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18 Cards in this Set
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Fugitive Slave Act (1850)
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Required all citizens to catch runaway slaves. Citizens found helping fugitives would be fined $1000. Northerners resented the act and many chose not to follow it. Slave catchers would kid-nap free black men and sell them into slavery.
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Sectionalism
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loyalty to ones section/state rather then to the nation as a whole. This is one of the reasons the south suceded.
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Uncle Toms Cabin/ Harriet Beecher Stowe
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Harriet was greatly affected by slavery. She wrote a book about a slave who was beat to death. Some people finally began to see slavery as a human conflict. Southerners were greatly offended and swore it was all false information.
The book itself was very bias and made it seem that all slave owners were horrible people. However many people treated their slaves like family. The book caused many more problems they eventually indirectly led to the Civil War |
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Dred Scott Case/Outcome
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Scott was a slave whose owner lived in two different places in which slavery was illegal. He sued for his freedom and the supreme court said he could not sue because he was not a citizen and therefore could not sue. Slaves were considered property and property was protected under the constitution.
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Lincoln/ Douglas debates *outcome
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They were both running for a spot in congress. Douglas won but Lincoln's speeches made him very POPULAR. Two years later Lincoln won the presidential election against Douglas. The South felt like Congress would now be completely against them.
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Compromise of 1850
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Created by Henry Clay. California enters Union as free state. New Mexico would be divided into New Mexico and Utah. Popular Sovereignty would determine slavey issue. Slave trade in Washington DC would be abolished. Fugitive slave law.
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Popular Sovereignty
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The right that each territory could decide for itself weather or not to allow slavery. (Kansas, Nebraska, South Carolina)
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The Wilmount Proviso
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Banned slavery in the West. The South felt threatened.
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Kansas-Nebraska Act
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Created by Stephen Douglas. Allowed Kansas and Nebraska to vote on weather or not to practice slavery.
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John brown
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Raided an area in Harpersfield Virginian in an attempt to lead a slave revolt. his sons were all killed and he was executed. The North was sad a hero died. The south was happy a murder was killed.
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Abolitionist
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People who were against slavery.
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Underground Railroad
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Routes slaves could take to get to freedom in the north. Quaker men helped them by giving them rides in boats and wagons. Harriet Tubman was an important aspect to this.
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Election of Lincoln
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The last straw for the South which led them to secede. They felt Congress would be against them.
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Fort Sumter
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The first battle of the Civil War. Confederate troops fired first.
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Outcome of Cotton Gin
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North began to depend on industry. South used slaves to get raw materials.
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States Rights
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South felt their rights were being violated.
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Missouri Compromise
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An imaginary line at 36-30'N latitude would divide the Louisiana Purchase into free and slave territories.
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Bleeding Kansas
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People flooded to Kansas to try and keep the majority of the population pro or anti slavery. Only 3/39 representatives were anti-slavery. They demanded a revote
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