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16 Cards in this Set
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John Brown |
Led a rebellion against slavery by attacking a U.S. Army post along with armed slaves in Harper Ferry, Virginia. His rebellion failed.
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Uncle Tom's Cabin |
This book written by Harriet Beecher Stowe, made many people in the North sympathize for the slaves but people in the South claimed it was all lies. |
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Frederick Douglass |
Earned enough money to buy his freedom. He wrote any books and newspaper articles against slavery. He was friends with Lincoln. |
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Popular Sovereignty |
An idea that people who live in a place make decisions for themselves. |
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States' Rights |
The idea that states should make the final decision about ideas that affect them. |
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Sectionalism |
Loyalty to one part of the country. |
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Fugitive Slave Law |
Citizen of the North had to return run away slaves to the South or face fines or jail time. |
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Northern economy |
Commerical and industrial opportunities helped to develope larger cities and populations. |
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Southern Economy |
Agricultural was dependent on the slave labor system coming from large plantations. Fewer growth of cities and less industry. |
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Missouri Compromise |
1850 where California was admitted as a free state, Texas was allowed to be a slave state, and territories in the west opened up to determine issues of slavery. |
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Kansas Nebraska Act |
Gave popular sovereignty to Kansas and Nebraska and Kansas joined the Union as a free state. |
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Republican Party 1854 |
stop slavery in new lands, the south feared slavery would be abolished. Lincoln was first republican president.
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Bleeding Kansas |
Border ruffians voted illegally and armed gangs killed civilian. In 1854, abolitionist John Brown killed voters at Pottawatomie Creek voting for slavery. |
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Abraham Lincoln |
"A house divided against itself cannot stand...." meant that as the states sovereignty would separate in Congress, it wouldn't fall under this man's watch. |
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seceded |
Lincoln's 1860 election win was the final straw in where South Carolina _______________ (or left) from the United States. |
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Abolitionist |
A person who wanted to eliminate or "abolish" slavery. |
