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22 Cards in this Set
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This person started a newspaper called The Liberator. He believed that slavery should be ended.
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William Lloyd Garrison
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He. The Liberator.
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These sisters, daughters of a plantation owner, were among the first women to speak publicly for the abolitionsit cause.
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Sara and Angelina Grimke
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Sisters.
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This former slave became the most famous conductor on the Underground Railroad.
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Harriet Tubman
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Underground Railroad.
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These women organized the Seneca Falls Convention, the first convention to duscuss the rights of women.
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Lucretia Mott and Elizabeth Cady Stanton
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Seneca Falls.
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This former slave traveled the country giving speeches in support of abolition and women's rights.
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Sojourner Truth
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Traveled the country.
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Said slaves were property.
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Dred Scott Decision
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Used to refer to a state's leaving the union.
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Secede
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leaving
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The name of the first convention held to discuss the rights of women
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Seneca Falls Convention
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convention
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The name of the compromise that divided the united states into free states and slave states.
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Missouri Compromise
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compromise
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The name of the new country formed by the states that had seceded from the union.
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The Confederacy.
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The name of the compromise that allowed California to be admitted to the United States as a free state.
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Compromise of 1850
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Compromise
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Allowed Kansas and Nebraska to decide for themselves whether or not to allow slavery.
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Kansas-Nabraska Act
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Kansas. Nebraska.
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Some who wanted to end slavery in the united states.
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Abolitionist
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End
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The idea that each state should be allowed to make its own decisions about most issues.
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States' rights
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own decisions
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The system of secret routs that escaping slaves followed to freedom.
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Underground Railroad
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secret routes
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Required police in free states to help capture escaping slaves.
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Fugitive Slave Law
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police
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A negative opinion formed without proof
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Prejudice
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negative
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What was the most profitable southern crop?
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Cotton
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crop
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What was Fredrick Douglass best known for?
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speaking against slavery
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What was Harriet Tubman best known for?
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Running the Underground Railroad
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Southern states disliked Abraham Lincoln because he wanted what?
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No new slave states
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Which state was first to leave the Union in 1860?
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South Carolina
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