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Unit 8: Civil War
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Abolition Movement | Movement to end enslavement (Also known as ‘anti-enslavement movement’) |
| Underground Railroad | Secret routes & safe houses used to help enslaved people escape to freedom |
| Fugitive Slave Act | If a runaway enslaved person is found in the North, they must be returned to their enslaver. Anyone who helps the fugitive will be punished. (South demanded the Fugitive Slave Act in response to the Underground Railroad) |
| Auctions of Enslaved People | Dehumanized enslave people and forcibly separated enslave people from their family |
| Uncle Tom’s Cabin | Harriet Beecher Stowe’s novel about an enslaved person’s life to educate people about the horrors of enslavement in the South It strengthened the abolition movement in the North |
| John Brown’s Raid | Abolitionist John Brown tried to organize a violent enslaved person rebellion against Southern plantation owners It increased the tensions between the North and South because the South feared the more violent rebellions encouraged by the North |
| Dred Scott v Sandford | Supreme Court Case that ruled enslaved people are ‘property’ and do not have rights |
| Election of 1860 | Lincoln was elected as president This lead to the succession (leaving) of South states, creating the Confederacy |
| Emancipation Proclamation | Lincoln stated that any South states that refused to return to the Union (still in rebellion), their enslaved people will be freed This changed the focus of the war from keeping the Union together to be about ending enslavement |
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