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History of the Americas
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- What is an estate on which crops such as coffee, sugar, and tobacco are cultivated by resident labor?
- What was the highest rate of death in the travel from Africa to America?
- Slaves that had free time after completed tasks.
- Compromise that would allow settlers in new territories to decide whether it was a free or slave state.
- Political party based on the ideal of ending slavery.
- The states that favored the state gov't used what part of the Constitution to support this?
- The states that favored national gov't used what part of the Constitution to support this?
- Who was the violent radical abolitionist fighting in Kansas?
- Other than the northern states, where were some other locations slaves tried to escape to?
- The growth of what crop in the south caused economic growth?
- What escaped slave repeatedly returned to the south to help other slaves escape?
- In the election of 1860 who was the northern democrat candidate?
- T/F The north had more farming than the south?
- Someone who opposed slavery and wanted to end the practice completely.
- What was the name given to the Northern States?
- The act whereby a state withdraws itself from the Union.
- What was the network of people who aided runaway slaves to reach the north and other areas to gain freedom?
- In the election of 1860 who was the republican candidate?
- Belonged to the government and was a federal fort and was a first test for Lincoln as president to see if he could control it by sending supplies to it.
- In the election of 1860 who was the Constitutional Unionist candidate?