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30 Cards in this Set
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What invention did Eli Whitney invent?
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Cottin Gin
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What person managed a plantation?
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Overseer
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What did the invention of the cotton gin increase and why?
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slavery b/c there was more work to be done
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Who was the author of "Uncle Tom's Cabin"?
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Harriet Beecher Stowe
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Who was the conductor of the undergroung railroad?
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Harriet Tubman
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Sectionalism
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layolty to your area
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Popular Sovereignty
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let the people decide for themselves
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Who wanted to start a slave rebellion @ Harper's Ferry?
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John Brown
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Missouri Comprimise
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deals w/ the Lousiania Territory, above the 36-30 line are free states, below the line are slave states
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Abolitionist
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people against slavery
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Who was the presidnet of Confederate states?
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Jefferson Davis
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What was anothr name for a group who terrorized Blacks?
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Ku Klux Klan
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The _________ was made of:
Poor whites Small Farmers Cottonocracy Slaves |
South
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Union Soldiers
(north) |
yankees
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Confederate Soliders
(south) |
Rebels
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Who was the President during the Civil war?
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Abraham Lincoln
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Who debated Abe Lincoln for senate seat?
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Stephen Douglas
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The cotton gin increased/decreased the rate at which slaves could clean cotton
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increased
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Who was an ex-slave who spoke out against slavery?
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John Brown
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Who was declared property and not a citizen. He was sued for freedom.
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Dred Scott
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What does the cotton gin do for the soil?
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The cotton gin ruines the soil
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Kansas- Nebraska Act
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Divided the Nebraska territory into 2 states, Nebraska and Kansas- Popular Soveregnty
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Slave codes
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different laws that would keep slaves from trying to run away
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Triangle Trade
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more influinsion- the middle passage referred to the route which the slaves where on the boat
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Radical Republicans
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Very Anti-Salvery
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Fredrick Douglas
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Escape slave who was self educated, and an abolishonist speaker
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Kunta Kinte
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African teenager who was caught and sold to into the life of a slave
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Robert E. Lee
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-Southern general who almost led the weaker south to victory
-surrendered to Grant |
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Abraham Lincoln
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-helped reunite the nation and abolish slavery
-president during the Civil War |
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Stephen Douglas
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-Debated Lincoln for the senate prior to the Civil War, even though Douglas won lincoln became president
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