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abolitionist: one who wants to end slavery
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About how many free African Americans lived in 1860 South?: over 200,000
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Did most white southerners own slaves?: no
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Did these free African Americans have some unique restrictions on them?: yes
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Explain the name King Cotton: cotton was dominant crop
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How was cotton production after the invention of the cotton gin?: it increased dramatically
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Identify Frederick Douglass: black abolitionist, brilliant speaker
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Identify Harriet Tubman: Helped with the Underground Railroad
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Identify Sojourner Truth: black abolitionist
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Identify William Lloyd Garrison: white abolitionist
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LIst a few mild methods of slave resistance: working slowly, damaging crops and tools, poisoning master
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List a few severe methods of slave resistance: suicide, escaping, revolts, killing master
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Name Douglass's antislavery newspaper: North Star
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Name Garrison's antislavery newspaper: Liberator
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Name the abolitionist sisters: Angelina and Sarah Grimke
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Slave codes: restrictions on slaves
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Were the non-slave owners against the institution of slavery?: no
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What 3 men came up with the Great Compromise?: Henry Clay, John Calhoun, and Daniel Webster
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What 4 things happened in the Compromise of 1850?: California became a free state, rest of the Mexican cession would have "popular sovereignty", no slave trade in Washington, D.C, and a strict new Fugitive Slave law
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What Act nullified the Missouri Compromise?: Kansas Nebraska Act
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What did Chief Justice Roger B. Taney and Supreme Court say about Dred Scott's case?: blacks are not citizens, slaves are property
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What did the Chief Justice's decision do?: nullify the Missouri Compromise and make the south happy
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What did the Kansas-Nebraska Act say?: territories of Kansas and Nebraska would have popular sovereignty
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What did the Missouri Compromise say?: all land north of 36° 30' in the Louisiana Territory would be free; south would be slave
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What did the Republican Party want?: to stop the spread of slavery
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What did Wilmot Proviso say?: slavery would not be allowed in any land won from Mexico; narrowly defeated
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What effect did Nat Turner's revolt have on the southern white population?: the whites were scared
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What fraction of the 1860's South's population were enslaved African Americans?: 1/3
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What happened to Denmark Vesey and Nat Turner, leaders of slave revolts?: they were killed
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What is the message of the book, Uncle Tom's Cabin?: slavery is bad
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What kind of state did Maine enter as?: free
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What kind of state did Missouri enter as?: slave
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What number of slaves did one have to own in order to be called a planter?: 20
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What was the impact of Uncle Tom's cabin?: north was stronger against slavery and the south was mad at the north
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What was the Underground Railroad?: a way to get from slave south to free north
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Where did Dred Scott go?: taken from slave land to free land to slave land
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Where is Daniel Webster from?: Massachusetts
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Where is John Calhoun from?: South Carolina
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Which section of the country was urban and industrialized?: north
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Who are the 2 main characters in Uncle Tom's Cabin?: Uncle Tom and Simon Legree
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Who came up with the Kansas-Nebraska Act?: Senator Stephen Douglas of Illinois
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Who came up with the Missouri Compromise?: Senator Henry Clay of Kentucky
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Who invented the cotton gin?: Eli Whitney
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Who is the author of Uncle Tom's Cabin?: Harriet Beecher Stowe
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Who killed pro-slaves?: John Brown
