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23 Cards in this Set
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What continent is India located? What empire ruled there before India gained independence in 1947?
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Asia;
England |
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the speech given by President Lincoln that called for freedom for all slaves
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the Emancipation Proclamation
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an Indian leader who believed in nonviolence and helped bring freedom to India
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Mohandas Gandhi
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a former slave who became a famous speaker and writer about slavery
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Frederick Douglass
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On what continent is India located? What empire ruled there before India gained independence in 1947?
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Asia;
England |
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wrote the Declaration of Independence
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Thomas Jefferson
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a former slave who helped other slaves escape using the Underground Railroad
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Harriet Tubman
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made the laws for the colonists
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House of Burgesses
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a leader in the civil rights movement
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Martin Luther King, Jr.
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led the South in the Civil War
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Robert E. Lee
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governed a Cherokee village
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council
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led the North in the Civil War
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Ulysses S. Grant
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the separation of people by law because of their race or religion
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segregation
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the path Cherokee took while leaving the southeast; 4,000-5,000 people died in the journey
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Trail of Tears
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the states in the North were called this
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Union
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the statement of freedom by the colonists that was adopted on July 4, 1776
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Declaration of Independence
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Why was the Civil War fought?
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over slavery
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wrote the Cherokee alphabet
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Sequoyah
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the states in the South were called this
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Confederacy
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the end of slavery
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abolition
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the colonial capital of Virginia
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Williamsburg
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escape routes used to free the slaves
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the Underground Railroad
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it was about equal rights for everyone
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the civil rights movement
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