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11 Cards in this Set
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Abolition- the legal prohibition and ending of slavery |
Sectionalism- excessive regard for sectional or local interests |
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William Lloyd Garrison- the leader in the abolition movement |
Fredrick Douglass- ex-slave, abolitionist, orator |
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Harriet Tubman- abolitionist, ex-slave, conductor of the underground railroad |
Sojourner Truth- abolitionist, orator, woman's-right advocate, born a slave |
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Harriet Beecher Stowe- author of "Uncle Tom's Cabin." |
John Brown- abolitionist, leader of attack at Harpers Ferry, where he was captured, and hanged for treason |
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American Anti-Slavery society- a society, created in 1833, led by William L. Garrison to abolish slavery |
Free-Soil Party- a former U.S. political party, 1848–1856 that opposed the extension of slavery in the Territories not yet admitted to statehood |
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The Underground Railroad- a system for helping fugitive slaves escape to Canada or other places of safety |
Manifest Destiny- the belief held chiefly in the middle and latter part of the1800's it was the destiny of the U.S. to expand its territory over the entire U.S. and to expand and enhance its political, social, and economic influences |
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Popular Sovereignty- doctrine that sovereign power is vested in people and that those chosen to govern, as trustees of such power, must exercise it in conformity with general will |
Result of Harpers Ferry- held down by local military of the17th, Brown took refuge in the arsenal’s engine house, this sanctuary from the fire storm didn't go well in the late afternoon U.S. Marines of Colonel Robert E. Lee arrived,stormed the engine house, killing many of Brown's men |
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compromise of 1850- California turns into a free state, while the south gets their slaves back if escape to the north, but doesn't work out. |
Fugitive Slave Act- A law passed as part of the Compromise of 1850, that provided southern slaveholders with legal weapons to capture slaves who escaped to free states |
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Kansas-Nebraska Act- act of Congress in 1854 annulling the Missouri Compromise, providing the organization of territories from Kansas and Nebraska |
Missouri Compromise- a act of Congress in 1820 by Missouri admitted being a slave state, and as a Maine as a free state |
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Dred Scott Decision- a black slave who sued for freedom in 1857 denied by the U.S. Supreme Court, by explaining that a slave was not a citizen in the U.S and was not able to sue in a federal court. |
Election of 1860- elections for presidents in the northern and southern countries |
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Westward Expansion- everyone to move to the usa |
Slavery- African Americans working for southerners to get rich. |
