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Civil war & slavery
Civil war and slavery study stack
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Abolitionist | a person who want to completely get rid of slavery they thought slavery was sinful and wrong, included Eilliam Lloyd Garrison. |
| emancipate | to free slaves from bondange or set free |
| Free Soil Party | political party that wanted to stop the spread of slavery to new territories |
| underground railroad | secret network that helped thousands of slaves go north to free states and canada in search of freedom |
| Uncle tom's cabin | book that showed the north how terrible slavery was, written by harritt beacher stow |
| segregation | term that means to separate because of race or color |
| cecede | means to loeave the union as the south will do |
| states rights | term that means states should have the final power not federal government |
| popular sovereignty | residentce of the territories could decide for themselves if they want slavery or not wwhich made abolitionists and free soilers against it because they didn't want slavery at all. |
| frederick douglas | runaway slave who became an abolitionist wrote a book and spoke very well |
| Kansas-nebraska act of 1854 | Law - said Kansas and Nebraska can vote for or against slavery. |
| Bleeding Kansas | Bleeding Kansas was the fight between pro- slavery and anti- slavery people in Kansas John Brrown led a massacre at potawattomie creek (killing 5 pro slavery people) |
| David Walker and/or "walker's appeal" | panthlet that said that blacks should revolt and kill their masters |
| Henry Ward Beecher | Abolitionists preecher who sent guns to anti-slavery people in Kanasas, disquised as boxes of bibles |
| Missouri Comprimise | no slavery above the 36-30 line except in missouri Maine is a free state |
| Nat turner | he led a slave rebellion where sixty whites and two hundred blacks were killed |
| John Brown | he led a raid a Harpers Ferry, Virgina, arsenal, to arm slaves; became an abolitionists hero but was sentenced to death; was unsecesssfuls in arming all the slaves. |
| Abraham Lincoln | after he was elected in 1860 many Southern states started to leave the US, so was against slavery spreading to the new territories |
| Dred Scott | The supreme court said he was still a slave even though he lived in a northern state made it hard for court/cingress to pass laws to restrict or outlaw slavery. |
| Kansas/Nebraska Act | This 1854 laww that started "bleeding Kansas" said settlers can decide the issue of slavery |
| Comprimise of 1850 | This agreement had four parts including a new fugitive slave act and a free California and no slave trade in Washington D.C. |
| South | before the cilvil war felt overpowered by the north and slavery should be expanded. |
| Harriett Tubman | african americabn lady who helped more than 3300 slaves escape on the underground railroad |
| Levi Coffin | he was an important white Quaker organizer of the Underground Railroad (not a slave; not African-American) |
| Cotton is King | this means that cotton was important tot the economy of the United States |
| Fugitive Slave Act | runaway slaves had to be rreturned to the south, southerners can go get their runaway slaves and those wwho helped runaways could pay fines or go to jail. |
| Cotton Gin | led to increased demand for slaves in the south during the early 1800's |
| Pottawattamie Creek(Kansas) | place wwheree John Brown held s battle against slavery |
| Border States | Could decide wheater to join the North or the South(to decide whether they want slavery or no slavery) included Missouri, Kentucky, and Maryland |
| South Carolina Secession | event that began the Civil War |
| 1858 Lincoln Debates | Lincoln lost but it was important because he became well known an paved the way for his 1860 election |
| South Carolina | seceded after Lincoln was elected |
| Gulf States | also cakked the ddeeo south thad more slaves because they had a better climate to ggrow crops and more coton and tobacco plantations |
| South Carolina | seceded after Lincoln was elected |
| John Calhoun | would most likely have said slavery is a positive good for slaves and states should be able to seceed from the union |
| Gulf States | also cakked the ddeeo south thad more slaves because they had a better climate to ggrow crops and more coton and tobacco plantations |
| Cotton Production | before the war it waas about 50% of the edonomy, was highest in the gulf states and was mostly picked by slaves. |
| John Calhoun | would most likely have said slavery is a positive good for slaves and states should be able to seceed from the union |
| Jefferson Davis | president of the confederate states in favor of slavery |
| slavery | before the war slaves were disiplined with whips and worked for long hours without pay and were completed exausted. There were more than 4 million slaves in the whole United States in 1860 |
| David Walker | he wrote a pnthlet or an appeal for slaves to be freed from their masters |
| Stephen Douglas | Senator who was for popular sovernity in the territories campained against Lincoln in the famous Lincoln Douglas debates for senator |
| Sectionalism | when sections of the country separate from each other with an issue like slavery. |
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