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How was Denmark Vesey able to organize a revolt, especially considering the slave codes that were in place?
Vesey was a free black, so he was able to move around easily.
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With which movement were Frederick Douglass, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Sarah and Anglina Grimke, and William Lloyed Garrison associated?
The abolitionist movement
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Where were teachers trained?
Normal Schools
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What did William Gregg build in Graniteville?
a textile mill
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What was the name of the first train in South Carolina?
The Best Friend of Charleston
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How was Denmark Vesey's plan for a slave revolt thwarted?
A slave told his master of Vesey's plan to revolt.
200
What was ironic about the Grimke sisters fighting against slavery?
The Grimke sisters grew up on a plantation and were raised by slaves.
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What was the name given to schools attended by females?
seminaries
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Who did William Gregg hope to assist when he built a textile mill?
Poor whites
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How did the railroad have a positive impact on the economy of South Carolina?
The railroad made it easier for planters to get cotton to market, increased trade, and improved economic conditions wherever railroads went.
300
What were the consequences of Turner and Vesey's revolts?
Manumission papers, white sponsors, free blacks who left SC could not return, $50 tax on all free blacks born in SC or who had lived in SC for more than five years, Vesey and Turner were both hanged
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Why did the Grimke sisters decide to leave South Carolina and head north?
The Grimke sisters moved north where their views about slavery were more acceptable.
300
One area of education benefited most during the Antebellum period. Name this area.
Higher Education
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Organized a slave revolt in Charleston, SC
Denmark Vesey
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How did people in the South react to northern criticism of slavery? Ministers? Political leaders? John C. Calhoun
Ministers - claimed the Bible justified slavery Political leaders - said that slavery was necessary John C. Calhoun - said that slavery was a "positive good"
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What was the reaction of southern opponents of slavery as a result of the Denmark Vesey plot?
Southern opponents of slavery became less vocal after the Denmark Vesey plot.
400
What impact did the abolitionist movement have on the growth of slavery in South Carolina?
The growth of the abolitionist movement in South Carolina angered white South Carolinians and increased sectionalism.
400
Name three colleges founded in South Carolina during the Antebellum Period.
SC Military Academy (The Citadel) Erskine College (Presbyterian) Furman (Baptist) Wofford (Methodist) Columbia-for women (Methodist) Converse-for women (Methodist) Newberry (Lutheran)
400
Slave preacher who felt that God wanted him to end slavery in America
Nat Turner
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Which SC slave bought his own freedom by learning how to make cotton gins?
William Ellison of Statesburg
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How did the Denmark Vesey Plot impact the Grimke sisters?
This plot forced them to leave their South Carolina home and move north.
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What religious groups in South Carolina did not approve of slavery?
Quakers and Methodists
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Were blacks allowed to go to school?
It was illegal for whites to educate blacks; however, some schools were started for blacks by free blacks.
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The publisher of an abolitionist newspaper called The Liberator which spoke out against slavery.
William Lloyd Garrison
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When it was finished, South Carolina's first railroad was the _________________railroad in the world.
longest