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25 Cards in this Set
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Abolition is |
the legal prohibition and ending of slavery. |
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Sectionalism is |
excessive regard for sectional or local interest |
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William Lloyd Garrison was |
leader in the abolition movement |
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Fredrick Douglas was |
former slave who became one of the great American anti-slave leader |
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Harriett Tubman was |
escaped slave and leader of the Underground Railroad |
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Sojourner Truth was |
US abolitionist, orator, slave and woman's right advocate |
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Harriett Beecher Stowe was |
an American reformer and writer who's novel "Uncle Toms Cabin" is a classic |
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John Brown tried |
AKA: Old Brown Osawatomie for treason and hanged |
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American Anti-Slavery Society |
a society led by William Lloyd Garrison, to abolish slavery |
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Free-Soil party wanted |
to stop the expansion of slavery into new states |
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The Underground Railroad was |
a railroad running through a continuous tunnel, as under city streets |
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Southern economic dependence on |
slavery |
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Manifest Destiny is |
the destiny of the U.S. to expand its territory over the whole of North America and to extend and enhance its political, social, and economic influences |
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popular sovereignty was |
a doctrine, held chiefly bythe opponents of the abolitionists |
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Result of Harper's Ferry |
several battles |
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Compromise of 1850 created |
the Civil War |
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Fugitive Slave Act was |
a law passed as part of the Compromise of 1850, which provided southern slaveholders with legal weapons to capture slaves who had escaped to the free states |
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Kansas-Nebraska Act resulted in |
permitting these territories self-determination on the question of slavery |
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Missouri Compromise created |
A settlement of a dispute between slave and free states |
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Dred Scott Supreme Court decision |
found that as a slave, he was a piece of property and had no legal rights |
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Significance of the Election of 1860 |
the start of ending slavery |
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Westward Expansion caused |
no more slavery |
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Economies of North and South were |
struggling after the civil war |
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Slavery was |
bondage |
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Abraham Lincoln was |
the 16th President of the US who was against slavery |
