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Native American Tribes/Blackfoot Notes
The sacrifice required the participants to dance for three or four days while fasting and abstaining from drink. Skewers that pierced the skin and muscles of the men were used as part of the self torture and they performed such feats as hanging from the ceiling of the lodge by the skewers. This self-inflicted pain reflected their desire to return something of themselves to nature in exchange for past and future benefits

http://www.utexas.edu/courses/wilson/ant304/projects/projects98/krochenskip/krochenskip.html

ABC Information for class

A – Anthony Burns Escaped slave from Virginia. He was captured by slave hunters in Boston. His arrest and the court’s decision ordered him back into slavery. Outraged abolitionists and ordinary Bostonians were hostile towards the enforcement of the Fugitive Slave Law of 1850. B – Bleeding Kansas A sequence of violent events involving anti-slavery and pro-slavery elements that took place in Kansas-Nebraska Territory and the western frontier towns of the U.S. State of Missouri. This was a leading event to the American Civil War. C – Confederate States of America This was the government that was formed by eleven southern states of the United States of American from 1861 to 1865. Seven states declared their independence from the United States before Abraham Lincoln was inaugurated as president. After this movement, more states followed this action after the start of the Civil War.

D – Dred Scott He was a slave that sued unsuccessfully for his freedom. His case was based on the fact that he and his family had lived when slaves in states where slavery was illegal. The court ruled 7-2 against him and said that he held no property and was not entitled to file suit in a federal court. This raised the issue of a slave’s freedom when he was in a free state. Congress did not said whether or not slaves were free once they stepped foot on northern soil. However this violated the Missouri Compromise because the court says that a whole slave owner could purchase slaves in a slave state and then go into a state where slavery was illegal and still have the rights to own their slave E – Election of 1860 The election of 1860 started the American Civil War. The nation had been divided because the issue of slavery and states rights came to attention and brought the Republican Part to power without support of the Southern State. The result of Lincoln’s victory was the secession of South Carolina and other states which was rejected as illegal by the President at the time James Buchanan. F – Fugitive Slave Act This was the Fugitive Slave Law and was passed by the United States congress on September 18, 1850. This was a conflict between the Southern slave states and the Northern Free States. There was a lack of help given by the Northerners to the Southern slave-owners and their agents. The southerners viewed this as the northerners support for abolitionism. Most northern states had abolished slavery within their borders and many northern officials did not want their local institutions to be used to support the enforcement of southern states’ slavery laws.

G – Horace Greeley He was an American editor of a newspaper, founder of the Republican Party and a reformer and politician. New York Tribune - most influential newspaper from the 1840s to the 1870s, it had established Greeley’s reputation as the greatest editor of his day. Thru this newspaper he promoted the Whig and Republican Party with an addition of antislavery and reforms. He was also

H – Harriet Tubman I – Impending Crisis of the south (book) J – Jefferson Davis K – Know-Nothing Party L – Lecompton Constitution M – Millard Fillmore N – Nativism O – Order of the Star Spangled Banner P – Personal Liberty R – Republican Convention of 1860 S – Stephen Douglas T – Roger B. Taney U – Underground Railroad

V – Voting pattern in the Election of 1860 W – Wilmot Proviso Z – Zachary Taylor