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Chapters 13/14 Flashcards

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Discrimination

A

Unfair treatment of a group; usually due to race/religon

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Abolitionist

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A person who strongly favors doing away with slavery

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Famine

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An extreme shortage of food

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Nativist

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A person who favors those born in his country ; opposed to imigrants

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Overseer

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Person who supervises a large operation or its workers

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Slave code

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Laws passed in the Southern states that controlled/restricted enslaved people

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Underground railroad

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A system that helped African American slaves escape from the South to the North

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Fugitive

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Runaway or trying to run away

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Secede

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To leave or withdraw

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Popular Sovereignty

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The idea that people living in a territory had the right to decide by voting if slavery would be allowed there

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4 differences between the North and South

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North: South:

  • business -farming
  • modern transportation -poor transportation
  • industry/factories -plantations
  • city life -fewer cities
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Southerns thought of African Americans as…

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Not as superior as whites, treated them like tools.

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12
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When was the Kansas-nebraska act?

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1854

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13
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Who helped vote kansas a slave state?

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Border ruffians

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14
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Who was the chief in the dred scott desicion that declared slavery legal?

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Chief justice taney

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What was the dred scott desicion about?

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Dred scott wanted freedom from slavery

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When was the law suit for the dred scott decision filed?

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1846

17
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When does the supreme court decide against dred scott?

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1857

18
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Where was the dred scott decision

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Missouri and illinois

19
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When was john browns raid?

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1859

20
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Where was john browns raid?

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Harpers ferry, virginia

21
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What does jown brown get convicted of?

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He was convited of treason, he was hung on december 2, 1859

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Martyr

A

Person who dies for a great cause

23
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Arsenal

A

Storage place for weapons

24
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Emancipate

A

To set free

25
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Border states

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States between N & S that were divided over staying in the Union or joining the Confederacy

26
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Harriet Tubman

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Escaped slave ; Underground railroad conductor

27
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Harriet Beecher Stowe

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Author of Uncle Toms Cabin

28
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Frederick douglas

A

Leading abolitionist

29
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John Brown

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Abolitionist who believed God chose him to end slavery

30
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Nat Turner

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Slave who led rebellion against slave owners

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