APUSH Unit 7 Study Terms Nat Turner: -Preacher and prophet who believed God had given him a message to rebel; August 22 1831 group of slaves in Southampton County‚ Virginia started a rebellion with Turner as the leader; went from plantation to plantation‚ after 48 hours white forces stopped the rebellion‚ executed many‚ Turner was last to be captured; So what? -Killed over sixty whites -Last slave rebellion of this kind during pre-Civil War period (armed resistence hadn’t ended) William
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“Nevada Executes Killer of Five : 25 View Death of Carroll E. Cole by Lethal Injection.” Los Angeles Times 7 Dec 1985: Web. Newton‚ Michael. The Encyclopedia of Serial Killers. New York: Infobase Publishing‚ 2006. Print. “Murder in Dallas.” truTV. Turner Entertainment Digital‚ n.d. Web. 7 Aug 2012 Philbin‚ Michael‚ and Tom Philbin. The Killer Book of Serial Killers. Naperville: Sourcebooks‚ Inc.‚ 2009. Print.
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Sectionalism: 1820-1850 Into what three regions was the US divided into during this time period? • North: Consisted of two main pieces o The Northeast: New England and Mid-Atlantic states o The Old Northwest: Ohio to Minnesota • South: States that permitted slavery • West: West of the Mississippi‚ eventually stretching to California What do you need to know about the industrial northeast? • Good transportation • Plentiful manufacturing labor from
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After 60 years of progress and expansion‚ the United States of America observed conflicts to their country. Since the foundation of the New World‚ compromises and negotiations kept the nation as one. However‚ until the mid-19th century‚ America attempted to solve their disputes through compromises‚ but due to their constant issues of slavery‚ compromises were no longer supportive. During 1820-1860‚ several reasons in the political views on slavery eventually led to the termination of compromise
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Jesse Evans LS-ENG 0810 17 October 2013 Summary Response Summary Response of Maya Angelou’s “The Graduation” In the essay “The Graduation” (McGraw-Hill 2003)‚ Maya Angelou tells the story of life in 1940s Stamps‚ Arkansas. She explains how it feels to be discriminated and thought of as less than equal. Angelou shows that with a strong will to overcome‚ it is more than possible to set aside disgusting racism and impersonal discrimination. Angelou delivers a very detailed‚ inspirational‚ and
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place the strongest reaction in the enlisting of blacks in the war itself. Batty in The Divided Union: The Story of the Great American War‚ 1861-65‚ concur with Foner and Mahoney about the importance of outright rebellion in their analysis of the Nat Turner Rebellion‚ which took place in 1831. This revolt demonstrated that not all slaves were willing to accept this "institution of slavery" passively. Foner and Mahoney note that the significance of this uprising is found in its aftermath because
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tons of cotton were being produced every year in the South. By 1860‚ it was a million tons. In the same period‚ 500‚000 slaves grew to 4 million. A system harried by slave rebellions and conspiracies (Gabriel Prosser‚ 1800; Denmark Vesey‚ 1822; Nat Turner‚ 1831) developed a network of controls in the southern states‚ hacked by the laws‚ courts‚ armed forces‚ and race prejudice of the nation’s political leaders. It would take either a full-scale slave rebellion or a full-scale war to end such a
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submitted to a “close” analysis shows the pain and thoughts of the author as she replays the feelings she had as she is reflexing and reminded of the conditions she and other Blacks were going through. “Then I wished that Gabriel Prosser and Nat Turner had killed all the whitefolks in their beds and that Abraham Lincoln had been assassinated before the signing of the Emancipation Proclamation‚ and that Harriet Tubman had been killed by that blow on her head and Christopher Columbus had drowned
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The African-American Story In 1619‚ twenty Africans were brought to Virginia and forced into slavery. By 1790‚ there were 700‚000 slaves in the United States and in the 1800s‚ African-American slaves were 40% of the Southern part of America (Brunner). Africans were not slaves before they were brought to America. They were kidnapped and shipped to the U.S. where were made into slaves. African-Americans have struggled for hundreds of years to gain equality. They staged boycotts‚ had marches‚ and
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to have anything to do with her family because they did not trust Robbie. In some ways‚ there is also the war inside of Briony’s head. She knows she has done something terribly wrong‚ but she is not strong enough to face the consequences of her confession until it is all but too late. She wants to perceive herself as a good person‚ so she becomes a
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