Slavery Divides the Nation Flashcard

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What was the main crop that the Southern economy and way of life was based on?

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Cotton

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What did the Wilmot Proviso propose?

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To outlaw slavery in new American territories

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What was the main goal of the Free-Soil Party?

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To resist the aggressions of the slave power

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Who won the election of 1848 with a slim majority in both northern and southern states?

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Zachary Taylor

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What did the Compromise of 1850 include? Options: Expansion of slavery in Washington, D.C., Enactment of a stricter fugitive slave law, Prohibition of the cotton trade, Admission of Texas as a free state

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Enactment of a stricter fugitive slave law

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What did the new Fugitive Slave Act require citizens to do?

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Catch and return runaway enslaved people

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What did the personal liberty laws passed by some northern states do?

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Nullify the Fugitive Slave Act

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What was the Underground Railroad?

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A network of secret hiding places for fugitive slaves.

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Who wrote the powerful condemnation of slavery, 'Uncle Tom's Cabin'?

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Harriet Beecher Stowe

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What did Samuel Adolphus Cartwright claim to have discovered?

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A disease called Drapetomania that caused slaves to flee