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20 Cards in this Set
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Number of deaths in the civil war |
620,000: 360,000 Union, 260,000 Confederates |
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Robert E. Lee |
General off the Confederate army. His personal loyalty was to Virginia |
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Jesus of Lübeck |
First black workers brought from Jamestown arrived in 1619 on this ship |
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Negro acts of 1740 |
Establish the basis for the slave codes |
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Eli Whitney |
Made the Cotton Gin, which cotton production very viable again, cotton became half of America's exports |
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Missouri Compromise |
1819 Missouri enter the Union as a slave state. Which unbalanced the number of free and slave states |
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William Lloyd Garrison |
Early abolitionist, publish the book "The Liberator" discussing the wrongs with slavery in the 1820s |
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Gag Order |
Banned all antislavery literature from the southern mail, which made it impossible for legislators to discuss the issue in the 1830s |
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Nat Turner |
Led a rebellion and killed 57 whites |
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John C. Calhoun |
Believed all blacks were inferior |
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Popular Sovereignty |
The inhabitants would vote if their territory would have slavery or not |
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Fugitive Slaves Act of 1850 |
Provided no safeguards for any blacks accused of having been a slave |
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Harriet Beecher Stowe |
Wrote "Uncle Tom's Cabin" |
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Border Ruffians |
Missourians who crossed over into Kansas to tilt the vote in favor of slavery |
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Bleeding Kansas |
A wave of violence that broke out across Kansas over slavery |
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Preston Brooks |
Beat Charles Sumner over the head with his cane |
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Fred Scott v. Sandford |
Filed a suit demanding his freedom, which resulted the Supreme Court declaring black are inferior |
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Date: first black slaves |
Introduce by the Spanish in 1502 |
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John Quincy Adams |
Pres. from 1825-1829, got the gag order repealed |
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Abraham Lincoln |
Won in 1860, he wasn't an abolitionist |
