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18 Cards in this Set
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North after Rev War
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Industrialized
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South after Rev War
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Agriculture-depended on slave labor
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Eli Whitney
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Cotton Gin
More cotton grown and supplied larger farms more slaves needed |
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Pleasant Family
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Freed slaves before it was legal
free and had own school by 1801 |
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Gabriel's Rebellion
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slave on Prosser plntation
trained blacksmith led largest slave uprising restrictions on slaves tightened after this |
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William Lloyd Garrison
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abolitionist
young white newspaper editor spread ideas to end slavery in The Liberator Newpaper |
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Frederick Douglas
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abolitionist
escaped from slavery spoke in north about the cruelty of slavery speeches encouraged others to abolish slavery Established North Star Newspaper that ran for 17 years |
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Fugitive Slave Law
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1850
made it illegal to help slaves escape required all to capture escaped slaves |
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Missouri Compromise of 1820
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maintain a balance between free and slave states
imaginary lkine on lousianna territory. all south were slave states all norht were free states except missouri southhampton county , va turner hid in woods for six weeks finally coiught and hanged in 1831 |
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Nat Turner
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abolitionist
led revolt against virginia plantation owners for two days he and other slaves went from farm to farm killing whites killed over 60 |
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Harriet Tubman
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aboliionist
underground railroad |
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Compromise of 1850
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calif free state
people in utah and new mexico could decide for themselves any slaves who escaped had to be returned compromise did not last long |
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Kansas-Nebraska Act
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1854
NO LONGER be an imaginary line Each new state would decide KAnsas-voting to decide-people against anf for slavery rushed to state to vote and fights broke out secession discussed |
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Dred Scott DEcision
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1857
Dred Scot said he should be free b/c his family moved to free state US supreme court decided that slaves were not citizens and slavery could NOT be foirbidden in US |
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John Brown
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abolitionist
led a raid on us armory at harper's ferry, virginia he planned to ake and store weapons for slave rebellion he was captured and hanged |
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After Abe Lincoln president
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1860
some southern states seceeded from union lincoln strongly oppposed slavery he vowed to leave slave states alone but new states would be free states SC seceeded as soon as he was elected by 1861 seven states seceeded |
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Battle at Fort Sumter
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President Lincoln promised not to let Union(Nrht) property be taken away from the confederates(SOuth). Civil war began when the confederates took over fort sumter, south carolins 1861
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West Virginia
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1863
split decsion in Va western counties wanted to join union by seceeding eastern did not west virginia was a state as of 1863 |
