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A paradox is a contradiction. Why was slavery a paradox in the United
States even though it had existed in some parts of the world for
thousands of years? |
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| Although slavery had existed for thousands of years it went against the ideal that America was founded upon, all men are created equal |
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| Vice president and senator from South Carolina who wanted to prove that slavery was necessary. |
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| A tax or duty on goods brought from a foreign nation. |
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| Abolitionist leader who began publishing The Liberator |
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The view that the concerns of one region are more important
than the concerns of the nation as a whole. |
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| The idea that the government was formed by and for the states |
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A westerner, he spent his life working to keep the nation
together, earning the nickname the “great compromiser." |
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| A person with distinguished skill and power as a public speaker |
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| Senator from Massachusetts who represented the North but compromised in order to protect the Union. |
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The colonization movement was an attempt to send
slaves from the United States to Africa to settle there
permanently as free people. |
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Most slaves in the United States in the mid-1800s wanted
to return to Africa because they had been born there and
knew they would be happy there. |
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| Eli Whitney’s invention of the cotton gin resulted in |
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A) a demand for more slaves to work the new cotton fields of the western South.
B) huge profi ts from new kinds of cotton grown in new places.
C) the birth of the “New South,” where cotton was king.
ALL OF THE ABOVE |
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| The Missouri Compromise was written in order to |
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| maintain a balance in the Senate between slave and free states. |
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The basic human rights of slaves in the United States were denied
by |
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A) buying and selling individuals.
B) breaking up families.
C) denying them political rights and freedoms.
ALL OF THE ABOVE |
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| Wealth in the “Old South” was based on |
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| While the North built more and more factories, the South |
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| remained agricultural and traditional. |
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| Daniel Webster debated Senator Robert Young Hayne about |
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| the power of states’ rights vs. the Constitution |
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Describe the life of young Frederick Douglass and some of the causes
that he worked for. |
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Frederick Douglass was born a slave. He was taught how to read.
He fought to get the vote for blacks and women. Wanted better treatment for Chinese and Native americans. He worked for better schools for all. |
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