White Mans Burden

the idea that whites have to deal with blacks. whites have to deal with civilizing black too.

Scientific Racism

the belief that whites were superior because black according to science were apart of a different species making them inferior.

Giddy Multitude

a discontented class of indentured servants, slaves, and landless freemen both white and black, the Stephanos and the Trinculos as well as the Calibans of Virginia. I believe that this is the title because in this chapter we learned that slavery was not just a black issue.

Assimilation

people of different backgrounds come to see themselves as part of a larger national family

Manifest Destiny

the belief or doctrine, held chiefly in the middle and latter part of the 19th century, that it was the destiny of the U.S. to expand its territory over the whole of North America and to extend and enhance its political, social, and economic influences.