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- Which compromise is shown below? It created a free state (ME) and a slave state (MO).
- Which compromise is shown below? It added CA as a free state and a tougher fugitive slave law?
- What did Abraham Lincoln "win" after he lost the 1858 Senate campaign against Stephen Doughlas?
- Songs, mostly religious, sung by slaves are called...
- The belief that states have rights to do what is best for themselves and to ignore federal laws?
- A tariff is a _______________________ It caused economic tension between North and South.
- Uncle Tom's Cabin was a best selling book of the 1800's. Who wrote it?
- What law (act), that led to violence in Kansas (Bleeding Kansas) is shown below?
- What effect did the Compromise of 1850 have on the city of Washington DC?
- The Kansas Nebraska Act basically canceled the_________________, allowing slavery to move North of MO.
- The abolitionist who led over 300 slaves to freedom on the Underground Railroad new face of $20?
- This radical abolitionist led a raid on Harpers Ferry in an attempt to start a slave rebellion?
- Abolitionist who changed her name and began a Journey to tell people the truth about slavery.
- -Civil War ends in 1865 with Union factory
- How much of the southern white male population died in the war?
- Thomas Jefferson received the bulk of his support the __________.
- the 1st time Parliament ever taxed the colonies toraise money for the crown
- Alexander Hamilton's financial program favored __________.
- Ben Franklin proposed a plan of union (delegates approved, colonies rejected- as did parliament)
- The "__ __ __ __ __" rang out, though historians don't know who fired first