginia Colony was founded on May 14, 1607. It is commonly regarded as the first permanent English settlement in what is now the United States, following several earlier failed attempts. It was founded by Captain John Smith. It became the first capital of the Colony for 92 years, until 1699, when it was relocated to Williamsburg. (Jamestown virginia)
Olaudah
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The Chesapeake had a very high mortality rate for its settlers. Many who were apart of this colony were already indentured servants. This colony was not thriving population wise so the crops were the only thing they had going for them. They
How and why did the African American experience vary widely in the colonies?
What was the Stono Uprising? slave rebellion which occurred in 1739 in South Carolina. 100 African Americans rose up,led by Jemmy got weapons and killed several whites then tried to escape to S. Florida. Wanted freedom and liberty. The uprising was crushed and the participants executed with their heads displayed on stakes. Destroyed African American's ability to make money or have an education, harsher slave code, and a delay in slave trade
What was mercantilism?
An economic system that means more exports than imports, and gaining more gold and silver than other countries. Wealth measured in the amount of precious metal. Led to a lot of search for wealth and colonies. Most in the years of the 17th and 18th century. Most likely beyond
What were the Navigation Acts and what was their
The slaves used rebellions or anti-slavery movements as a form of resistance against slavery. However, the result of slave insurrections was mass executions, and many of them avoided these rebellions for the fear of being executed. The famous insurrections in the American history were the Gabriel Prossey's conspiracy in 1800, Nat Turner's Rebellion in 1831, and the Stono Rebellion of 1739. Among these rebellions, only the Nat
Nat Turner’s Rebellion Was one of America's biggest and deadliest slavery uprisings in history. It took place in Southampton County, Virginia in August of 1831. Nat Turner (the leader) thought he was God's messenger to save his people, so he mobilized many to join him and rebel against the unsuspecting slave owners. Over the 4 topics that we covered the one most relevant to slavery would be Nat Turner's Rebellion because it \was one of the biggest and deadliest slavery uprisings in history and the result of this caused the cycle of slavery to have devastating effects on slaves. The effects the rebellion prohibited African American slaves to be taught to read and write. As a consequence of the rebellion the laws were changed to prevent African
1859 was an endeavor to begin an equipped slave revolt by grabbing a United States Arsenal at Harpers Ferry in Virginia in 1859. Chestnut's assault was vanquished by a unit of U.S. Marines drove by Col. Robert E. Lee. He initially asked Harriet Tubman and Frederick Douglass to go along with him when he assaulted the ordnance, however ailment kept Tubman from going along with him and Douglass trusted his arrangement would fizzle and did not go along with him
In the 18th century of colonial America, slavery was an enormous impact on the Southern economy and continued to grow exponentially. It helped with a widespread growth of the southern, agricultural economy. In doing so, slaves were recognized as property and treated as such: through prejudice and misappropriation. Because of this practice of disrespect, tensions heightened and slave began to voice their aggravation that freedom was a must. The most violent and bold movements included slave rebellions. Slave rebellions, such as ones executed by Nat Turner, Gabriel Prosser, and Denmark Vesey, were effective in the nature of showing plantation owners and the United States, in general, that the abolition for slavery was a necessity through the myriad of occurrences. Nat Turner, Gabriel Prosser, and Denmark Vesey were all very different in their own way, but synonymous in the impact they produced in 18th and 19th century history.
The book Fires of Jubilee: Nat Turner’s Fierce Rebellion (New York, Ny: Harper Perennial, 1990) by Stephen B. Oates portrays a slave rebellion and uprising in the 1830’s. Oates has written many books on American history and his style of writing makes his books readable and popular. He has become a unique storyteller of his time, in his book he tells of a transformation that changed the city of South Hampton, Virginia forever, an unspeakable action heard throughout the whole nation and insurrection. What is an insurrection? It is a rebellion, revolution, mutiny and uprising, a concept that has never lost hope in African-American slaves.
Denmark Vesey was an African-American leader of an attempted slave insurrection in 1822. After many years as a slave, he won $1,500 in a lottery. Vesey used this money to purchase his freedom. He used his intelligence, energy, and luck to acquire considerable wealth and influence in South Carolina. All of these factors helped lead to the largest attempted slave revolt in American history. David Robertson’s book Denmark Vesey outlines his life as a slave, to his freedom, to his execution, and the consequences of the aftermath.
According to Shaw in “Spartacus and The Slave Wars”, prisoners of war enslaved at the end of the Second Punic War rebelled in 198 B.C. This slave uprising in central Italy is the first reliable report of one, although it was surely not the first actual slave uprising. There were other slave uprisings in the 180s. These were small; however, there were 3 major slave revolts in Italy between 140 and 70 B.C. These 3 uprisings are called the Servile Wars, since the Latin for 'slave' is servus. However these 3 slave wars did not all end in victory. As a matter of fact, the 3 slave revolts failed, ending in murder of the leaders. The reason why the slaves were defeated in the end was basically due to the fact that there was no ultimate goal. They
The Stono Rebellion was at the time the biggest slave rebellion to ever take place in the American colonies. It came at a time when owning slaves was one of the accepted things in the colonies and the colonists depended on the labor the slaves were doing. Some colonies entire economies depended on it. In South Carolina, there were more slaves than free men in the colony. This was because of the African slave trade.
The only uprising with the greatest number of whites killed was the Nat Turner’s Rebellion. Nat Turner was a religious and educated man who was convinced by Christ that his mission was to lead a rebellion. Turner decided to gather others for the rebellion and then killed his owner and family. He and his men marched from plantation to plantation gathering other slaves and slaughtering
Beginning on September 9,1739, the Stono Rebellion was one of the largest slave uprisings in colonial America (Stono's Rebellion). It was the first known slave revolt in the continent of North America in 1739 (Slave Rebellions). Though it was one of the largest slave revolts in colonial America, it was still unsuccessful, but because it was so large, it had several effect on America and its government.
Slavery in North America began with the Portuguese in the seventeenth century. Increasing and spreading significantly, slavery eventually became an economic staple in the southern region of America. Although widespread and popular, rebellion against this human bondage was inevitable. Slaves in the south rebelled and revolted against their owners many times; however, these efforts were often suppressed. Although most revolts ended in failure, some did impact the feelings of slavemasters, and unfortunately, worsened their living conditions. Throughout American history, the most notable and significant slave rebellions in the south were The Stono Rebellion, The Vesey Rebellion, and The Nat Turner
Slave revolts normally happened outside of the plantation system and in large cities were the slaves were able to act more freely. It’s estimated there were at least 250 slave rebellions in America before slavery was abolished in 1865.Most tales of what happened during those rebellions could be bias seen as they were written by whites rather than by the slaves that started the revolt. Since African American slaves accounted for more than one-third of the population in the 18th century, slave rebellions were a large source of fear for white Americans in the south.
One well know rebellion is the Tacky’s revolt. In May 1760, a slave overseer by the name of Tacky led a group of African slaves in a revolt to take over plantations while killing the slave owners. Tacky and the slaves marched to a shop in Fort Haldane where they killed the shopkeeper and stole barrels of gunpowder and firearms. That night hundreds of other slaves joined Tacky and his followers. There was a large celebration for their success in gaining the weapons the need. A group of Obeahman (witch doctor) formed a circle around the camp, throwing powder at the men claiming that it would protect them from injury and death and proclaiming that a Obeahman cannot be killed. The slave’s confidence was now very high. The British troops along with Maroons who were bounded by the treaty to stop the rebellion soon showed up. When the troop hear of the Obeahman’s claimed immortality they captured, killed and hung his head on a stick for all to see. The rebels saw this and most of the slaves lost their previous confidence and returned to their plantations while Tacky and a few men ran into the woods. They were chased by the Maroons, Tacky was shot and then his head was cut off for proof of the defeat. The rest of his men were found in a cave near Tacky Falls, they committed suicide instead of returning to
On September 1739, a group of South Carolina slaves, most of them recently arrived from kongo where some had appeared to be soldiers, where they had taken a store containing which had a number of weapons at the town of stono. They would use “beating drums to attract followers, the armed band marched southward toward Florida, burning houses and barns, killing whites they encountered, and shouting liberty.”(144). This rebellion took the lives of more than two dozen whites and as many as 200 slaves. Many slaves managed to reach Florida, where in 1740 they were armed by the Spanish to help repel an attack on St. Augustine by a force from
Since cotton farms were running effectively and, to some degree, slaves respected their masters, there were hardly any large riots. Evidently, due to the lack of major riots in the south compared to other areas that held slaves, it’s fair to argue that lives of average slaves were okay at times. In Professor Barton’s lecture, he remarked that in the Caribbean, where there were massive amounts of slaves, there were huge riots. For example, in Haiti, the entirety of the French colony was overthrown by