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23 Cards in this Set
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Abolition is… |
an end to slavery. |
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Sectionalism is… |
a devotion to the interests of one geographic region over the interests of the country as a whole. |
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William Lloyd Garrison was... |
William Lloyd Garrison was a prominent American abolitionist, journalist, suffragist, and social reformer. |
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Frederick Douglass was… |
Frederick Douglass was an African-American social reformer, orator, writer, and statesman. After escaping from slavery, he became a leader of the abolitionist movement, gaining note for his dazzling oratory and incisive antislavery writing. |
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Harriett Tubman was… |
Harriet Tubman was an African-American abolitionist, humanitarian, and Union spy during the American Civil War. |
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Sojourner Truth was… |
Sojourner Truth was an African-American abolitionist and women's rights activist. Truth was born into slavery in Swartekill, Ulster County, New York, but escaped with her infant daughter to freedom in 1826. |
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Harriett Beecher Stowe was… |
was an American abolitionist and author. Her novel Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852) was a depiction of life for African Americans under slavery. |
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American Anti-Slavery Society... |
an organization started by William Lloyd Garrison whose members wanted immediate emancipation and racial equality for African Americans. |
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Free-Soil party wanted… |
a political party formed in 1848 by antislavery northerners who left the Whig and Democratic parties because neither addressed the slavery issue. |
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The Underground Railroad was… |
a network of people who helped thousands of enslaved people escape to the North by providing transportation and hiding places. |
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popular sovereignty was… |
is the principle that the authority of the government is created and sustained by the consent of its people, through their elected representatives, who are the source of all political power. |
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Result of Harper’s Ferry… |
in an attempt to start an armed slave revolt and destroy the institution of slavery. |
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Compromise of 1850 created… |
Henry Clay’s proposed agreement that allowed California to enter the Union as a free state and divided the rest of the Mexican Cession into two territories where slavery would be decided by popular sovereignty |
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Fugitive Slave Act was… |
a law that made it a crime to help runaway slaves; allowed for the arrest of escaped slaves in areas where slavery was illegal, and required their return to slaveholders |
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Kansas-Nebraska Act resulted in… |
a law that allowed voters in Kansas and Nebraska to choose whether to allow slavery. |
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Missouri Compromise created… |
an agreement proposed by Henry Clay that allowed Missouri to enter the Union as a slave state and Maine to enter as a free state and outlawed slavery in any territories or states north of 36°30 ́ latitude |
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Dred Scott Supreme Court decision.. |
declared that all blacks slaves as well as free were not and could never become citizens of the United States. |
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Significance of the Election of 1860… |
1860 election determined whether Reconstruction would continue or (as it turned out) would be abolished. |
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Westward Expansion caused… |
Between 1803 and 1861 the people and the institutions of the United States expanded into what is now Oklahoma. |
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Economies of North and South were… |
The Northern colonies (or New England colonies) practiced subsistence farming.The Southern colonies had plantations. |
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Slavery was… |
Slavery refers to a condition in which individuals are owned by others, who control where they live and at what they work. Slavery had previously existed throughout history, in many times and most places. The ancient Greeks, the Romans, Incas and Aztecs all had slaves.
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Abraham Lincoln was… |
Abraham Lincoln was the 16th president of the United States, serving from March 1861 until his assassination in April 1865. |
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Manifest Destiny is… |
was the widely held belief in the United States that American settlers were destined to expand throughout the continent. |
