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- 4. :The ____________ was a series of networks and safehouses that guided slaves in their escape to freedom.
- 7. :a government act requiring people to serve in the military.
- 13. :this method of transportation quickly became the standard in the US during the 1850's. Mostly in the north.
- 14. :Pope Gregory XVI in 1839 issued an apostolic letter, __________________ condemning the slave trade.
- 15. :The Potato famine brought many thousands of immigrants to the US from Ireland. Most native born Americans looked at them with suspicion because of their poverty and Catholic faith.
- 18. : An executive order announced Sept 22, 1862. It stated that enslaved people in those states or parts of states still in rebellion as of January 1, 1863, would be declared free.
- 20. :The location where General Lee finally surrendered to General Grant April 9, 1865.
- 21. :_____________ was a book written by author, Harriot Beecher Stowe. It highlighted the evils of slavery and put the south in a vary negative light.
- 22. :is a type of written instruction that presidents use to work their will through the executive branch of government.
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- 1. :This was a person that believed that slavery should or would gradually fade away in the US. Most American Catholics held this view.
- 2. :The states of Kentucky, Delaware, Maryland, Missouri and (Later) West Virginia. During the civil war these proslavery states remained in the Union. What were they called?
- 3. :________________ was born a slave in Maryland, but he was taught how to read and write. He was an eloquent speaker and would travel the North giving speeches in the Antislavery movement.
- 5. :The battle of ________ was fought July 1-3, 1863 and was the turning point of the Civil War.
- 6. :The first shots of the civil war were fired at this location.
- 8. :The president of the US during the Civil War 1861-1865
- 9. : The idea that is the settlers themselves would decide whether the territories would admit slavery or not.
- 10. :The first of the Southern State to secede from the Union after the election of 1860.
- 11. :The president of the Confederate States of the America from 1860-1865.
- 12. :The name of the slave that challenged his master in court. His master brough him to a free territory, which he then argued meant that he was now free.
- 16. :The middle class of the south were called ______. They had relatively small farms and only a few if any slaves. Often working the fields the same as their slaves.
- 17. :Looms, powered by ____________. This was an invention of Mr. Lowell and Mr. Appleton. It revolutionized industry and made the Northern cities major industrial centers.
- 19. :This was a person who wished for slavery to be abolished immediatly