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The South & Breaking Apart
Test A
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History
8th Grade
05/02/2014

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2 ex: of how slaves resisted
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1.Set fire to barns
2.Brake tools
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3 ex: of slave codes
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1.Illigal to read/write

2.Didn't recognize slave marriages

3.Can't testify against whites in court

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3 main ideas from the Compromise of 1850
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1.Outlawed slave trade in D.C.

2.States decided themselves if they were a slave state or not

3.Fugitive slave act

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3 differnet jobs of slaves had in the south
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1.Blacksmith

2.House Slaves

3.Field Worker

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Life of free African Americans living in the south
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1.Low paying jobs

2.Could'nt vote

3.Purchased, born or granted freedom

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why did white northerners oppose abolition
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upset economy
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reasons for Kansas-Nebraska territories
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wanted a rail road that took a northern rout
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Harpers Ferry (John Brown)
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wanted to start slave uprising and over throw owners. He failed and got killed
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