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  1. 4. Frederick Douglass was an American social reformer, abolitionist, orator, writer, and statesman.
  2. 6. A slave market is a place where slaves are bought and sold. These markets are a key phenomenon in the history of slavery.
  3. 7. Sojourner Truth was an American abolitionist and activist for African-American civil rights, women's rights, and alcohol temperance.
  4. 8. "King Cotton" refers to the powerful economic and political influence of cotton production in the pre-Civil War American South, where it was the dominant cash crop
  5. 10. Henry Clay was an American lawyer and statesman who represented Kentucky in both the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives
  6. 13. Harriet Tubman was an American abolitionist and social activist. After escaping slavery, Tubman made some 13 missions to rescue approximately 70 enslaved people
  7. 14. the fact or process of being set free from legal, social, or political restrictions; liberation.
  8. 17. The "free slaves balance" was a struggle for political parity in the U.S. Senate between free states and slave states
  9. 19. Popular sovereignty is the principle that the authority of a government is derived from the will of the people, who have the supreme power
  10. 21. Nullification is a legal theory asserting that individual states can void or refuse to enforce federal laws or court rulings they deem unconstitutional
  11. 22. Abolitionism was a global movement to end slavery
  12. 24. Dorothea Lynde Dix was a tireless advocate for the mentally ill and a leader in 19th century medical reform
  13. 25. Northwest Ordinance Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions End of Atlantic slave trade Missouri Compromise Tariff of Abominations
  14. 28. The temperance movement was a social and political campaign in the 19th and early 20th centuries that advocated for reducing or eliminating alcohol consumption. Driven by religious groups, social reformers
  15. 29. William Lloyd Garrison was an American abolitionist, journalist, and social reformer. He is best known for his widely read anti-slavery newspaper The Liberator
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  1. 1. The Monroe Doctrine, announced in 1823, was a U.S. policy opposing further European colonization and intervention in the Western Hemisphere. It consists of four key points: the U.S. would not interfere in European affairs
  2. 2. The Second Great Awakening was a Protestant religious revival during the late 18th to early 19th century in the United States
  3. 3. The "Underground Railroad" was a secret network of abolitionists, both black and white, who helped enslaved people escape from the South to freedom in the North or Canada
  4. 5. Slave catchers were individuals employed to track down and return escaped slaves to their owners
  5. 9. A cotton gin is a machine that separates cotton fibers from seeds
  6. 11. Chattel slavery is a system where enslaved individuals are treated as personal property, or "chattel," that can be bought, sold, inherited, and traded
  7. 12. Dred Scott v. Sandford, 60 U.S. 393, was a landmark decision of the United States Supreme Court that held the U.S. Constitution did not extend American citizenship to people of black African descent,
  8. 15. The Missouri Compromise of 1820 temporarily settled the national debate over slavery by admitting Missouri as a slave state and Maine as a free state
  9. 16. The Mexican–American War, also known in the United States as the Mexican War and in Mexico as the United States intervention in Mexico
  10. 18. John Brown was an American abolitionist in the decades preceding the Civil War
  11. 20. The Fugitive Slave Acts were two U.S. federal laws passed in 1793 and 1850 that allowed for the capture and return of runaway enslaved people to their owners, even if they had escaped to free states
  12. 23. Uncle Tom's Cabin; or, Life Among the Lowly is an anti-slavery novel by American author Harriet Beecher Stowe. Published in two volumes in 1852
  13. 26. a series of five laws passed by the U.S. Congress to settle disputes over slavery, including admitting California as a free state, enacting a stronger Fugitive Slave Act, banning the slave trade in Washington, D.C., organizing Utah and New Mexico territories, and resolving the Texas boundary and debt dispute
  14. 27. the action of withdrawing formally from membership of a federation or body, especially a political state.