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Pre-Civil War North and South Ch. 18-20 Test Flashcards

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Industrialization

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Advancements in technology and industry which allowed mass production using machinery.

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Clipper Ships

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Small ships with large sails which made travel by sea much faster than with previous ships.

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Telegraph

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An apparatus that uses electric signals to transmit messages.

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Morse Code

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Series of dots and dashes used to transfer messages.

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Internal Improvements

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The act to connect the country by creating roads and canals.

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Railroad

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Tracks that steam powered locomotives traveled on. Connected the North.

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Hostility

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Unfriendly attitude to immigrants

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Robert Fulton

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Raced the Clermant, a steam boat, on New York’s Hudson River to prove they were practical.

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Peter Cooper

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Invented the steam engine for locomotives.

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John Deere

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Invented the steel-tipped plow in around 1847

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Elias Howe

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Made sewing machine in 1846

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Deforestation

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Taking away trees in forests to gain the land

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Prejudice

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Unfair opinion not based on facts

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Canals

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Method to travel Rivers.

Used to connect areas, mainly the South for transportation.

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Climate of the North

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4 main seasons

Freezing summers to extremely hot summers

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Farming Machines

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Inventions which helped farmers increase the size of their harvest. Ex: Steel-tipped plow, mechanical reaper, and the thresher.

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Factory System

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Method of using unskilled laborers in order to complete tasks in an assembly line.

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Immigrants

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Person who comes to another country from another.

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Nativists

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People opposed to immigration

Thought immigrants threatened the future of “native” American born citizens

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Discrimination

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Unfair treatment of group due to personal feelings

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Upper South

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States Maryland, Virginia, and N. Carolina

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Deep South

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Sates Georgia, S. Carolina, Alabama and Mississippi

Harder for slave to escape because of great distance to freedom.

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Plantation

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Large area of land owned by a person and used other people to live on it and grow crops

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Cotton Gin

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Cotton “engine”, separated cotton fibers from seeds

50 lbs. instead of 1 lb. / day

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Capital

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money to invest in a business

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Yeoman

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Farmers without slaves

largest group of whites in the South

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Rural Poor

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Lived in crude cabins in wooded areas where they could do a small amount of farming.

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Fixed Cost

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Costs that stay the same every year that must be paid

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Credit

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Loan where money is loaded and is payed back later with interest.

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Overseers

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Plantation manager who looked over other slaves. Often a slave themselves.

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Slave Codes (define)

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Laws in the Southern states that controlled enslaved people.

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2 Examples of slave codes

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  1. Preventing from reading/writing

2. Prevented from leaving master’s property with ought their permission.

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The Underground Railroad

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Network of “safe-houses” owned by free blacks and whites who opposed slavery and offered assistance to runaway slaves.

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Nat Turner

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Literate religious leader who helped lead a brief violent rampage in Virginia which killed 55 people.

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Harriet Tubman

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Guide to many slaves as she returned to the South 20 times to free 300 slaves over 10 years.

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Fredrick Douglass

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Former slave who was an important leader in the abolitionist movement, was a literate leader.

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Tenant Farmer

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Farmers who rented or worked on landlord’s estates.

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Climate of the South

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Mild Winters

Long Hot Summers, long growing seasons as well as rainfall.

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Farming not an option in the North

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Rocky Dirt

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3 Phases of Industrialization

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  1. Divide Tasks
  2. Assembly line
  3. Factory + Assembly Line
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4 Impacts Industrialization had on Northern Economy

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  1. Mass production made easier
  2. People From homes to workforce
  3. After Sewing machine, clothing was cheaper
  4. By 1860 Northeast factories produced 2/3 of US’ manufactured goods
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Transportation changes impacted economy

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Contributed to America’s new booming industries.

43
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Need to change form of communication

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Due to growth of industry and new pace of travel

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May 24, 1844 Event

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Morse demonstrated the Telegraph to Baltimore

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Technology’s impact on farmers

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Increase size of harvest

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Cash Crops

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Crops planed strictly for sale

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3 impacts of Industrial Revolution

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  1. Craftsmen out of work laborers paid little
  2. National government promoted manufacturing, trade and transportation
  3. Lead to urbanization
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Poor people lived where in the 1700s in the South

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The Coast

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Barriers to Industrialism in the South

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  1. Boom in Cotton Sales
  2. Lack of Capital
  3. Lack of demand in south for manufactured goods
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Southerners invested all their money where?

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Slaves and land

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The South was dependent on who?

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The North, manufacturers

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Average work day

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14 hours

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Trade union

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Organization of workers with the same trade or skill

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Strike

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Refusing to work to create pressure to improve conditions, wages, and limiting working hours

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3 Unfair treatments of African Americans in North

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  1. Vote
  2. Attend public schools
  3. Barred from public facilities
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Women’s suffrage 3

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  1. Lower wages
  2. No union acceptance
  3. Prohibited from certain positions
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Sarah Bagley fought for what?

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10 hour workday

58
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Reform

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Change something for the better

59
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Henry David Thoreau go to jail

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Refused to pay tax on Mexican American War

60
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Transcendentalism

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Focused on nature and natural being

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First state to ban Alcohol

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Maine

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Two famous women suffrages

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Elizabeth Cady Sampson
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Susan B Anthony

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Dorothea Dix’s goals

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Prison reform, mental institutions, and education reform.

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Horace Mann

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Father of Public education

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4 Souther Farmer Groups

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Yeoman, Rural Poor, Tenant Farmers, and Plantation Owners.

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A slaves’s greatest fear

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Sold or separated form family

67
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Slaves in a cabin

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10-12 people

68
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1808 Congress outlawed________

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Transcontinental Slave Trade

69
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Model of Declaration of Sentiment

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The Declaration of Independence

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Invention that brought Industrialism to Northern Agriculture

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Mechanical Reaper

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Fredrick Douglass spread is message by using _______-

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The Liberator a newspaper

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Dorothea Dix devoted her life to____, _____, ____

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Prison Reform
Mental Ill Reform
Education Reform

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Life for African Americans in North

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Discrimination and Segregation

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Legal status of slaves

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Property

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Harriet Tubman’s work in Underground Railroad

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Lead slaves to freedom

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Goods transported by what in the South

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Boats on Rivers + Canals

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Immediate effect of Seneca Falls Convention

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Women’s Rights Improved

78
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Slaves and Women shared one characteristic

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Little Rights for both groups

79
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Group which benefited from early establishment of public schools

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Free White Boys

80
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Economy in South depended upon _______

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Farming

81
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By 1850 Most efficient transportation method in the North

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Trains + Railroad

82
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Reasons for textile mills being built on rivers

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Easy transportation of finished goods

83
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Why Southerners that did not own slaves supported it

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Their economy depended upon them

84
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Cotton Gin Effect on Slaves

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Need for slaves increased + made them pick more cotton

85
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Reasons immigrants settled in the North

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Factory work + inexpensive land

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A Slave’s bigest fear

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Being sold / separated from their family

87
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How slaves used spirituals

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Tell how to escape

88
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Focus of Horse Mann’s reform movement

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Education

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Henry David Thoreau’s Contribution to Transcendentalism

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Refused to pay taxes + Went into woods + Wrote a book about natural being

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Organizers of Seneca Falls Convention

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Anthony + Stanton + Lucricia Mott

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Why Southerners invested little in mills + factories

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No Capital to start + money in farming

92
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Geography of South’s benefit to farming

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Rich fertile Farmland + Clmate

93
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Group that focused on ending slavery

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Abolitionists

8th Grade U.S. History (2 decks)

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