Staar Points 22 Flashcards
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Author of the book “Uncle Tom’s Cabin” an anti-slavery book which infuriated slave holders
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Harriet Beecher Stowe
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Supreme Court case that rules slavery was Constitutional
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Deed Scott v Sanford (1857)
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The idea that people should trust their individual conscience to lead them to do what is morally right, even if it means resisting laws that go against their beliefs
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Transcendentalism
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Essayist,poet,philosopher who wrote the essay “On the Duty of Civil Disobedience” , believed it was the duty of citizens to disobey unjust government policies
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Henry David Thoreau
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Former slave who became a leader in the abolitionist movement
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Frederick Douglass
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Fighting between the North and South over the issue of slavery and state’s rights
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American Civil Was (1861-1865)
