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1) This man was an enslaved African American bought by an army doctor in Missouri. 2) His claim was that he should be free because he once lived in the North where he was free. |
Dred Scott |
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1) Chief Justice Roger B. Taney ruled on the case. 2) He ruled that Dred Scott was still an enslaved person and was not a citizen so he couldn't file a lawsuit. |
Dred Scott Case |
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1) Whigs, Democrats, and Free Soilers made up the republican party. 2) There purpose was to challenge the pro-slavery Whigs and Democrats to run in the election. |
Republican Party |
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1) He was born in the poor backcountry of Kentucky and moved to Indiana as a child, then later to Illinois. He was intelligent, ambitious, and a lawyer. He had little formal education but excellent political skills. 2) He wanted African Americans to be equal, it is wrong, and that slavery was the greatest crime ever committed. |
Abraham Lincoln |
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1) A storage place for weapons and ammunition 2) The people store their weapons in an arsenal. 3) Brown hoped to arm enslaved African Americans and start a revolt against slaveholders. |
Arsenal |
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1) A person who sacrifices his or her life for a principle or cause. 2) Martin Luther King Jr. 3) The South was afraid of John Brown becoming a martyr because |
Martyr |
