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What was the Underground Railroad?
A network of secret routes that enslaved people used to escape to freedom.
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Who is Nat Turner and what did he do?
Led a slave rebellion which is seen as controversial because it killed women and children, and caused stricter laws against enslaved people.
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What were some ways the enslaved people resisted slavery?
Running away, rebelling, pretending to be sick, forming strong religious communities, learning to read and write
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This word means to formally end something.
Abolish
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Which planet is closest to the Sun?
Mercury
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What was the cause of the Missouri Compromise?
Missouri was joining the Union, and the North wanted to ensure the Slave states did not gain too much power.
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What question was the Supreme Court trying to answer in the Dred Scott case?
Whether or not Dred Scott was free because he has temporarily lived in free states (Illinois and Wisconsin).
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How did Southerners react to the election of 1860?
They feared Abraham Lincoln would ban slavery, and seceded from the United States.
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This word means to be treated unfairly in society.
Oppression
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What was the cash crop that was grown in the South?
Cotton
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What did the Supreme Court rule in the Dred Scott case?
- Dred Scott was not free
- African Americans were not US citizens and had no rights given by the Constitution
- Congress had no power to ban slavery
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What law required that Northern states return escaped slaves back to the South?
Fugitive Slave Law
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Who was the first states to secede from the US?
South Carolina
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Define "secede"
To break away from something (like a country).
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How many Superbowls have the Ravens won?
Two!
2000 and 2012
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What is John Brown famous for?
He was an abolitionist who lead an attack on a federal armory at Harper's Ferry, hoping to steal weapons for a slave rebellion.
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Why were Northerners upset at the Kansas-Nebraska act?
It allowed slavery in territories North of the 36-30N line setup by the Missouri Compromise.
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What was the primary belief of the Republican Party?
Slavery should not spread to any new US territories.
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Define Popular Sovereignty
Citizens are able to vote on specific issues (like slavery).
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What is the only US state that is made up entirely of islands?
Hawaii
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What were the two effects of the Missouri Compromise?
Missouri joined the Union as a free state, Maine as a slave state to maintain a balance of power.
Slavery was banned North of the 36-30N line.
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What was Abraham Lincoln's message in his "A house divided" speech?
That the United States would not survive divided on the issue of slavery, it would need to be all free or all slave.
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What did Abraham Lincoln personally believe should happen to slavery before he was elected president?
That slavery was morally wrong and that it should not expand into any new territories. But that he would not ban it in the south.
In the long term, the US would need to be all slave or all free.
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What does the word "Union" refer to?
The United States, the country as a whole.
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What state is this?
Kansas
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What were three effects of the Compromise of 1850?
-Slave trade is banned in Washington DC
-California is admitted as a free states
-Popular Sovereignty is allowed in Utah and New Mexico
-Fugitive Slave Law is passed
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What event happened in Congress in 1856 which showed how violent the slavery debate had become?
Caning of Senator Sumner
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What was "Bleeding Kansas" and why did it happen?
It was violence which occurred in Kansas between pro and anti slavery citizens as a result of the Kansas and Nebraska Act.
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This word means someone who dies for a cause/their beliefs.
Martyr
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Botany is the scientific study of what?
Plants