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Flashcards by Michael Sessions, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by Michael Sessions
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| Question | Answer |
| What were the dates of the American Civil War? | 1861-1865 |
| Abraham Lincoln gave his 'A new birth of freedom' speech at the Battle of Gettysburg. What year was this? | 1863 |
| A modern, capitalist business system where anybody could set up a business and make profits. North or South? | North |
| A semi-modern plantation system dominated by a few powerful slave holders. North or South? | South |
| Mostly agriculture dominated by large plantation; little industry. North or South? | South |
| Made money through the work of paid employees. North or South? | North |
| Made money through the work or slave labour. North or South? | South |
| Mixed economy: Farming, small businesses and factories. North or South? | North |
| Believed slavery was unfair competition for business and factory owners. North or South | North |
| Believed slavery was natural and that modern factories and capitalists made whites workers into 'wage slaves'. North or South? | South |
| Who is an abolitionist? | Somebody who believes slavery is morally wrong and wants to ban it. |
| Which paper did that spread abolitionist views was founded in 1831? | The Liberator |
| Who found the abolitionist newspaper The Liberator? | William Lloyd Garrison |
| When was the National Anti-Slavery Society formed? | 1838 |
| Which escaped slave we learnt about gave lectures and wrote articles about the nature of life for slaves in the South? | Frederick Douglass |
| Which Female abolitionist and freed slave helped thousands of slaves to escape from the south? | Harriet Tubman |
| What do we call the network of trails and hideouts that slaves used to escape from slavery? | The Underground Railroad |
| In 1851 Harriet Beecher-Stowe published which book that laid bare the horrors of slavery? | Uncle Tom's Cabin |
| In which year did Henry Clay suggest his compromise? | 1850 |
| What did Clay's compromise say should happen to California? | It should enter the Union as a free(non-slave state) |
| Clay's compromise said what should be banned from the capital, Washington DC? | The sale of salves |
| According to Clay's compromise what should happen in territories like New Mexico and Utah? | They should be allowed to decided fro themselves if they wanted slavery |
| Clay also wanted all states and het national government to a fugitive Slave Act. What was this? | The act would make a legal duty to return escaped slaves to their holders |
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