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Vocabulary
Vocabulary
Who Am I?
Who Am I?
Grab Bag
100
a state that permits slavery
What is a slave state?
100
a state that didn't allow slavery
What is a free state?
100
wrote the Liberator
Who is William Lloyd Garrison?
100
issued the Emancipation Proclamation, assassinated
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
100
wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin
Who is Harriet Beecher Stowe?
200
another name for the United States
What is a union?
200
a person who is running away
What is a fugitive?
200
enslaved African American who sued for his freedom
Who is Dred Scott?
200
famous conductor of the Underground Railroad
Who is Harriet Tubman?
200
a law that helped slave owners capture free and escaped slaves
What is the Fugitive Slave Law?
300
a tax on imported goods
What is a tariff?
300
the unfair treatment of particular groups
What is discrimination?
300
led a rebellion at Harper's Ferry
Who is John Brown?
300
abolitionist and supporter of women's rights
Who is Sojourner Truth?
300
mills in Britain and New England needed it
Why the value of cotton grew?
400
an idea that state's, not the federal government, should make final decisions about matters that affect them
What is popular sovereignty?
400
loyalty to one part of the country
What is sectionalism?
400
President of the Confederacy during the Civil War
Who is Jefferson Davis?
400
supported slavery and state's rights
Who is John C. Calhoun?
400
laws were passed to control free and enslaved blacks
What southern states did after Nat Turner's rebellion?
500
someone who joined the movement to abolish, or end slavery
What is an abolitionist?
500
when a part of a country leaves or breaks off from the rest
What is secession?
500
ran against Lincoln for Senate and President
Who is Stephen Douglas?
500
led a rebellion of enslaved people
Who is Nat Turner?
500
people didn't want Abraham Lincoln to be reelected for President
Why Lincoln's name wasn't on the ballot?