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African American History 7, 10-11
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04/29/2012

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Who is Richard Allen?
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was a minister, educator and writer, and the founder in 1816 of the African Methodist Episcopal (AME), the first independent black denomination in the United States.
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Who is Janera Lee?
Definition
the first woman authorized to preach by Richard Allen, founder of the African Methodist Episcopal Church in 1819.
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Who is James Forton
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A successful African-American businessman that with William Lloyd Garrison and Robert Purvis form the American Anti-Slavery Society.
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Denmark Vesey
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An African Carribean that planned the biggest African-American revolt in history.
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Nat Turner
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was an American slave who led a slave rebellion in Virginia on August 21, 1831 that resulted in 60 white deaths and at least 100 black deaths,[2] the largest number of fatalities to occur in one uprising prior to the American Civil War in the southern United States.
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Creolization
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As a result of colonization there was a mixture between people of indigenous, African, and European decent, which became to be understood as Creolization
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Miscegenation
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The term miscegenation has been used since the 19th century to refer to interracial marriage and interracial sex,[1] and more generally to the process of racial admixture, which has taken place since ancient history.
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Fictive kinship relationships
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individuals that are unrelated by either birth or marriage, who have an emotionally significant relationship with another individual that would take on the characteristics of a family relationship.
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Kinship
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Relationship by biological or genetic means
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Kinfolk
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same of Fictive kinship relationships, real only by emotional attachment.
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Ring Shout
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ecstatic, transcendent religious ritual, first practiced by African slaves in the West Indies and the United States, in which worshipers move in a circle while shuffling and stomping their feet and clapping their hands.
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Indigenous
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Practices or habits related to the origin of a people's traditional culture
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Great Awakening
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turning point of AA religion and it was a mid 18th century religious revival.
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Creole and Pidgin languages
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Creole- Mixture of different languages
Pidgin- unstructured language
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Call and Response
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Musician leads with call; then others responded
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Goldbricking
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slave rebellion by sabotaging equipment, to escape, and rebel.
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Outliers
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slaves and free blacks?
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"Appropriating food"
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Slaves stealing much needed food for survival
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Maroons
Definition
Escaped slaves that established communities located with the Spanish in Florida. Also to be noted is the Great Dismal Swamp.
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What is the Stono Rebellion?
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as a slave rebellion that commenced on 9 September 1739, in the colony of South Carolina. It was the largest slave uprising in the British mainland colonies prior to the American Revolution, in which They recruited nearly 60 other slaves and killed 22–25 whites before being intercepted by the South Carolina militia near the Edisto River. In that battle, 20 whites and 44 slaves were killed, and the rebellion was largely suppressed.
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Eli Whitney
Definition
inventor of the cotton gin
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Cotton Gin
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A device that radically transformed the cotton crop and america. Moved the natives out of their land from expansion.
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Trail of Tears
Definition
forced relocation and movement of Native American nations from southeastern parts of the United States following the Indian Removal Act of 1830.
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Five Civilized Tribes
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What made them civilized was the simple fact that they owned slaves, and the tribes were Cherokee, Choctaw, Creek, Seminole, and Chicksaw.
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Autonomy
Definition
In relation to black history, allowed machines to perform work without the slave not actually being there.
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Task System
Definition
s a reference within slavery to a division of labor established on the plantation, slaves liked it because they did their job, and then got free time.
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Staple Crop
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that is eaten regularly and in such quantities that it constitutes a dominant portion of a diet, and that supplies a high proportion of energy and nutrient needs.
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Hire their time
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Worked for an company to obtain their freedom.
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Union
Definition
The side that fought for the the federal republic.
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Confederacy
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The fight in the civil war that fought for states rights.
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White Man’s War
Definition
Blacks definition for the civil war since the white man was fighting for.
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Abolitionist
Definition
whites that fought against slavery
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Ft. Sumter
Definition
The fort is best known as the site upon which the shots initiating the American Civil War were fired, at the Battle of Fort Sumter.
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Contraband
Definition
An illegal substance that is sold and produced illegaly
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First Confiscation Act
Definition
The Confiscation Act of 1861 was an act of Congress during the early months of the American Civil War permitting the confiscation of any of property, including slaves, being used to support the Confederate insurrection.
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Preliminary Emancipation Proclamation
Definition
Also called compensated emancipation, is when the government took the slaves away and paid the owners of the slaves.
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Emancipation Proclamation
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The Emancipation Proclamation is an executive order issued by United States President Abraham Lincoln on January 1, 1863, during the American Civil War using his war powers. It proclaimed the freedom of slaves in the ten states then in rebellion, thus applying to 3.1 million of the 4 million slaves in the U.S. at that time.
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Reconstruction
Definition
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Radical Republicans
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The Radical Republicans were a loose faction of American politicians within the Republican Party from about 1854 (before the American Civil War) until the end of Reconstruction in 1877. They called themselves "radicals" and were opposed during the war by moderates and conservative factions led by Abraham Lincoln and after the war by self-described "conservatives" (in the South) and "Liberals" (in the North). Radicals strongly opposed slavery during the war and after the war distrusted ex-Confederates, demanding harsh policies for Reconstruction.
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Thirteenth Amendment
Definition
The Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution officially outlaws slavery and involuntary servitude, except as punishment for a crime.
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Fourteenth Amendment
Definition
In a nutshell, gave blacks rights that a citizen would have.
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Andrew Johnson
Definition
Johnson's reconstruction policies failed to promote the rights of the Freedmen, and he came under vigorous political attack from Republicans, ending in his impeachment by the U.S. House of Representatives; he was acquitted by the U.S. Senate.
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Fifteenth Amendment
Definition
The Fifteenth Amendment (Amendment XV) to the United States Constitution prohibits each government in the United States from denying a citizen the right to vote based on that citizen's "race, color, or previous condition of servitude"
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Hiram Revels
Definition
was the first African American to serve in the United States Senate.
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Ku Klux Klan
Definition
White terroroist group that supported homophobic, anti semetic, black hating, and white power.
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Enforcement Acts
Definition
ur acts passed from 1870 to 1871 that were meant to protect rights of all blacks following ratification of the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution as part of Reconstruction, which entitled freedmen and all others born in the United States to full citizenship.
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Exodusters
Definition
is a name given to African Americans who fled the Southern United States for Kansas in 1879 and 1880. After the end of Reconstruction, racial oppression and rumors of the reinstitution of slavery led many freedmen to seek a new place to live.
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