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Bacon's Rebellion
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1676
Nathaniel Bacon - a white planter in upcountry Virginia. English guy with some money (not poor, not an indentured servant). Bacon wasn’t rich enough to be part of the gentry. This angered him. So he decided to organize a bunch of poor white guys to go fight the Indians “in Glorious defense of the country”. Really sending a direct message to the gentry - you better give me something, or I’m going to keep organizing and use this against you...and even incorporate blacks. The gentry see the threat, so they decide they must import black slaves and attempt to eliminate the “class warfare” and make it “racial warfare”. Significance: Basically saying that race is more important than class. An attempt to unite the poor white people with the gentry - give them hope that they could one day be a member and incorporated. |
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One Drop Rule
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the law that if you have any African ancestry at all (even if it's not visible), you are "Black".
De jure slavery - slavery by law - in contrast to the indentured servant, who is a de facto slave. Anti-miscegenation laws become the norm. Disarmed blacks. Made assemblies of blacks illegal. Different punishments for similar infractions based on race. |
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Naturalization Act of 1790
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An effort to define membership in the new club that is the US. Provided the first rules to be followed by the United States in the granting of national citizenship. Free White people who own property and are of “good moral character”. There are only about 4-5 major immigration acts (last was in 1965). This was the first.
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Market Revolution
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Began in 1793.
A drastic change in the American economy. People began working in factories, and the economy became based on manufacturing and trade. People in factories were paid by the hour instead of by their output. Increased industrialization. The advent of what we see today as Market Capitalism. Significant because it completely transformed the economy, and by taking workers out of the home and placing them in factories, where they worked for wages, it completely changed the social order. These changes are still felt today. |
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4 elements of Jim Crow:
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Violence (state sanctioned).
Segregation Economic marginalization (enforced poverty) Disfranchisement |
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Nat Turner
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In 1831, Nat Turner, a slave, escapes, assembles a band of 70 slaves, and starts a violent insurrection that lasted two days and left nearly 60 whites dead. He is eventually hunted down and he & his followers are all killed. Significant because it starts the whole Sambo thing. Now there is a real reason for stepping up security. Whites are terrified that blacks will end up taking arms against them. Whites worry that what happened in Haiti will happen to them. Slaves are not allowed to travel, read/write, communicate, etc. Roaming bands of vigilantes who will confront & capture slaves that are found out at dark. All this as a result of Nat Turner’s rebellion.
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Multiculturalism
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the doctrine that several different cultures can coexist peacefully and equitably in a single country.
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