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Abolition is |
The movement to end slavery |
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Sectionalism is |
An intense devotion to ones section or Region to the the extent it harms the whole |
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William Lloyd Garrison was |
Published an antislavery newspaper "the liberator" beginning in 1831 in 1833 he also helped found the american Anti-Slavery Society |
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Fredrick Douglass was |
Was an escaped slave who gave regular antislavery lectures in 1841 |
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Harriet Tubman was |
A famous Underground Railroad conductor who "never lost a passenger" |
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Sojourner truth was |
Was a escaped female slave oh gave fiery speeches about women's rights and slavery |
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Harrier Beecher Stowe was |
An abolitionist who wrote uncle toms cabin a novel that hilighted the horrors of slavery |
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John brown tried |
To capture a federal armory to equip slaves with weapons so they could kill white plantation owners |
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American anti-slaver sociotey |
Was a group of abolitionists who opposed slavery and wanted immediate emancipation for slaves as well as racial equality |
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Free soil party wanted |
No slavery in new territories |
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The Underground Railroad was |
A system of trails and stations that helped slaves escape |
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Southern economic dependence on |
The north for industrial prducts |
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Popular soverginty was |
The right for a territory to chose whether the territory wants slavery or not |
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Result of harpers ferry |
John brown was arrested and hung for treason |
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Compromise of 1850 created |
Provisions California free state south gets upgraded fugitive slave act when broken gets the person 6 months in prison or a 1000 dollar fine |
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Fugitive slave act was |
an act that forced the return of runaway slaves in northern free states |
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Kansas Nebraska act was |
an act that allowed Kansas and Nebraska to become territories and let the people in those territories to decide if they wanted slavery or not |
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Missouri compromise created |
a line that above it slavery was not allowed but bellow is slavery is allowed in new territories it admitted Maine as a free state and Missouri as a slave state |
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Dred Scott court decision was |
that Dred Scott was not a citizen because he was black and thus was not allowed to sue |
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Significance of the election of 1850 |
the election of 1850 pushed south Carolina over the edge and they left the union and were followed by other states |
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Westward expansion caused |
dispute over wither or not states and territories should be free or slave |
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Economies of the north and south were |
very different and relied upon each other North: industrial South: agricultural |
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Slavery was |
a big dispute that tore our nation apart |
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Abraham Lincoln was |
The elected president in the election of 1850 who got the union through the civil war |
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Manifest destiney is |
The belief that it is the destiny of the united states to expand from sea to sea |
