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A Dividing Nation
U.S. History leading to the Civil War
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Frederick Douglass | publisher of abolitionist newspaper called The North Star |
| William Lloyd Garrison | published the abolitionist newspaper called The Liberator and worked for immediate emancipation of slaves |
| abolitionists | people who believed that slavery was wrong and was a violation of the principles of democracy |
| suffrage | The movement that helped women gain equal rights |
| Harriet Tubman | led hundreds of enslaved African Americans to freedom along the Underground Railroad |
| Isabella (Sojourner) Truth | a former enslaved African American who worked for equality and justice and was a leader of the suffrage movement |
| Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton | two women who were leaders in the suffrage movement |
| vote, education, and property | three basic rights that women were deprived of |
| urban | The North was an _______ society in which people held jobs in cities |
| agricultural | The South was an _______ society in which people lived in villages and on farms and plantations |
| manufacturing | The economy in the North was based on _________. |
| tariffs | The North favored _______ to protect factory owners and workers from foreign competition. |
| tariff | a tax on imports that protects factory owners and workers from foreign competition |
| manufactured goods | The South opposed tariffs that would cause the price of _______ ________ to increase. |
| Great Britain | this European nation bought a lot of cotton that was exported from the South |
| illegal | The South believed they had the right to declare any national law _____________. |
| national | The North believed that the power of the __________ government was supreme. |
| states | The South believed that __________ rights were the most important. |
| divided | The North believed that the nation was a union that could not be ________. |
| Missouri Compromise | Maine entered the Union as a free state and Missouri entered as a slave state |
| Compromise of 1850 | California entered the Union as a free state and southwest territories would decide for themselves about slavery |
| Kansas-Nebraska Act | People in each state would decide the slavery issue ("popular sovereignty") |
| Abraham Lincoln | elected in 1860 |
| eleven | number of states that seceded |
| South | believed that states had freely joined the Union and could freely leave it |
| Fort Sumter | the first shots fired of the Civil War |
| states that seceded | Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Texas, Arkansas, Tennessee |
| border states | Delaware, Kentucky, Maryland, Missouri |
| West Virginia | This state was formed from western counties of Virginia that refused to secede. |
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