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44 Cards in this Set
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What was the nugget regarding cotton?
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"Cotton is King"
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The southern government resembled a
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oligarchy
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Two notable men for their aristocratic ties in south?
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Calhoun and Davis
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Author who idealized southern society?
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Scott
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Mark Twain accused this British author of having a hand in starting the civil war by fighting for a sham civilization?
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Scott
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Nugget used to describe wasteful land usage
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land butchery
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"What a stupendous, what an incomprehensible machine is man!"
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TJ
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South stayed primarily what due to immigration in North?
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anglo-saxon
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Name for large southern mansions?
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Grecianillared Mansion
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What percent of slaveowners owned more than 50 slaves?
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2%
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"I do not see how a barbarous community and a civilized community can constitute a state. We must get rid of slavery or get rid of freedom"
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Emerson
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Nugget for nonslaveholding whites
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poor white trash
hillbillies crackers clay eaters |
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Many of them suffered from
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hookworm
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Whites took pride in
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racial superiority
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mountain whites saw the impending war as
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"a rich man's war but a poor man's fight"
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"Barberof Natchez" black owned several slaves
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Johnson
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Free blacks were almost a...
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third race
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Self educated black orator of rare power
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Douglass
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English established a ... to prevent trade of slaves
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West Africa Squadron
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Who was one slaveholder executed?
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Gordon
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Two common professions of Irishmen?
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tunnel blasting and swamp draining
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Some fecund females were promised freedom after
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they birthed 10 children
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Author of book that showed inhumanity of auctioning off families and spliting them apart
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Harriet Beecher Stowe Uncle Tom's Cabin
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Slaves were sent to this person so they would work harder
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breaker
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What was one devise used by slaveowners to keep slaves in check?
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collar with bell
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Southern marriage vow was
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"until death or distance do you part"
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type of preeching common in black churches
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responsorial
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Blacks free/slave had to have a
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tag that marked their skills if slave.. or just marked free
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Rebellion where 60 Virginians killed
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Nat Turner's Rebellion
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Ship that was full of blacks and driven ashore to Long Island
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Amistad
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Society formed for relocation of blacks
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American Colonization Society
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Relocated blacks sent to... capital was...
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Liberia, Monrovia
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Plantation on banks of Mississippi?
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Bellegrove
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British politician who freed blacks in West Indies?
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Wilberforce
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Person who founded "lane rebels" and wrote popular propaganda "American Slavery as It Is"
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Weld
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Antislavery newspaper, founded by?
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The Liberator, Garrison
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"abolition's golden trumpet" powerful Boston partician, prominent in American Antislavery Society
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Phillips
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Greatest black abolitionists
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Douglass
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Book and writer that advocated a bloody end to white supremacy
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Appeal to Colored Citizens of the World, Walker
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Slogan of French revolution?
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libery equality and fraternity
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First country to abolish slavery, last?
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Mexico, Yemen
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said the Constitution was "a covenant with death and an agreement with hell" and burned a copy of constitu
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Garrison
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Line the represented split of north/south
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mason dixon line
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Resolution that ended antislavery appeals
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Gag resolution
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