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Civil war
Question | Answer |
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Slave codes | laws that limit slave rights, give power to master of slaves to give harsh punishments and to control their slave in any way they want |
Denmark Vessey | a male slave, he bough his own freedom winning the lottery. He held meetings to plan violent slave protest in SC. He and 34 others were hung for this conspiracy |
Tariff of Abominations | tax on high imported duties for goods bough by Southern planters |
Fredrick Douglass | an escaped slave and abolitionist. His masters wife taught him how to read and write |
Classes of the Antebellum Soth | Planters, Yeoman farmers, poor whites, slaves |
Underground Railroad | a method used to help move slave from the south to free territory in the US and Canada |
Harriet Tubman | a runaway free slave that helped move over 300 people using the Underground Railroad |
Missouri Compromise | |
Compromise of 1850 | |
John C Calhoun | |
Nat Turner | |
Henry Clay | |
Wester-Hayne debate | |
Dred Scott vs. Standford | |
William L |