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Quest of a Hemisp 15
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Abraham Lincoln | farmer, grocery clerk, lawyer; 16th President; against slavery; " Honest Abe"; "A house divided against itself cannot stand" |
| Jefferson Davis | graduate of West Point,Colonel in US army; President of Confederate States of America: for slavery and division of Union into 2 countries |
| Stephen A. Douglas | orator, Senator;Democratic nominee for President in 1860; for slavery |
| History of slavery | *900s-1st African Negroes sold in Europe, Mexico & South America *1492- 1st black man brought to Western Hemisphere by Columbus *1619-Dutch sold 20 Negroes to Virginia Planters *1680-1688- Royal African Company sold 47,000 Negroes in America |
| History of slavery in United States (up to 1850) | *1689- 1st written protest about slavery read in Germantown, Pennsylvania by Mennonites *1700s- Lord Oglethorpe prohibits slavery in his Georgia colony *1787- George Mason speech against slavery * |
| More History of Slavery in US (up to 1850) | *1793- Eli Whitney invents the cotton gin increasing the demand for more slaves to pick cotton *1820- Missouri Compromise of 1820-land north of Missouri should be "forever free" of slavery *1850- Compromise of 1850 |
| Compromise of 1850 | *California admitted as free state *New Mexico & Utah- slavery decided by vote of its citizens *Runaway slaves would be returned to their masters * No slave trade in nation's capitol |
| Significance of the cotton gin | *It made the cotton crop more profitable *It increased the demand for cotton * Thereby increasing the demand for slaves. *Before this invention, cotton was "dying" out and slavery was not as needed |
| Kansas- Nebraska Act | Allowed settlers in this territory to decide for themselves whether to be slave or free |
| Dred Scott Decision | *that a slave who had resided in a free state and territory was not thereby entitled to his freedom *African Americans were not and could never be citizens of the United States *the Missouri Compromise was unconstitutional. |
| "Underground Railroad" | A network of routes, places, and people that helped enslaved people in the American South escape to the North. |
| Uncle Tom's Cabin | Written by Harriet Beecher Stowe Raised awareness of the slavery problem |
| abolitionists movement | an organized effort to end the practice of slavery in the United States |
| Republican Party | Formed in 1856 by citizens opposed to the extension of slavery |
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