Game Show

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Game Show
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Sponsor of the Kansas-Nebraska Act

• Stephen Douglas
• Why didnt Douglas think slavery would ever take
  root in Kansas or Nebraska?
• Climate not suited to cotton

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Provide the books name, author, and the argument
shown here

• You (industrialist) with the command over labor
  which your capital gives you, are a slave owner
  a master without the obligation of a master.
  They who work for you, who create your income are
  slaves, without the rights of slaves. Slaves
  without masters!

Cannibals All by George Fitzhugh. Slaveowners
treat their slaves better than factory-owners
treat their workers.
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Cause Effect
C
A
B
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Who is this man?
John Brown

• Name 2 places he did his infamous work
• Potawatamie Creek, Kansas
• Harpers Ferry, Virginia

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• The law that inspired the creation of the
  Republican Party
• Kansas-Nebraska Act

• The partys main belief
• Against the SPREAD of slavery

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• The Southern Founding Fathers thought slavery was
  a necessary evil that would one day disappear.
  Why did Antebellum Southerners decide slavery was
  a moral institution that should not die?

• The cotton gin made cotton production very
  profitable, but cotton required at lot of farm
  labor

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• Who is the man being beaten?
• Why?

Charles Sumner
In Sumners The Crime Against Kansas he
insulted the cousin of his attacker, Preston
Brooks
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Challenged Stephen Douglas to a series of
debates, in which he took a strong stand against
the expansion of slavery

• What did Abraham Lincoln do during his Senate
  race that launched him to national prominence?

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True/False
T

• 1.) ___The Kansas-Nebraska Act invalidated the
  Missouri Compromise.
• 2.)___ After it became open to slavery by popular
  sovereignty thousands of slaves were taken into
  Kansas
• 3.) ___Part of the Compromise of 1850 was
  outlawing the existence of slavery in Washington
  D.C.

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By 1860, there were only 2 slaves in all of Kansas
F
Slave trade only was outlawed
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True or False?Slave family life was unstable
b/c. .

• 1.)___Families were separated by slave auctions.
• 2.) __Slave owners often killed slaves as
  punishment
• 3.)___Sick injured slaves were forced to leave
  the plantation.

T
F
F
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Why did Kansas Territory have 2 capitals? What
were they?

• Because its territorial elections were won by
  pro-slavery forces unfairly, there were two
  capitals Topeka, the renegade anti-slavery
  capital, and Lecompton, the pro-slavery capital
  whose leaders had gained power through voter
  fraud.

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• The main author of the Compromise of 1850.

• Henry Clay

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The Dred Scot decision made slavery legal in what
states and territories
All of them (In the Dred Scot decision it was
decided that slavery was legal wherever it
existed.)
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• Why is James Buchanan usually rated as the worst
  President in US History?

• Even though he was a Northerner, he tried to
  appease the South (encouraging Dred Scott
  decision supporting Lecompton Constitution) in
  order to prevent secession, which he failed to
  do. He said he opposed secession but did nothing
  to stop it.

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Wrote the Dred Scot Decision

• Roger Taney

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Which part of the Compromise of 1850 caused the
most tension between North and South. Why?
FUGITIVE SLAVE ACT North saw violent acts of
slave catching South saw the North try to not
enforce it
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What event triggered Secession?

• The Election of Abraham Lincoln

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Where were the first shots in the Civil War fired?

• Ft. Sumter

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The great majority of Southerners (about 75)
owned how many slaves?
ZERO the majority of Southerners owned no slaves
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According to the Dred Scott Decision(check those
that apply)

• 1.___African-Americans who ran away to the North
  deserved to sue for their freedom in Court.
• 2.___Blacks could never be citizens
• 3.___Slavery could only be outlawed by a state if
  the majority of people there voted to outlaw it
• 4.___Slavery was legal everywhere, no matter what
  the voters thought.

X
X
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True/False
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• 1.)___Abraham Lincoln promised that he would
  abolish slavery.
• 2.) ___Abraham Lincoln pointed out to Stephen
  Douglas that popular sovereignty and the
  decisions made in the Dred Scot case could not
  co-exist.

He promised he would NOT abolish slavery where it
existed
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Dred Scott decision said slavery could exist
anywhere it existed, but according to popular
sovereignty, slavery could be outlawed if a
states population wanted to outlaw it.
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Which territories were opened to slavery by the
Compromise of 1850 and the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
1850 D (Utah) E(New Mexico) KS-NB Act
A(Nebraska) B(Kansas)
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Who is it?

• In 1828, he began receiving signs that he was
  Gods divine instrument, destined to bring
  slavery to its bloody end. In 1831, he exacted
  that revenge upon the heads of fifty-five white
  Virginians.

NAT TURNER
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KANSAS True/False
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• 1.)___Most people in Kansas in the 1860s opposed
  slavery
• 2.)___The reason that the first Kansas election
  showed a majority favored slavery was that
  slavery supporters cheated.

T
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What is this cartoon trying to say?
The Negro in his own country
The Negro in America
Slavery is good because it supposedly civilizes
Africans
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Who is this?

• When her sister-in-law told her, If I could use
  a pen as you, I would write something that would
  let the whole nation feel what an accursed thing
  slavery is, this little lady who caused the
  great war wrote a novel about a slave who runs
  away to prevent being separated from her child at
  auction.

Harriet Beecher Stowe
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Which best describes the prevailing Northern
sentiment in the 1850s?

• A.) Like black people, dislike slavery
• B.) Like slavery, dislike blacks
• C.) Dislike blacks and slavery
• D.) Like slavery and blacks

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List 3 slave states that did not seceded from
the Union
Q Missouri R Kentucky T Maryland U- Delaware
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List in alphabetical order The letters indicating
the First seven states to secede From the Union
before Fort Sumter
F,G,H,I,J,K,L
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List the 4 states that seceded after Fort Sumter
M-Arkansas N-Tennessee O-North Carolina P-Virginia