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Which Northern abolitionist wrote the anti-slavery book 'Uncle Tom's Cabin'?
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Harriet Beecher Stowe
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What class period did these flashcards?
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Period 3
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What does secede mean?
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Secede means to withdraw from membership in a group.
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What is guerrilla warfare?
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A soldier who uses hit-and-run tactics.
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What is a fugitive?
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A fugitive is a runaway. Fugitive slaves during and before the civil war were enforced by the Fugitive Slave Law of 1850.
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What does repeal mean?
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To undo; usually a law.
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What is a Civil War.
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A Civil War is a war between people of the same country.
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Define popular sovereignty.
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It is an idea that the people hold the final authority in goverment, allowing each territory to decide whether to allow slavery or not
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How did the Kansas-Nebraska act decide slavery in the west?
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Divided Nebraska Territory into Kansas and Nebraska territory. The settlers of each territory would decide the issue of slavery by popular sovereignt
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What is Sectionalism?
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Loyalty to a state or section rather then to the country as a whole country.
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A border ruffian was...
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...a pro slavery settler that rode accross the Kansas-Missouri border to vote for slavery.
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Free Soil Party
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Antislavery members from both parties met in Buffalo and founded it. There main goal was to keep slavery out of the western territoies.
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What are the five Border States?
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Texas, Arkansas, Tennessee,North Carolina, and Virginia
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What is the Republican party?
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A group of people who's goal was to keep slavery from spreading.
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Who was John Brown?
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John Brown was an abolitionist who killed many pro slavery men for killing abolitionists.
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Who is Dred Scott and what did he do to impact the Civil War?
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Dred Scott was a former slave who filed a lawsuit after his master died declaring that he was now a free man.
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Why was it called Bleeding Kansas
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it was called this because since popular sovereignty if ne side lost they would go out an kill people
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