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William Lloyd Garrison

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Creator of the liberator and wanted immediate emancipation

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Nat Turner

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A slave and a preacher that with 80 followers attacked four plantations

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Frederick Douglass

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An educated freed slave that created the Northstar

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Abraham Lincoln

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President of the United States elected in 1860

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Jefferson Davis

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President of the Confederate states of America

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John Brown

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Leader of the Pottawatomie massacre which killed 5 men, and lead a raid on Harpers Ferry that was unsuccessful causing his capture and execution

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Harriet Tubman

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Known as the “Moses” of her people, lead runaway slaves to freedom through the underground railroad

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Robert E Lee

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The commanding general for the confederacy army

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Sojourner Truth

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Former slave who fought for woman and civil rights, gave the aint I a woman speech

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Abolitionist definition

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A person fighting for the outlaw of slavery

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Underground railroad definition

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A system of routes that runaway slaves were helped to Canada or safe areas in free states

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What is popular sovereignty

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The right of residents of a territory to vote for or against slavery

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What happened in the Kansas Nebraska act

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It further popular sovereignty, angering the Northerners because under the Missouri compromise, Kansas would have been a free state, and in result there was a series of violent political confrontations involving anti-slavery and proslavery residence confrontations involving anti-slavery and proslavery residents

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Explain uncle Tom’s cabin

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Written by Harriet Beecher Stowe, the novel made slavery a moral issue

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What was the Confederates strategy called

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King cotton

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Explain the Confederates strategy

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They would play defense of role, and sell and trade cotton for war supplies and resources

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What was the union strategy called

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The anaconda plan

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Describe all phases of the union strategy

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A. Blockade southern ports, B. Gain control of the Mississippi River to split the confederacy, C. Capture the Confederate capital, Richmond Virginia

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Explain the significance of ironclads

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Ships made of metal rather than wood, CSS Virginia (Merrimack) vs. USS Monitor

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Describe the Emancipation Proclamation

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It was issued by Lincoln, is freed slaves in areas under rebellion, and it was ignored by the south

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Where were slaves freed due to the Emancipation Proclamation

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Only in areas on the rebel, slaves were NOT saved in border states

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What was the effect of the Emancipation Proclamation

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Many African-Americans enlisted at incredibly high rates in the north

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What percent of the population and what percent of the Union Army did blacks make up

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The blacks made up only 1% of the population but accounted for 10% of the Union Army

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What was “Total War”

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Destroying property and targeting more than just military and attacking everything including civilians

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What were examples of total war in Civil War

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Vicksburg, Sherman’s march to the sea, and a grant’s strategy

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What was Andersonville

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A confederate run POW camp with very high mortality rates

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What was the 13th amendment

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The abolition of slavery

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What was the 14th amendment

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Granted citizenship and due process to former slaves

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It was the 15th amendment

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Established the conditions under which men cannot be denied the right to vote

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Explain the order and definition of the 13th through the 15th amendment

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The abolition of slavery, it’s next citizenship and due process is enforced, finally the blacks receive the right to vote

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What was reconstruction

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The process of admitting the southern states back into the union

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What was the Freedmans bureau

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A US federal government agency established to aid freed men in the south during the reconstruction era of the United States

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What were scalawags

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White southerners who joined the Republican Party

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What were carpet baggers

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Northerners who went south during Reconstruction for business opportunities

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What does KKK stand for

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The Ku Klux Klan

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What was the KKK

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Founded as a social club for former confederates, turned into a terrorist organization with the goal of restoring white supremacy by preventing blacks from using their new rights

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What was sharecropping

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Land owners divided their land and gave each worker a plot of land with seeds and tools, after harvests the sharecropper would give the landowner half of the harvest

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What was tenant farming

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You would rent your and keep all of your profits

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What was the goal from introducing sharecropping and tenant farming

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To keep blacks poor and tied to the land

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What was the compromise of 1877

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The withdrawal of remaining federal troops from the south

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What was the significance of the compromise of 1877

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It’s signaled an end to reconstruction

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Explain the compromise of 1850

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California was admitted as a free state, popular sovereignty is introduced, the sale of slaves is banned in the district of Columbia, and the fugitive slave act was passed

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Describe the fugitive slave act

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Required people in the free states to help caption returned escaped slaves

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Explain the Dred Scott decision

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Supreme Court ruled that African-Americans were not and could never be citizens

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Explain the Seneca Falls convention

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A fight for women’s rights and equality that increased awareness of women’s rights, led by Lucretia Mott and Elizabeth Caddy Stanton

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Explain the second grade awakening

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Led by Charles Grandison Finney, pushed for individual responsibility for self and society improvement and resulted in an overall increase in religion and reform

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Explain the Pottawatomie massacre

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Led by John Brown, him and his men killed five pro slavery supporters

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Describe Fort Sumter

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Lincoln receives a letter from force commander asking for aid so in response Lincoln brings resources as “food for hungry man “resulting in the Confederates firing the first shots at Fort Sumter starting the Civil War

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Describe secession

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When states seceded from the union

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How was the session seen in the Civil War

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With the election of 1860, Southerners believed that they have lost their political voice, the southern states seceded creating the Confederate states of America

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Who was the first state to secede

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South Carolina

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What was Lincolns main goal according to secession

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She just wanted to maintain the union, she was not attempting to abolish slavery

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Who won the election of 1860

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President Abraham Lincoln

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One Civil War begins, who is added to the confederacy

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Virginia seeds, followed by Arkansas Tennessee and North Carolina resulting in the creation of West Virginia

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Describe the battle of Bull Run

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First land battle of the Civil War, the goal is to capture the Confederate capital of Richmond Virginia it was a Confederate victory

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Who are the Confederates inspired by at the battle of Bull Run

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Stonewall Jackson

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What is the state that both armies are in before the battle of Bull Run

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They are both ill prepared for the war

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Describe the battle of Gettysburg

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A three day long battle, day one union has control of key hills, day two, the confederacy gains ground but fails to dislodge the Union forces and day three, pickets charge is lead, Lee attacked the union center on Cemetery Ridge and was repulsed with heavy losses

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Why is the Gettysburg Battle seen as a turning point in the war

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General Lee would never again possess sufficient forces to invade a northern state resulting in the south becoming mainly defensive

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What was the Gettysburg address

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Two minutes speech by Lincoln to dedicate a cemetery at Gettysburg, The speech reminds Americans that they were still one nation, born in liberty and dedicated to equality

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Describe Lee’s surrender

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Lee was forced out of the capital of Richmond Virginia and on April 9, Lee surrenders his army to Grant

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Where did Lee surrender

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Appomattox Courthouse Virginia

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Johnson’s impeachment was due to what

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The underlying issue was that radical Republicans did not agree with Johnson’s week reconstruction plan

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Which battle has the most casualties in the war

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Gettysburg

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Which battle is seen as the bloodiest day in American history

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Antietum

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Who becomes the Union Army leader in 1864

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Ulysses S Grant

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Who became a martyr for the abolitionist movement after his captured and executed at Harpers Ferry

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John Brown

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What effect did the Civil War have on the federal government’s power

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It increased it

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This organization distributed food and clothing, establish teacher training centers, and created industrial institutions in the south

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The Freedmans bureau

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Where was John Brown captured

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At Harpers Ferry

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Which general utilized total war as march to the sea

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Sherman

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Which battle caused both sides to seek better strategies like building trenches and sending out scouts due to such heavy casualties

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Shiloh

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Describe the battle of Shiloh

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Confederate soldiers employ a surprise attack that was initially a success however resulted in a union victory

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What was the result of the battle of Shiloh

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There is great loss shocking both the union and the Confederacy which demonstrated a need for new tactics including scouting and trench warfare

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Explain the conscription

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The drafting of citizens for military service

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Who started drafting first

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The confederacy however the union followed shortly after

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Explain what happened in Vicksburg

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The union let a siege by surrounding the city so nothing could get in or out

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What was the result of the siege on Vicksburg

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Food supplies ran so low that people eat their dogs and mules resulting in Vicksburg surrendering

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What event gave the union full control of the Mississippi

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The siege on Vicksburg

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How did the union successfully split the confederacy in two

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By getting full control of the Mississippi

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What was grants strategy

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To destroy Lee’s army in Virginia while Sherman invades Georgia using total war

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What events led for Lincoln promoting Grant to the commanding general of all Union armies

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Is the victory at Vicksburg

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What was Sherman’s march to the sea

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Sherman lead 60,000 soldiers on a 285 mile march from Atlanta to savanna Georgia destroying everything in its path using total war

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How did Sherman rationalize the destruction of Atlanta

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She believed that it was a necessity to end the war

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Where and who was involved in the Lincoln assassination

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She was assassinated at Ford’s theater in Washington by John Wilkes Booth

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Why did John Brown lead the raid on Harpers Ferry

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He wanted to lead an armed slave revolt

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