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Plantation Life
Who am I?
Politics
Choosing Sides
What is it?
100
This practice made plantation owners very wealthy.
What is slavery
100
A freed slave who planned a slave uprising in the Charleston area.
Who is Denmark Vesey
100
When a state's population is given the right to decide for themselves on an issue, such as slavery.
What is popular sovereignty
100
For secession
What is Secessionists/fire-eaters
100
The right of states to decide laws within their borders
What is state's rights
200
These laws placed controls and restrictions on the enslaved
What is slave codes
200
Elected President in 1860, causing many in the South to become concerned about maintaining slavery and states' rights.
Who is Abraham Lincoln.
200
This series of acts admitted California to the Union as a free state
What is the Compromise of 1850.
200
Against slavery
What is Unionists
200
Invention that revolutionized SC agriculture
What is the cotton gin
300
Many Northerners who organized to fight against slavery
What is abolitionists
300
Vice President under Andrew Jackson; famous nullifier from SC.
Who is John C. Calhoun.
300
A conflict over Southern states not wanting to pay a tax on imports (meant to promote trade with the North.)
What is Nullification Crisis
300
For state's rights
What is Secessionists
300
Document listing South Carolina's reasons for being unhappy with the United States; written in 1860.
What is Ordinance of Secession.
400
This law stated that all states must return runaway slaves to their owners or face a $1,000 fine.
What is the Fugitive Slave Act.
400
Invented a machine to pick seeds out of the cotton plant quickly.
Who is Eli Whitney
400
President during Nullification Crisis and author of "Proclamation to the People of South Carolina."
Who is Andrew Jackson.
400
Loyal to the Constitution and federal government
What is Unionists
400
Small-time farmers who were often poor.
What is Yeomen
500
Another name for plantation owners
What is gentleman farmers
500
Slave who tried to sue for his freedom after having lived in a "free state" for several years with his owner.
Who is Dred Scott
500
Legislative body (group) in SC who met to discuss issues after election of 1860
What is General Assembly
500
Political party against slavery
What is Republicans "free soil"
500
Political party that supported agriculture and state's rights.
What is Democrats.