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Southern economy is base on..?

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Agriculture

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What is the difference between north and south?

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Climate;lifestyle;religion;work difference

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Northern economy is based on..?

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Manufacturing

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Slavery was called _____ in the south

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Peculiar institution

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First African were brought here when? As what?

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1600’s

Indentured servants

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Where were the stops on the triangular trade?

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African coast, West Indies, America

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Worst part of the journey?

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The middle passage

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Who invented the cotton gin?

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Eli Whitney (1793)

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Explain the Prosser revolt

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(1800) Gabriel Prosser; a slave planned an attack on Richmond, VA. Betrayed by one of his group members. He was hung

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Explain Vesey revolt

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(1822) Denmark Vesey; carpenter; FREE black man. Planned an attack on Charlston, S.C. also betrayed. He plus 36 others were hung

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Explain Turner’s Rebellion

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(1831) Nat Turner. Most successful and severe in history. Felt he had a “vision from god” to rebel. He plus five others killed owners of the plantation plus 60 other whites. More than 160 slaves were put to death. Turner was put on trial before he was hung to find out how he did it.

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Less than ____ of whites in the south owned slaves

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Half

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What percent of people in the south did not own slaves?

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72% –including the blacks

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What was cotton sold to?

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Textile mills

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Explain the Missouri Compromise

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(1820) put forth by Henry Clay
•Maine to come in free
•Missouri come in slave
• no slavery above 36 30”

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Wilmot Proviso

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(1846) David Wilmot a representative from Pennsylvania; Quaker. Put an addition (proviso) on a bill.
•any territory gained from the Mexican war would be free soil
• it did not pass, but scared the southerners

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Compromise of 1850

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(1850) California wanted to come in as a free state. The compromise states that
• California enters the union as a free state
• Utah and New Mexico territories would decide for themselves
•Washington DC would remain slave but abolish the slave trade there
• fugitive slave act was passed

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What is the Fugitive Slave Act.?

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Slaves or any blacks in free land could be recaptured as runaway slaves and brought back into slavery

18
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What does it mean for the territories to decide for themselves over slavery?

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Popular sovereignty

19
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Kansas-Nebraska Act

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(1854) Stephen Douglas proposed each state should decide for themselves
- Kansas became the bleeding state; both pro and anti slavery people moved in

20
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What is the Republicans?

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A new political party who demanded a free west

21
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What book cause harsh feelings to stir in the north about slavery?

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Uncle Tom’s Cabin

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Who wrote uncle toms cabin?

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Harriet Beecher Stowe

23
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Who was known as black moses?

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Harriet Tubman

24
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Who was known as the great compromiser?

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Henry Clay

25
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Who was known as the little giant?

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Stephen Douglas

26
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Who founded the liberator?

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William Lloyd Garrison

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Dred Scott case

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(1857) the judge= Roger Taney
Scott was a slave who was taken into a free area traveling with his owner
-he sued for his freedom since he was above 36 30”
Taney said
1) blacks were not citizens so they could not sue
2) slaves are property like a wagon or a dog they could be taken anywhere
3) if they could be taken anywhere this opened the WHOLE counrty to slavery

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Lincoln-Douglas debates

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(1858) Douglas said different thigs according to where he was
Lincoln stayed true to his opinion

29
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Where did John Brown raid?

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The federal arsenal

  • October, 1859
  • Harper Ferry, VA
30
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Which was the first state to leave/secede the union

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South Carolina

31
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When did South Carolina secede?

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December 20, 1860

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What did the states that left the union call themselves?

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The Confederacy

33
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Who was elected as the confederacy’s president?

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Jefferson David

34
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Which action began the civil war?

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South opening fire on fort Sumter; the federal base located off of Charlestown, SC
April 12, 1861

35
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Who was Fredrick Dounglass?

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A FREE slave who revolted. He talked at conventions to show abolitionists what it was like as a slave
Founded the North Star

36
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What were religious slave songs called?

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Spirituals

37
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Which two states did Harriet Tubman mainly travel to?

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Maryland and Delaware

38
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How many trips did Harriet Tubman make?

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19

39
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How many slaves did Harriet Tubman bring to freedom?

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300+

40
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What is an overseer?

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The plantation punisher

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