Civil War

Question 0

Salem Witch Trials

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Trials in 1692 in the COLONY of Salem, Massachusetts that led to 20 peoples’ death after young girls charged people with practicing witchcraft.

Question 1

Abolitionist

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A person who worked in the movement to do away with slavery. Feelings started in the First Great Awakening in the north.

Question 2

First Great Awakening

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Religious movement in the 13 colonies around 1740. Descibed the agonies of Hell & urged people to go to church and repent their sins. Start of anti-slavery in the north.

Question 3

Conestoga Wagon

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A horse pulled covered wagon with wide wheels, curved wagon bed, and an arched canvas top.

Question 4

Mill

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A machine that processes materials such as grain. Used water power and were in the north.

Question 5

Cotton Gin

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A machine designed to separate seeds from cotton fiber created by Eli Whitney. The machine increased the demand for slaves in the south.

Question 6

Soil Exhaustion

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The overuse of fertile soil. Plantations went west as cotton used up the nutrients of the soil.

Question 7

Sectionalism

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Loyalty to local interests. One of the issues that divided people was the issue of slavery.

Question 8

Missouri Compromise/Compromise of 1820

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Act in 1820 admitting Missouri as a slave state, Maine as a free state, and forbidding slavery north of the 36 30’ line.

Question 9

Popular Sovereignty

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The pre civil war policy of allowing the voters in a territory to decide whether or not to allow slavery

Question 10

Kansas-Nebraska Act

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The 1854 law creating the territories of Kansas and Nebraska and allowing settlers there to decide whether to permit slavery. POPULAR SOVEREIGNTY. Both pro and anti slavery forces used violence to control people’s votes.

Question 11

Second Great Awakening

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A revival of religious faith in the 1800’s. A reaction to FIRST INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION. Created lots of social organizations. They reformed, jails, education, and the # of work hours per day.

Question 12

Three – Fifths Compromise

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Created with the Constitution in 1778 to count FIVE slaves as THREE people for the census in the House of Reps. (CONGRESS) = House of Reps and Senate to create laws in the U.S.

Question 13

Middle Passage

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The journey lasting 3 months of slave ships crossing the Atlantic from Africa.

Question 14

Slave Codes

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Laws controlling treatment of slaves. Specific rules on what slaves could and couldn’t do on the plantation.

Question 15

Compromise 1850

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This compromise scraped the 36-30 line and made Calif. a free state. The south would make the Fugitive Slave Law to help catch and return slaves as part of the agreement.