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According to the Declaration of Independence, what do people have the right to do if a government denies its people their natural rights?
What is abolish the government.
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What did David Walker urge slaves to use to achieve emancipation?
What is violence.
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Before 1830, where did most slave labor take place?
What is - on small farms
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What did Charles Finney believe about slavery?
What is - that it was a sin
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Like livestock or land, what did Southerners considered their slaves?
What is - property
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Which word means to officially declare invalid?
What is repeal.
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What is the term for the movement to outlaw slavery?
What is abolition.
200
What is the term for the freeing of slaves?
What is emancipation
200
What protects a person’s right to their property?
What is the Constitution.
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What is the term for a major disagreement, typically when prolonged, public, and heated?
What is controversy
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What was the popular view on how to end slavery up to the 1820’s?
What is that it should be abolished gradually, and that slaveholders should be paid for the loss of their slaves.
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What is the term for the period of U.S. history before the Civil War, or pre-Civil War
What is antebellum
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What motivated some Virginia lawmakers to introduce a bill to abolish slavery in their state? Was the bill passed?
What is Because of Turner’s Rebellion; no.
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Before 1830, where were many U.S. slaves born?
What is Caribbean or Africa
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One defense of slavery involved religion. Explain it.
What is slavery benefited blacks by introducing them to Christianity; this allowed slaves the possibility of eternal life in heaven.
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What did Frederick Douglass believe was the only way to achieve emancipation?
What is through nonviolence
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Fifty years after the revolution, what had every northern state done?
What is outlawed slavery.
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What is the term for a rule that limits debate on an issue (in this case slavery? What happened to this rule in 1845?
What is - a gag rule; it was repealed.
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Why did many southern states pass slave codes?
What is - because of Turner’s Rebellion, and fear of future rebellions
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What is the word for property owned by a person, regarded as having value?
What is asset
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Southerners tried to defend slavery by suggesting that slaves were beloved members of the plantation family. What is the term for this idea?
What is "the myth of the happy slave."
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How did William Lloyd Garrison change the goal of abolitionists?
What is he called for an immediate end to slavery as opposed to a gradual end.
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Southerners defended slavery by comparing slaves it to northern factory workers. Explain their position.
What is Southerners claimed that unlike Northerner factory owners who fired their workers, Southerners cared for their slaves for a lifetime.
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The value of slaves was greater than which two segments of the economy combined?
What is manufacturing; transportation
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What are three (3) reasons the number of slaves in the U.S. increased from 1 million to 2 million after 1830?
What is increased demand for cotton to make textiles in northern factories; and the cotton gin; there were both male and female slaves who began having children