Slave- a person who has few rights and spends his/her entire life in service to others (white men).
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What is an abolitionist?
A person who supported the anti slavery.
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What is a tariff and what's the purpose?
Tariff is the taxes on imported goods to gain more money
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What game was invented in this time period?
Baseball
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What is Manifest Destiny?
The belief that the U.S. border should be all the way to the Pacific coast.
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What compromise of the balance of power between slave states and free states was?
The Missouri Compromise.
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Who is Sojouner Truth?
Sojouner Truth was a slave who spoke out against slavery. She also spoke out for womens right.
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What was the north's opinon on the tariff?
The north had alot of factories so they wanted to put high tariffs on goods they got from foreign countries
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After what war was Texas attained?
The American-Mexican war
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What are slave codes?
Slave codes- laws enacted in the south that took away nearly all the rights of slaves by regulating their actions
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Who ended slavery and when?
Abraham Lincoln ended slavery when he signed the Emancipation Proclamtion , but it did not end slavery until 1865.
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Who is Harriet Breecher Stowe and Why is she important to slavery?
She was against slavery and wrote the book "Uncle Tom's Cabin" which made northerners not like slavery. They then wanted it abolished in the south.
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What is the sotherns opinon on the tariff and why?
The south didn't have factories which meant they needed to buy lots of goods from other countries. They thought that it was not fair to add taxes to the goods.
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What was one of the main events that led to the civil war?
Election of 1860
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What was the underground railroad and who helped the slaves escape?
The underground railroad is a series of roads,houses,river crossings.The abolitionists helped southerns slaves escape to the North or Canada.
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How many slaves states and free states were there in Compromise of 1850?
15 free and 15 slave states.
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What is Fredrick Douglass famous for?
He was a abolistionist that wrote a newspaper called "North Star" that talked about the evils of slavery.
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How did the different types of politicals parties contribute to the economy?
The different parties had their own opinion on if they wanted slavery, how trading was gonna go, and how they would rule the country.
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What was agriculture product in Gerogia?
Cotton and Silk
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Define popular Sovereignty?
The ability of the residents of an area to decide upon an issue, such as whether they would allow slavery.
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What was the dred scott case about?
Dred Scott was a slave and was taken to two free states by his master. when he got back he went against the supreme court because he believed he could be a free slave, but the supreme court denied it. They said slaves were not citizens.
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True or false, was Abraham Lincoln a democrat?
False - He was a Republican
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What is the republican party and how did it start?
A republic party is a group of people who were becoming more anti-slavery and were less willing to compromise with the southern wing to keep internal peace
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what is Nullification?
Nullification-the act of declaring invalid or the state of being deprived of value oe effectiveness.
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what is the difference between a slave and a yeomon farmer?
slaves were working with out making a profit but when yeomon farmers had work to do on the farm they did it theirselves and got their profit doing it thiersevles