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American History Path to Civil War
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Slave that sued for his freedom
David Webster
Dred Scott
Fredrick Douglass
John C Calhoun
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How did slave owners rationalize enslaving African Americans?
They said it wasn’t against the law so it must be fine
They shared their profits with the slaves
They dehumanized African Americans with racist ideologies
They set a certain number of slaves free each year
3
After speaking out against slavery, Charles Sumner was attacked on the Senate floor by who?
Abraham Lincoln
Fredrick Douglass
Preston Brooks
John C. Calhoun
4
Self making in the South involved: 1. Buy Land, 2: Buy Slaves, and this
buy more slaves
invest in industry
move west
grow cotton
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Person who dies for a great cause
coward
martyr
Dred Scott
Henry Clay
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This rejuvenated the slave system in the South.
Compromise of 1850
Cotton Gin
Missouri Compromise
Fugitive Slave Act
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This act basically repealed the Missouri Compromise
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Fugitive Slave Act
None of the above
Compromise of 1850
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Slavery was banned in all territories north of the 36 30’ parallel in this compromise.
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Compromise of 1850
Missouri Compromise
Dred Scott Case
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This book opened the eyes of many northerners to the evils of slavery
Uncle Tom’s Cabin
The Bible
Lincoln-Douglas Debates book
The Liberator
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Hard work is the way to heaven and the American dream was part of this northern belief system
Free Labor Ideology
Cotton is King
Self Making
Manifest Destiny
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California entered the Union as a free state in this compromise
Missouri Compromise
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Compromise of 1850
The Great Compromise
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Maine entered the Union as a free state in this compromise
3/5 Compromise
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Missouri Compromise
Compromise of 1812
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The use of force to make someone do something against their will.
popular sovereignty
coercion
martyr
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Radical abolitionist who led a raid on Harpers Ferry and hoped to arm slaves and end slavery.
Fredrick Douglass
Daniel Webster
John Brown
William Lloyd Garrison
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U.S. troops were able to dominate the Mexican army during the Mexican-American War because
Far larger army than the Mexican army
Use of soldiers on horseback rather than infantry
they had superior artillery and muskets
Well trained commanders from West Point
16
Stephen Douglas’s primary argument for handling of slavery in new states
written in 3/5 Compromise
Manifest Destiny
popular sovereignty
coercion
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Belief that the United States should spread all the way to the Pacific Ocean.
The Big Move
The Great Migration
Compromise of 1850
Manifest Destiny
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Author of Uncle Tom’s Cabin.
Henry Clay
Dred Scott
Harriet Beecher Stowe
John C Calhoun
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Legislator from Kentucky known as “The Great Compromiser”
Henry Clay
David Webster
Harriet Beecher Stowe
John C. Calhoun
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The belief that slaves wanted to be slaves; owners helping them by giving food and shelter
Manifest Destiny
Free Labor Ideology
Positive Good Argument
State Sovereignty
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Those who wished to end slavery
Cotton Farmers
martyr
abolitionists
Harriet Beecher Stowe
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He fought for state sovereignty and the institution of slavery
Daniel Webster
Henry Clay
Stephen Douglas
John C. Calhoun
23
The South viewed John Brown's attack on Harpers Ferry as what?
Abolitionists were good people with good intentions
reassurance federal govt. would stand behind slavery
a wake up call to end slavery ASAP
Confirmation of a conspiracy by northerners to end slavery
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He helped to push through the Compromise of 1850 and drafted the Kansas-Nebraska Act.
Abraham Lincoln
Henry Clay
Stephen Douglas
John C. Calhoun
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A systematic body of beliefs especially about human life or culture
Ideology
Manifest Destiny
Coercion
Sovereignty
