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The Southern economy was based on this.
(The answer is not slavery.)
What is agriculture?
Even though slavery was not allowed in the Northern states, black people still faced discrimination through this.
What is segregation?
Congress established a "gag rule" after this compromise.
What is the Missouri Compromise?
After she escaped, she guided hundreds of enslaved people from the South to freedom.
Who is Harriet Tubman?
laws in Southern states designed to strictly control enslaved people
What are Slave Codes?
This man argued that enslaved lives were better off than those back in Africa as well as common workers.
Who is John C. Calhoun?
Angelina Grimke moved to the North to fight for abolition. She also fought for this group's rights.
What are women's rights?
By law, enslaved people were defined as this.
What is property?
Uncle Tom's Cabin was a book detailing the cruelty of slavery written by this author.
Who is Harriet Beecher Stowe?
The political party ran on the platform of containing slavery, meaning they would not abolish it. Rather, they would keep it from spreading further west.
What is the Republican Party?
This Supreme Court decision states that enslaved people did not have a right to sue in federal court because he was not a citizen.
What is the Dred Scott Decision?
Analogy: The South is to slave states, as the North is to ____ states.
What is free?
This determined where slavery was allowed to exist within the Louisiana Territory.
What is the Missouri Compromise?
This abolitionist sought an absolute end to slavery in the United States. He was also the editor of "The Liberator."
Who is William Lloyd Garrison?
Although killing enslavers was not a common way for enslaved people to fight back against slavery, a rebellion led by this man occurred in 1831.
Who is Nat Turner?
Southern states that seceded formed a new country called this.
What is the Confederacy?
This law required citizens in the North to help capture and return runaway enslaved people.
What is the Fugitive Slave Act?
The Compromises in the 1800s were not the first time that major compromises were made about slavery. Another time was during the C_______ C_______.
What is the Constitutional Convention?
John Brown believed that abolition could only be achieved through this.
What is violence?
Violence erupted in the territories between pro-slavery and anti-slavery settlers, leading some newspapers to refer to this state as "bleeding."
What is Kansas?