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Land of the free?
Money for whites none for blacks
Uncontrolable
A house divided
100
This state wanted to come in as a free state and a compromise had to be ironed out
What is California
100
Fredrick Douglas viewed this as the main difference between free and enslaved african Americans
What is legal status
100
This invention helped the south to become a wealthy region by increasing cotton production
What is the cotton gin
100
This was the most common way to attempt to control the slaves
What is beating or whipping
100
Congress refused to hear slavery issues, dubed by Northerners as this
What is the Gag Rule
200
This allowed Maine to come in as a free state, divided free and slave states at the 36 30', and allowed Missouri to come in as a slave state
What is the Missouri Compromise
200
This means unequal treatment
What is discrimination
200
Even though only the wealthiest owned slaves in the South, many Southerners supported slavery because the economy depended on this
What is cotton
200
These people were hired by slave owners to break the spirit of the slave and turn them into obedient slaves
What is a slave breaker
200
This bill would not allow slavery to exist in the territories. While it passed the house, it was rejected in the senate.
What is the Wilmont Proviso
300
Proposed by Henry Clay it admitted California to the union as a free state, New Mexico and Utah would be organized into territories that allowed slavery, banned future sales of slaves in Washington DC and implamented a strong fugitive slave law
What is the compromise of 1850
300
The social separation of groups of people espescially by race
What is segragation
300
While wealthy whites enjoyed an abundance of clothes made of the best materials, slaves received very limited clothing made material known as this
What is Negro cloth
300
House slaves resisted slavery in a deadly way by doing this to food
What is poisoning
300
This law made slave hunters out of everyone. However, Northeners refused to obey the law
What is the fugitive slave law
400
In this documnet the US was hoping to buy Cuba from Spain and take it by force if necessary. Northeners accused the Pierce government of trying to bring Cuba in as a slave state
What is the Ostend Manifesto
400
Responding to discrimination, this African American church was established in 1816
What is African Methodist Episcopal Church (AME)
400
Slaves lived crowded together in these
What is a cabin
400
Field hands resisted slavery by pulling down fences, breaking tools and working so sloppily they damaged these
What is crops
400
Two judicial bomb shells that decided that African Americans are not citizens and therefore could not sue for their freedom, and decided that the Missouri Compromise was unconstitutional.
What is the Dred Scott case
500
Douglas' bill opend up the two new territories to settlers and left it up to them to decide the issue of slavery by scraping the Missouri Compromise. This bill did pass congress angering the Northerners
What is "The Kansas Nebraska Act"
500
Established by blacks to protest unequal treatment
What is the National Council of Colored People
500
With the increase in cotton production and the money being made, slave owners saw the freeing of slaves as this
What is financial ruin
500
He was a black preacher who organized a slave revolt
What is Nat Turner
500
In this speech Charles Summner of Massachusettes accused Senetor Stephen Douglas for plotting to make Kansas a slave state which later led to Summner being beaten to near death by Douglas' nephew on the senate floor
What is "The Crime against Kansas"