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The Fugitive Slave Act
The Kansas Nebraska Act
Antislavery Literature
Harper’s Ferry
Breaking with the Union
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What year was the Fugitive Slave act passed?
1850
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What did the Kansas Nebraska Act do?
Divided the rest of the Louisiana Territory into Kansas and Nebraska.
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Who used slave narratives to help their cause for no slavery?
Abolitionists in the North.
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Who worked to start a slave uprising in 1858?
John Brown.
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What is secession?
The act of formally withdrawing from the Union.
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What did the Fugitive Slave Act do?
It made it a federal crime to help runaway slaves.
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What would be used to decide if Kansas and Nebraska would become slave states?
Popular Sovereignty.
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Who were the best known slave narrators?
Frederick Douglass and Sojourner Truth.
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When did John Brown’s raid begin?
October 16, 1859.
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Why did southerners fear that Lincoln would abolish slavery in the South once in power?
It would destroy the South’s economy and society.
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How did African Americans escape this injustice?
They went to Canada.
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Who supported building a railroad to the Pacific that began in Chicago?
Stephen Douglas.
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What were the North’s and South’s reaction to these books about antislavery?
It sparked outrage in the South, and gained praise in the North.
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Did any enslaved African Americans join Brown in this raid?
No.
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What state’s legislature called for a special convention to consider the question of secession four days after Lincoln’s election?
South Carolina.
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Who were suspected runaways taken to?
U.S Commissioners.
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What did key southern senators said they would give up their plans in exchange for?
The new territory west of Missouri opened up to slavery.
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What was the name of a powerful antislavery novel written by Harriet Beecher Stowe?
Uncle Tom’s Cabin.
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What did John Brown want to do during his slave uprising?
Attack the federal arsenal in Virginia and seize the weapons there.
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When did the convention open, and where?
December 17, 1860 in Charleston.
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What did a person who helped a runaway slave face?
6 months in prison and a $1000 fine.
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What had to be done in order to build the railroad to the Pacific?
The rest of the Louisiana Purchase had to be made into a federal territory.
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Why were two reasons that these famous slave narrators so popular?
1 - Its central character was a woman. 2 - Second, Sojourner Truth was a slave in New York, and not the South.
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What did Colonel Robert E. Lee order a squad of marines to do?
Storm the firehouse.
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Why did southerners who wanted to secede from the Union believe that they could?
The constitution doesn’t directly address the issue of secession.