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What is Federalism?
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a political system in which a national government and constitutent units, such as state governments, share power.
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How does the 10th Amendment fit into all of this?
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--Part of Bill of Rights
--Powers not delegated in the Constitution, nor prohibited by the states, are reserved to the states. |
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Who was William Lloyd Garrison?
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--Radical White Abolitionist.
--Active in religious reform movement in Massachusetts --Editor of an antislavery paper in 1828 --Founder of The Liberator, his own paper --Sought emancipation |
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What was abolitionism?
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--The movement to abolish slavery
--Became the most important of a series of reform movements in America |
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Who was Nat Turner?
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Virginia Slave
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Why was Nat Turner famous?
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Believed he had a divine mission to rise up against whites.
August 1831 rose up against whites w/ 50 followers. |
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Who was Frederick Douglas?
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Former slave
Eloquent and outspoken against slavery Founder of The North Star, antislavery newspaper Joined Garrison, but later left his movement disagreed whether abolitionist should be nonviolence. |
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Why was he unique at that time for an African American?
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Taught himself to read and write.
Wrote the Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass about his life |
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Why did the addition of new states into the Union seem to worsen the division over slavery?
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South = plantation economy and enslaved /forced labor
--north=diversified industries and opposition to slavery. Division over whether new states would be pro or anti slavery |
