Study Guide: North / South
North (Union)
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Manufacturing was much more important in this
region
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Immigrants were settling in this region where
jobs were plentiful
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Most states in this region had ended slavery
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Even though most states ended slavery, prejudice
still remained
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President – Abraham Lincoln
South (Confederacy)
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Became wealthy because of cotton grown and
produced by slave labor
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4 million African Americans were forced to work
on cotton plantations
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It was a crime to teach a slave to read and
write
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Slave rebellions took place here
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President – Jefferson Davis
Nat Turner
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Led a slave rebellion in Virginia
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Killed 60 men, women, and children with his crew
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Hid in the woods for 6 weeks
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All the members of his group were hanged
Frederick Douglas
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Learned to read from slave owners wife and poor
white children
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Became a great abolitionist
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Escaped to the North as a sailor
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Wrote a bestselling book
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Became a friend to Lincoln
Underground Railroad
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Passengers – slaves
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Conductors – guides
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Stations – places slaves hid along the way
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Stationmasters – people who fed and sheltered the
slaves
Harriet Tubman
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Most famous conductor of the Underground
Railroad
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Nickname: Moses
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Traveled 90 miles to freedom
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Led over 300 slaves to freedom
Dred Scott Decision – said slaves were property
Secede – states leaving the Union
Missouri Compromise – divided the United States into free
and slave states
Confederate States of America – new country formed by states
that left the Union
Compromise of 1850 – California admitted as a free state,
Union follows the Fugitive Slave Law
Kansas-Nebraska Act – Kansas and Nebraska could decide for
themselves (slavery or not)
Abolitionist – someone who wants to end slavery
States’ rights – each state should be allowed to make its
own decisions
Underground Railroad – secret routes escaping slaves followed
to freedom
Fugitive Slave Law – required police in free states to
capture escaping slaves
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