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What was the period before the war called?
Antebellum Period
Where did most slaves come from?
Africa's West Coast
________________, the leading black abolitionist, was an escaped enslaved person
Frederick Douglass
What did Harriet Tubman lead?
The fugitive slave act angered who?
Abolitionists
The North favored a ____________ tariff; while the South favored a ______________ tarriff
high; low
Who said "So you are the little woman who wrote the book that started this great war?
Abraham Lincoln
The worst experience for the slaves was crossing the Atlantic to America using what route?
Middle Passage
How many times did Harriet Tubman return to help other enslaved people escape?
Nearly 20
What party did the anti-slavery groups form?
Republicans
Some slave owners or masters used the __________ system. This is where large groups of enslaved people would work for a set amount of time, usually morning to night.
Gang System
The majority of the justices in the Supreme Court ruled _______________ Dred Scott.
Against
What was Harriet Beecher Stowe's book called that captured the horrors of slavery in the South?
Uncle Tom's Cabin
A few days later, Rep. Preston Brooks, Butler's nephew strode into Senate. He walked up to Sumner's desk and began to beat Sumner with a _____________.
Cane
Some slave owners or masters used the __________ system. Enslaved people had specific jobs. When they completed their jobs, they could use the remaining time in the day to do other things.
Task System
What act mandated that enslaved people who fled to free states must be returned to their enslavers?
Fugitive Slave Act
What is the act of educating enslaved people, training them for freedom, and freeing them at a given age?
Gradual Emancipation
Who was the man that went to Kansas to fight against the state becoming a slave territory? He was an abolitionist.
John Brown
Who ended up in the Supreme Court because his master moved to a free state?
Dred Scott
What state voted to secede first?
South Carolina
Who did the Republicans choose as their candidate in the election of 1860?
Abraham Lincoln
Lincoln was not on the ballot in any ___________ state and failed to carry a single ____________ state.
Southern; border
The Confederate States of America voted who as the president and who as the vice president?
Vice President: Alexander Stephens
Where was Fort Sumter located? The Union still had control of this fort.
Charleston, South Carolina
Where is Coach Gunter from? (City and State)
Savannah, Georgia