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| How did Alex Haley come to know the story, going back six generations, of those in his family? |
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| He lived in a multigeneration household and every night the older women in the family would tell stories that had been passed down each generation through oral history. |
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| What was one way that Kunta Kinte proved himself to be a rebel, resisting the slavery system? |
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| Kunta Kinte keeps his identity and name of Kunta Kinte rather than forgetting where he came from or changing his name to Toby. |
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| Sally Hemings was Thomas Jefferson's slave whom he was with for 38 years and bore him 7 children. She was also Martha's step sister. She and Jefferson never married because Martha said on her deathbed for Jefferson not to remarry. |
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| Choose two of Sally's children and briefly explain how they lived their lives as adults. |
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| Beverly was able to pass as a white man so he went to Washington and married a white woman in Maryland. Their daughter was never known to have any colored blood. Harriet married a white man and moved to Ohio, where she passed as a white woman and raised a family of children. |
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| How do we know, in detail, the story of Harriet Jacobs? |
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| She wrote her own book as an autobiography after Lincoln was elected President. She was taught to read and write by her kind mistress. |
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Where did Harriet Jacobs hide for seven years? Why did Harriet go into hiding? |
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| She lived in her grandmother's attic that was only 9 ft. long and 3 ft. high. She went into hiding because her domestic situation had become unbearable and Dr. Norcom had threatened to sell her children if she didn't accept his sexual advances. |
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| With "the separation of the spheres," family members assumed new roles. What were these new responsibilities for the husbands and for the wives? |
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New responsibilites for women were to take care of the children and play the housewife while men were part-time fathers and breadwinners. Women were devalued. |
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| What was the new view of the "home" in the 1800's? |
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| Before, where you lived was where you worked, but by the 1800s there was a separation of spheres. The women would stay at home wit the children and men at work. |
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| What was one aspect of "the private Lincoln" that surprised you and why? |
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| I was surprised that Lincoln's father did not like his enthusiasm for learning because in today's society, a desire for education is seen as respectable, but Lincoln's father saw it as a waste of time by not working in the fields. |
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| Why did the South believe that the U.S. Constitution protected slavery? |
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The 5th Amendment protects property so the South believed that they have legal right to take their property anywhere. |
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| What were the two political questions of the pre-Civil War decades that the North and the South disagreed on? |
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1.Where is the power/ States or the Federal Government? Who has more? 2.Whas is the nature of the Union created in Philadelphia? Is it a permanent union or can you UNjoin it? |
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| What fears did the South and North have during the 1850's that made each side more paranoid as the decade progressed? |
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| The South feared that the slaves would rebel b/c of growing abolitionist movements and the slave power consipracy. |
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| Southern states believed that they had seceded by following a Constituion process. What was that process? |
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Natural Rights Philosophy -Born with natural rights such as property -Gov't exists to protect those rights
-If Gov't fails to protect those rights, the people can change the law. |
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Why is Lincoln seen as our greatest president? |
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Unintentionally abolishes slavery. He understood that the root cause of the war was slavery and in order to end the war, slavery needed to end as well. |
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| When the Civil War began in the spring of 1861, what were two advantages the North had and what were two advantages the South had? (odds favoring) |
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The North had the advantage of supplies & guns b/c 90% of industry was located in the North. Northern population is 21 million, Southern population is 6 million, not coutning slaves. South is outnumbered on the battlefield 10-1. Advantages for the South -more experienced officers/generals and experience with land. All they had to do was defend, not invade. |
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| What were two reasons why Lincoln had to move slowly on abolition? |
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| Lincoln considers popular opinion on war FOR abolition. Northerners are still racist and considers border states where they still have slavery, and if Lincoln moes too fast, they might not favor him for presidency next term. Needs popular opinion for election. |
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| What was so special about Owen Flaherty, a soldier in the Civil War? |
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| Owen Flaherty was only one of many soldiers returning home who suffered from combat PTSD (Post Traumatic Stress Disorder) and the war never ended for him. |
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What is the estimated number of military deaths, North and South combined, in the Civil War? What percentage of those dead could not be identified? |
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| 620,000 and 40% could not be identified. |
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| What were two childhood memories Elizabeth Stanton recalled in her memoir that seemed to mark her as a feminist from her early years? |
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1. She was about to rip out pages from her father's books and her father told her that when she got older that she could maybe change the law and how it treats women. 2. While attending college, Stanton gets involved in abolitionist movement. |
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| What happened to Elizabeth Cady Stanton at the London Convention in 1840? How did that event lead to her calling the Seceneca Falls Convention in 1848? |
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| Elizabeth was excited to attend the convention with her husband but still felt discriminated when she and the rest of the women were seated in the last pew behind a black curtain. |
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| At Seneca Falls, Stanton adapted what document to advocate equal rights for women? |
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| Declaration of Sentiments |
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| As detailed by Stanton at Seneca Falls, what were four rights women did not possess in 1848? |
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1. property 2. education 3. vote 4. wages |
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| What did the Supreme Court say in the Dred Scott case about black citizenship rights? |
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| That slaves are property and therefore can not have citizenship rights. |
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| Why did the election of a Republican president in 1860 trigger secession? |
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| Because Republicans were for the abolition of slavery and the South threatened beforehand that if a Republican was elected president then they would seceed. |
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| What decision did Lincoln make in April of 1861 regarding Fort Sumter? |
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| Lincoln decided to send men to deliver food and supplies to the soldiers still in Fort Sumter with no intentions of fighting, but the Confederates responded by attacking. |
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| What is the significance in the two dates when the Emancipation Proclamation was issued (September 1862) and when it was effective (January 1863)? |
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Although the proclamation was issued in September 1862, Lincoln allowed the Confederate states to re-join the Union before January 1863 when slaves in that territory would be freed. |
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| Geographically, the Emancipation Proclamation freed the slaves in what areas? |
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| It declared free only those slaves living in states not under Union control. |
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| How did the federal government unequivocally abolish slavery? |
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| Required states that previously seceded to ratify the 13th Amendment before returning to the Union. |
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| For the Civil War, what is meant by the phrase "a soldier's heart"? |
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| Soldier's dealing with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder when returning home. |
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