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21 Cards in this Set
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Who thought that people should decide whether to be slave or free?
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Douglas
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The first women's rights convention was held at ________ ________, New York in 1848.
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Seneca Falls
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Who were the two sisters from South Carolina that left their plantation and went north to join the Quakers?
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Grimke sisters
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Name the first southern state that seceded.
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South Carolina
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The people that abolished slavery were called ________.
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Abolitionists
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Who was the famous abolitionist that escaped from her masters in 1849 and became a spy for the North during the Civil War?
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Harriet Tubman
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What did the South call their new country after 11 states seceded?
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Confederate States
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List 6 out of the 11 states that seceded.
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Texas
Alabama Georgia Mississippi Arkansas Tennessee |
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Who was remained neutral on the issue of slavery?
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Bell
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The _________ Slave Law forced Northerners to help slave owners catch their runaway slaves.
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Fugitive
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Who became the President of the South?
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Jefferson Davis
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Name the black Missouri slave that took his case to the Supreme Court and lost.
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Dred Scott
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When the people decided for themselves on any issue, it was called popular __________.
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sovereignty
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List 2 points of the Compromise of 1850
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1. California is a free state
2. End slave trade in Washington D.C. |
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Who wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin?
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Harriet Beecher Stowe
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List 3 out of the 4 slave states that did not secede.
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Kentucky
Maryland Delaware |
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Who ran against Abe Lincoln in the election of 1858 for the Illinois Senate Seat?
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Douglas
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Who was the violent abolitionist that murdered slave owners in Kansas and then tried to take over a U.S. arsenal at Harper's Ferry, Virginia?
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John Brown
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The ________-________ Act stated that the people of Kansas and Nebraska could decide for themselves if they wanted to be free or slave.
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Kansas-Nebraska
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Who thought that slavery should not be spread into the territories?
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Lincoln
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Who thought that slavery should be allowed to spread?
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Breckinridge
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