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Chapter 10, Lesson 2

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  • What was the effect of the Dred Scott decision on the nation?
    It made the disagreements over slavery worse and further divided the nation.
  • Who was the woman who Abraham Lincoln referred to as "the little lady who started the big war?"
    Harriet Beecher Stowe
  • These people were a constant danger on the Underground Railroad.
    slave catchers
  • What was the name of the woman who "traveled" up and down the land to preach, speaking out against slavery?
    Sojourner Truth
  • What do we call the people who led the runaway slaves from one hiding place to another, usually at night?
    conductors
  • What did Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott fight for?
    equality for all Americans (women's rights)
  • Who was the best-known conductor on the Underground Railroad?
    Harriet Tubman
  • Who was the man who led an attack on farmers?
    Nat Turner
  • Who was the white Northerner who founded the American Anti-Slavery Society?
    William Lloyd Garrison
  • Did Dred Scott win or lose his case?
    He lost.
  • Why did Dred Scott take his case to court?
    He argued that since he once lived on free land (Illinois), he should be granted his freedom.
  • What did Harriet Beecher Stowe write?
    Uncle Tom's Cabin
  • What was the Underground Railroad?
    a system of secret escape routes that led slaves to free lands
  • Chief Justice Roger B. Taney said that slaves were not American citizens, and should actually just be considered people's _____________.
    property
  • What did Samuel Cornish and John Russwurm start?
    Freedom's Journal, the first newspaper owned and written by African-Americans
  • This former slave became famous for his writings and speeches against slavery.
    Frederick Douglass
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