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| 1323107813 | Sectionalism | Divisions with different parts of the country; people identify themselves more with their section that with their nation. Most southerners felt more like southerners than Americans. | 0 | |
| 1323107814 | Internal improvements | The north and south were divided mainly by slavery but also in their opinions on ___. The north and south disagreed on where certain structures should be built, like canals and roads. | 1 | |
| 1323107815 | Tariffs | The north and south were divided mainly by slavery but also in their opinions on ___, a tax on imported goods. | 2 | |
| 1323107816 | Eli Whitney | He invented the Cotton Gin | 3 | |
| 1323107817 | Cotton Gin (COTTENA GEENA) | Invented by Eli Whitney in 1793, revitalized slavery. Prior to this, a slave could pick and clean 1 pound of cotton a day but now they can pick and clean 50 pounds. | 4 | |
| 1323107818 | Missouri Compromise (1820) | The ___ admitted Missouri as a slave state and Maine as a free state to keep the balance in the senate. Missouri was the only slave state above the 36-30 line | 5 | |
| 1323107819 | Missouri / Maine | In the Missouri Compromise, ___, even though it was above the 36-30 line, was admitted as a slave state while ___ was admitted as a free state | 6 | |
| 1323107820 | 36-30 line | The line that divided free states from slave states with the exception of Missouri. | 7 | |
| 1323107821 | Abolition | a movement to end slavery | 8 | |
| 1323107822 | John Woolman | He was a Quaker who established the first Abolitionist organization in Pennsylvania in 1754 | 9 | |
| 1323107823 | Colonization | The ___ movement transported blacks back to Africa. It was very controversial, some thought that blacks and whites could coexist, some thought they couldn't. Somewhere between 13,000-20,000 slaves were transported back. | 10 | |
| 1323107824 | American Colonization Society | The land purchased in the movement to transport blacks back to Africa was bought by the ___. This land was bought in Liberia, capital Monrovia, named after James Monroe. | 11 | |
| 1323107825 | William Lloyd Garrison | He was the most famous and prominent white abolitionist. He was a radical and condemned colonization, demanding immediate total emancipation. He was the founder and editor of the Liberator and the co founder of the American Anti-Slavery society. He was robbed and dragged through the streets of Boston almost to the point of death. | 12 | |
| 1323107826 | The Liberator | It was an abolitionist newspaper founded and created by William Lloyd Garrison in 1831 | 13 | |
| 1323107827 | John C. Calhoun | He was the leading spokesperson in Congress for the south. He was the vice president under Andrew Jackson and John Quincy Adams. He was a nasty, racist fellow, saying that slavery was both good for the slave and the slave owner. | 14 | |
| 1323107828 | Elijah P. Lovejoy | He was killed in 1837 in Alton, Illinois because he was an abolitionist. | 15 | |
| 1323107829 | David Walker | He was a black man who published a pamphlet "to the Coloured citizens of the World" encouraging them to rebel. He inspired hope in the blacks and fear in the whites. | 16 | |
| 1323107830 | Appeal to the Coloured Citizens of the World | Written by David Walker, it encouraged slaves to rebel. It was Briefly considered the most notorious document in america. It referred to the Declaration of Independence and the old testament. | 17 | |
| 1323107831 | Harriet Tubman | She was the leading conductor of the Underground Railroad. | 18 | |
| 1323107832 | Underground Railroad | Sympathetic blacks and whites helped slaves escape North, sometimes to Canada. This operation was led by Harriet Tubman, and about 50,000 slaves escaped. | 19 | |
| 1323107833 | Sojourner truth | She was born into slavery in NY and at 30, she escapes and becomes a preacher. She was an outspoken advocate of abolition and women's rights movement | 20 | |
| 1323107834 | Grimke sisters | Sarah and Angelina were the ___ who were key speakers in the abolitionist movement with Frederick Douglas. Since they were women, they often faced harsh audiences. | 21 | |
| 1323107835 | Frederick Douglas | He was the most influential black abolitionist. He was an escaped slave and an electrifying speaker and writer. He had a widely read autobiography. | 22 | |
| 1323107836 | Nat Turner rebellion | This rebellion in 1831 was led by a slave in Virginia who claimed was treated well by his family. He said he had a vision to lead a slave revolt, so he tried by killing his master and the family. His rebellion did not get very far, but it instilled fear in slaveholders and stricter slave codes were enforced. | 23 | |
| 1323107837 | Gold Rush | Within weeks of the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo in 1848, gold was discovered in California. By 1849, tens of thousands of people pour in. | 24 | |
| 1323107838 | Henry Clay | He was the great compromiser, the primary author of the Missouri Compromise. He proposed a solution to CA's problem, which was how it was going to be admitted as a free state. He died while he was trying to form this compromise, so Stephen Douglas took over. | 25 | |
| 1323107839 | Compromise of 1850 | The ___ was drafted by Whig Senator Henry Clay of Kentucky and brokered by Clay and Democrat Stephen Douglas. It admitted CA as a free state and prohibited slave trade in D.C. It also strengthened the fugitive slave laws and said that the remainder of the Mexican Cession would be determined by Popular Sovereignty. | 26 | |
| 1327156693 | California | The gold rush took place in this state, it applied for admissions as a free state in 1849 but was rejected since it would upset the Senate balance of slave states vs non slave states. | 27 | |
| 1323107841 | Popular sovereignty | As part of the compromise of 1850, slavery in remainder of Mexican Cession would be determined by ____, i.e the people's vote | 28 | |
| 1323107842 | Stephen Douglas | When Henry Clay could not continue the Great Compromise, ___ took over to try to carry it out. He also argued that the railroad in the Kansas-Nebraska Act should go through the North, known as the "little giant" | 29 | |
| 1323107843 | Fugitive slave law | As a part of the Compromise of 1850, this law gave harsher provisions to slaves, suck as the accused cannot testify on his/her own behalf, judges could be bribed | 30 | |
| 1323107844 | John Greenleaf Whittier | He was an abolitionist Quaker poet, one of America's most famous poets, he wrote a poem in response to the fugitive slave law | 31 | |
| 1323107845 | Uncle Tom's Cabin | Written by Harriet Beecher Stowe, this novel talked about Uncle Tom, who worked for a nice man until he was sold to a horrible slave owner named Simon Legree. This novel exposed the horrors of slavery, especially to those who knew little about it. | 32 | |
| 1323107846 | Harriet Beecher Stowe | She wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin | 33 | |
| 1323107847 | Simon Legree / Uncle Tom | In uncle Tom's Cabin, ___ was the mean slave owner and ___ was the slave. | 34 | |
| 1323107848 | Kansas-Nebraska Act | In 1854, this act started with the debate of whether or not the railroad should go through the North. Stephen Douglas said that if the Railroad went through the north, then the Kansas and Nebraska territories would have slavery decided by popular sovereignty, which completely ignores the 36 30' line. This act also led to the formation of the Republican party, Border Ruffians, Free Soilers, and Bleeding Kansas. | 35 | |
| 1323107849 | Border Ruffians | After the Kansas-Nebraska Act, many people flood into these new territories and the pro-slavery people were know as the ___ | 36 | |
| 1323107850 | Free Soilers | After the Kansas-Nebraska Act, many people flood into these new territories and the anti-slavery people were know as the ___ | 37 | |
| 1323107851 | John Brown | He was an extreme abolitionist who wanted to be part of the abolitionist movement, he led an attack on Pottawatomie Creek were he and his sons murdered 5 pro-slavery people. | 38 | |
| 1323107852 | Pottawatomie Creek | John Brown led an attack at this pro-slavery community | 39 | |
| 1323107853 | Bleeding Kansas | The deadly clashes between the Border Ruffians and the Free Soilers became known as ___ (1855-1856). Violence replaces Compromise as means to solve slavery issue. | 40 | |
| 1323107854 | Republican Party | The Kansas Nebraska act led to the formation of this anti-slavery political party. | 41 | |
| 1323107855 | Charles Sumner | He was an abolitionist senator from Massachusetts who gives a speech where he calls out slavery, Andrew Butler, and Preston Brooks. He was almost beaten to death by Brooks a couple of days after the speech. | 42 | |
| 1323107856 | Andrew Butler | He was a Senator who was dissed in Charles Sumner's anti-slavery speech | 43 | |
| 1323107857 | Preston Brooks | He was a member of the H of R who almost beat Charles Sumner to death a few days after Sumner's speech. He was sent to jail but 2 years later he was elected again for the H of R. He was hailed as a hero in the South and the North is alarmed over the South's favorable reaction to Brooks's vicious attack. | 44 | |
| 1323107858 | Dred Scott vs Sanford | This case was between two people. The second person was a doctor in the US army who, over the period of 2 years, took his slave, [first person], with him. While they were traveling, they lived in some free states temporarily before moving back to Missouri. Encouraged by the family of [second guy], [first guy] filed a law suit that made it to the supreme court with Chief Justice Roger Taney. Taney ruled that living in a free state did not make him free, [first guy] is not a citizen and has no right to follow law suit, and that Congress has no right to prohibit slavery in any territory. South was delighted and they thought that this ruling would end Slavery controversy, but the NOrth was horrified and irate at the harshness of the ruling | 45 | |
| 1323107859 | Roger Taney | He was the Chief Justice who made the ruling in the Dred Scott vs Sanford case. | 46 | |
| 1323107860 | Licoln-Douglas debates | These debates between Abraham Lincoln and Frederick Douglas in 1858. Lincoln was a one-term congressman who runs for Senate against the incumbent, Douglas. They were a series of 7 deabtes primarily dealing with the issue of slavery. | 47 | |
| 1323107861 | Harper's Ferry, VA (WVA) | In 1859, John Brown and 21 followers seize control of this federal arsel at ___ hoping to inspire massive rebellion. This short sighted plan was foiled quickly by US troops. 2 of Brown's sons were killed along with 8 others, Brown was charged for treason. Brown died a Martyr. | 48 | |
| 1323107862 | Martyr | Someone who gives their life for a cause | 49 | |
| 1323107863 | Election of 1860 | Abraham Lincoln, a republican, defeats 3 others, including Stephen Douglas. Lincoln's resume to fill the white house was slim, but the Democratic party was divided so Licoln managed to win with only 40% of the popular vote. This election led to the secession of many southern states. | 50 | |
| 1323107864 | Secession / secede | The withdrawal from the Union of 11 Southern states in the period 1860-61, which brought on the Civil War. | 51 | |
| 1323107865 | Confederacy (Confederate States of America) | It was established on February 4th, 1861 with the secession of Southern states. They created a Constitution similar to the U.S. but it plainly allowed slavery. Jefferson Davis was elected president and Alexander Stephens was elected vice president. | 52 | |
| 1323107866 | Jefferson Davis | He was a senator from mississippi who was elected president of the Confederate States of America | 53 | |
| 1323107867 | Alexander Stephens | He was a very racist man from Georgia who became the vice president of the Confederacy | 54 | |
| 1323107868 | Border States | ... | 55 | |
| 1323107869 | Fort Sumter, SC | The Civil war started at ___ in Charleston Harbor. Lincoln sends a ship to the harbor to bring supplies to the troops, even though the south claims it is area part of the Confederacy. Pierre Gustave Toutant Beauregard commanded the Confederate Troops who fired at these ships. | 56 | |
| 1389263709 | William Lloyd Garrison (The Liberator, 1831) | "On this subject I do not wish to think, or speak, or write with moderation. No No! Tell a man whose house is on fire to give a moderate alarm; tell him to moderately rescue his wife from the hand of the ravisher; tell the mother to gradually extricate her babe from the fire into which it has fallen. But urge me not to use moderation in a cause like the present. I am in earnest. I will not equivocate. I will not excuse. I will not retreat a single inch. AND I WILL BE HEARD" | 57 | |
| 1389263710 | John C. Calhoun (1837) | "slavery is a positive good" | 58 | |
| 1389263711 | Sojourner Truth (1851) | "Ain't I a woman" | 59 | |
| 1389273707 | Abraham Lincoln (1858) | "A house divided against itself cannot stand. I believe this government cannot endure permanently half slave and half free. I do not expect the Union to be dissolved - I do not expect the house to fall - but I do expect it will cease to be divided. It will become all one thing or all the other" | 60 | |
| 1389273708 | Abraham Lincoln, upon meeting author Harriet Beecher Stowe in the White House (1862) | "So you're the little lady that started this big war" | 61 | |
| 1389273709 | Roger Taney (1857, Dred Scott decision) | "...We think [people of African ancestry] are...not included, and were not intended to be included, under the word "citizens" in the Constitution, and can therefore claim none of the rights and privileges which that instrument provides for and secures to citizens of the United States." | 62 | |
| 1389273710 | John Brown (on his way to the gallows, 1859) | "Now, if it is deemed necessary that I should forfeit my life, and mingle my blood further with the blood of my children and with the blood of millions in this slave country -- I say let it be done!" | 63 |
