Study Guide
Takaki, chapter 5
“No More Peck O’ Corn”
1. Industrial Revolution
2. Eli Whitney
3. Expansion of the “cotton kingdom”
4. “Necessary evil” to “positive good”
5. Paternalism, patriarchy and command
6. Christianity
7. Ideology of White supremacy
8. Exploitation of Black women and the “sorest spot” - Harriet Jacobs and Mary Chesnut
9. “Science” and Dr Samuel Morton
10. De facto segregation in the North
11. White terror
12. David Walker’s Appeal
13. Day to day resistance and the mask
14. Folk tales
15. Abolition and “moral suasion”
16. William Lloyd Garrison and John Brown
17. Black abolitionism
18. Nat Turner
19. Martin Delany
20. Frederick Douglass
21. The peculium, immigrants and division (e.g., Douglass in the Baltimore shipyards)
22. Divergent economies – North and South
23. Divergent ideologies – free labor and slavery
24. England, emancipation and the slave trade
25. The Civil War
26. Blacks in blue
27. Wartime reconstruction
28. Special Field Order #15
29. Economic independence – Forty acres and a mule and the labor theory of value
30. Radical Republicans
31. 13th – 14th and 15th amendments to the United States Constitution
32. Andrew Johnson
33. Black codes – “Nothing but freedom”
34. Freedman’s Bureau and contract labor
35. Sharecropping and tenancy
36. “debt peonage”
37. Jim Crow
38. Lynchings – Without Sanctuary
39. Booker T. Washington
40. Atlanta Compromise
41. Plessy v Ferguson (1896)
42. Poll taxes and literacy tests