blog discussions
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underground railroad- secret system for blacks to escape slavery
dreadscott dicision- the supreme court decided that black's weren't US citizens and allowed slavery
huge win for the south
uncle tom's cabin- book was against slavery opened people's eyes about the terrible things that happened to slaves
the missouri compromise- they wanted to keep the slave states and free states separated
allowed missouri to be a slave state.
any stated north of the 36/30 laditude line was free and anything south was a slave state with the exception of missouri
keeping them equal gives you more congree
compromise of 1850- wanted california to be a free state.
utah, new mexico they wanted the people to decide (popular sovientry)
if people saw slaves running away they had to report it to a police officer
the slave trade in the district of columbia
lincoln's election- the south thought he was going to abolish slavery
caused the south to leave forming the confederate states of america
last straw caused the outbreak of the civil war
18. advantages of the north and south of the civil war
north: had ab lincoln who was a very good leader
the population was bigger so the army was bigger
better railroad systems for easy transport
production was better
enable atvantage
south: bad roads which made it hard for the north to get to them
big coastline
knew where everything was
good military generals
produce food needed
had 8 military colleges
lincoln wanted to save the union
the south felt that they had to win
we will be having the test over these blog discussions tomorrow!
then we went over mr. bruns' expectations of our blogs
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