A Dividing Nation Flashcards

(31 cards)

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Compromise

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A agreement or settlement reached on each side of the debate

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Secede

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Withdraw formally from membership in a federal union

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Abolition

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An action or an act of abolishing a system

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Racism

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A person that labalize someone by there skin color

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Segregation

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An act or state of setting someone aside from a group

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Reformer

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A person devoted to bringing about reform in politics or society

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Discrimination

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Treating someone drifter end just because of there race or sex

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Emancipation

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Freeing someone from slavery

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Underground Railroad

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Network of save houses and routes for slaves who are trying to escape there owner

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Fugitive

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A person who escapes something or slow one

A slave who escapes there owner

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Significants of the south Caroline bombing at fort Sumter

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The bombing started the civil war

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What lead to a violent struggle over slavery in Kansas

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The north finally stood up to slavery and said. No more and fought the south there was blood

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What where southern senators afraid of if there were more free slave states them slave states

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They were scared because what if slaves started to rebel hey case they knew that half the state was free.

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What was a result of the Kansas Nebraska act

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There was a fight between the north and the south

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What happened in February of 1861

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Form the confederate states if America

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What were the results of the Supreme Court decision of the Dred Scott decision

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They sued him for his freedom

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How did Missouri applying for statehood in 1819 challenge the Us law

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It made no one happy because half of the state was free and half wasn’t

18
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What impact did the book Uncle toms cabin have on the US

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A novel that made many people angry in the north about slavery

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What was made clear by the presidential election of 1860’

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Lincoln won by only 40 percent of votes

20
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Dred Scott

Facts

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He got sued for his freedom

Also was a slave

21
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Mumbet

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First black women to file in court

And she court

22
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Margaret Garner

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She killed her own kids

a slaved women who tried to escape

23
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Harriet Tubman

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Escaped slavery

Went back to where slaves are and brought them to freedom

24
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John brown

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Was a abolition

Thought that the only way to stop slavery was by force

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Frederick Douglass
Escaped slavery | Then came a leader of the abolition movement
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How was the compromise of 1850 a victory for the south
Because they banned slavery in Washington DC | Also fugitive slave act
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Abraham Lincoln said that 'A house divided against itself cannot stand' what did he mean by that
Of one half of the world is free slave and the other half isn't there is bound to be a war
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What was the impact of Abraham Lincoln as a result of the Lincoln- Douglass debate
He made a very big difference to slaves
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What did the 36-30 parrallel identify
Imaginary line half way through Loisiana North of the line slavery was banned South if the line slaveholding was permitted
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What was the result of the Missouri compromise
Missouri was a slave state and Maine was a free slave state | BUT NO ONE WAS HAPPY
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Why did the fugitive slave act fail
Because people still broke the rules to save fugitives