Paulson 7 Vocabulary September 10-14, 2018
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- Q1Harriet Beecher Stowe's widely read novel that dramatized the horrors of slavery. It heightened Northern support for abolition and escalated the sectional conflict.Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852)30s
- Q2Willfully causing pain or suffering to others, or feeling no concern about it.cruel30s
- Q3The killing or wounding of people, usually during fighting or a war.bloodshed30s
- Q4To find fault with.criticize30s
- Q5A particular area of land.territory30s
- Q6Abolitionist who was hanged after leading an unsuccessful raid at Harper's Ferry, Virginia (1800-1858)John Brown30s
- Q7To show approval.applaud30s
- Q8A Missouri slave sued for his freedom, claiming that his four year stay in the northern portion of the Louisiana Territory made free. The U.S, Supreme Court decided he couldn't sue in federal court because he was property, not a citizen.Dred Scott Decision30s
- Q9John Brown plans to start a slave uprising, so he steals weapons at Harper's Ferry and is stopped by U.S. Marines where he is captured.Harper's Ferry Raid30s
- Q1016th President of the United States saved the Union during the Civil War and emancipated the slaves; was assassinated at Ford's Theater in Washington, D.C.Abraham Lincoln30s
- Q11The crime of betraying one's country.treason30s
- Q12The southern states that seceded from the United States in 1861.Confederate States of America30s
- Q13Confederate general who had opposed secession but did not believe the Union should be held together by force.Robert E. Lee30s
- Q14A war measure that isolates some area of importance to the enemy.blockade30s
- Q15A slave state that remained in the Union during the Civil War (Maryland, Delaware, Missouri, Kentucky, and West Virginia)border state30s