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1. Missouri was admitted as a slave state and Maine was admitted as a free state
2. 36 30’ latitude separated free and slave states
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1. Repealed Missouri Compromise
2. Use popular sovereignty to decide if slave or free state
3. Southerners and Northerners flooded Kansas and cause many fights- Bleeding Kansas
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1. Statehood delayed for 9 years because it would upset balance between slave and free states
2. Texas admitted as slave state |
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1. Due to California Gold Rush, Southerners and Northerners were going to California
2. Northerners thought is was unfair for Southerners to use slaves to mine gold
3. California would be free state and no slave trade in Washington, D.C.
4. Mexican Cession could decide if slave or free and Congress passed Fugitive Slave Act |
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1. Dred Scott was a slave who was taken from a slave state to a free state, and then back to a slave state
2. Scott argued that because he was in a free state, he was now a freed man
3. The Supreme Court ruled: (1.Slaves are not citizens and have no right sue 2.The U.S. government cannot take away property, and slaves were considered property.)
4. This ruling encouraged Southern slave owners
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*Economy: based on shipbuilding, commerce, and factories
*Climate: Shorter growing season and rocky soil which kept them from growing cash crops
*Slavery: Emancipated (freed) slaves because they did not need them
*Education: Public education was a strong tradition
*Population: Large populations
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*Economy: based on agriculture (farming) and cash crops
*Climate: Temperate climate with fertile soil good for growing cash crops
*Slavery: Depended on slavery to support their way of life
*Education: Limited public education; education was a privilege for whites
*Population: Smaller populations
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*Publisher of an abolitionist newspaper called The Liberator
*His newspaper was banned in the South
*Helped form the American Anti-Slavery Society
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*Taught himself to read and write while he was a slave
*Escaped slavery and became an eloquent spokesman for the abolitionist movement
*Published an anti-slavery newspaper known as The North Star
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*Escaped slave who became a successful conductor of the Underground Railroad
* Known as the “Moses” of her people
*Led more than 300 slaves out of the South
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*First African American woman to gain recognition as an anti-slavery speaker
*Born as a slave in NY but was freed through gradual emancipation
*Appointed by Lincoln as a counselor to the freedmen in Washington
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*Led a raid of U.S. arsenal at Harper’s Ferry in VA
*Captured, tried, found guilty of treason, and hanged
*Raised great fear among Southerners and further divided North and South
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*Author of the book Uncle Tom’s Cabin
*Book became bestseller and revealed cruelty of slavery to Northerners
*Often disagreed with Lincoln and his need to postpone freeing the slaves
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