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15 Cards in this Set
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Sectionalism
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Is a loyalty to a section or part of the country rather than to the whole country
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David Walker
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They insisted that slavery should be abolished because it was wrong for one human being to own another one abolitionist a free African American named
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1846
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Congress voted to lower the tariff on imports which angered many northern
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1860
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The number of enslaved African Americans in the United States reached almost 4 million
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Slave codes
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Law to control the behavior of slaves, also made life difficult for them
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Nat turner
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To prevent enslave people from planning rebellions, slave owners tried keep slaves from gathering and meeting with one another. Still, rebellion did occur. One was planned and led by and in Virginia
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southampton country, Virginia
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N August 1831, Nate Turner and his followers killed about 60 whites in
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Joseph cinque
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He told Africans, we may as well die in trying to be free
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New Haven, Connecticut
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The United States Navy captured the amistad near Long Island, New York. The Africans were taken as prisoners to
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Underground Railroad
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Was an organized, secret system setup to help enslaved people scape from the south to freedom in the north or Canada
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Harriet Tubman
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The most famous conductor. In about 18 49, Tubman escaped from slavery herself and settled in Philadelphia. before the Civil War returned 19x more than 300 people, including her mother and father.
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Levi coffin
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What is a white teacher who had open the school for slaves in North Carolina. After slavery owners closed the school, coffin moved to Indiana there he became one of the leading, conducted, of the end underground railroad. He and his wife
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1831
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Nat Turner let a slave rebellion in Virginia
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1841
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Africans who had seized control of the slave ship gained their freedom in the Supreme Court
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1849
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Harriet Tubman escaped slavery and began leading people to freedom on the Underground Railroad
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