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Slavery and the Prelude to War: Part II
U.S. and Virginia History
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Slave REsistance 1831 – Southampton, Virginia
_________________________________________ ________– resulted in the death of 57 whites (including women and children) The rebellion is put down, resulting in the punishment of slaves and free blacks throughout the South – ___________________ _______________
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Abolitionist Movement
The abolitionist movement continued to grow in the North during the 1800s _______________ – a person who favors the abolishment of slavery _____________________– a Massachusetts man who owned an abolitionist newspaper called __________________ Garrison, like many northern abolitionists, saw slavery as a ______________________________
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Abolitionist movement
New Englander _______________________ wrote a novel titled ____________________ The novel inflamed and __________________ ____________________________with its realistic depiction of slavery Southerners were angered at the “unfair” representation of slave owners and began to _______________________________ ___________________
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Compromise of 1850 New territory is claimed from Mexico after the Mexican-American War – slave or free? _________________________________, but the rest of the territories are free to decide for themselves – _____________________________ ________________________________________– allowing slave owners to pursue runaway slaves in northern states
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Kansas-Nebraska Act (1854)
Repealed the Missouri Compromise line and gave the ___________________________ _________________________________________ __________________ This produced much fighting between the _________________________________________ _____________________________ The territory became known as ___________ _______________ due to the number of deaths
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Dred Scott Decision Ruled that Dred Scott, a slave, could not sue a white person because he was not a citizen _________________________________________ _________________________________________ Huge loss for northern abolitionists and African-Americans around the country
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