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- 1. this popular novel written by Harriet Beecher Stowe showed the emotional and physical harms of slavery.
- 5. He wrote an autobiography describing the horrors of slavery and believed education was key to ending slavery.
- 6. This was one of the major social causes of the Civil War.
- 7. When this president was elected to office in 1860, Southern states began seceding from the union.
- 10. William Lloyd Garrison, who believed slavery was a sin, published an abolitionist newspaper called the ______.
- 11. This abolitionist challenged ideas about race and gender.
- 12. In the Compromise of 1850 this state was added to the union as a free state.
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- 2. In this compromise, Henry Clay proposed drawing a line across the Louisiana Purchase at the 36° 30’ latitude allowing states below the line to be slave states and states above the line would be free.
- 3. This group of people fought to end slavery.
- 4. After the signing of the Kansas-Nebraska Act there was an outbreak of violence between anti-slavery and pro-slavery activists in this state.
- 8. _______________ Sovereignty means states should have the right to make their own choices about laws including whether to allow slavery.
- 9. The economy of the South was dependent on __________ while the North was more industrialized.