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Specified that slavery should be prohibited in any lands that might be aquired from Mexico
What is William Proviso
100
Proposed amendments to protect slavery
What is John Crittenden
100
Senator from Kentucky who tried to save the Union by proposing a last minute compromise
What is John Crittenden
100
Ruled on the Dred Scott decision
What is Roger B. Taney
100
A person could be fined or imprisoned for aiding fugitives
What is Fugitive Slave Act
200
Won the presidental election of 1860
What is John C. Calhoun
200
Repealed the Missouri Compromise
What is Kansas-Nebraska Act
200
Divided the nation even more
What is Dred Scott case
200
Won the 1848 presidental election
What is Zachary Taylor
200
Was the main issue of the election of 1844
What is Texas
300
Was the main topic of the Lincoln-Douglas debates
What is Slavery
300
Stephen Douglas's response to slavery
What is Freeport Doctrine
300
In the congressional election of 1858, the Senate race in which state was the center of national attention
What is Illinois
300
Opponent of Abraham Lincoln
What is Stephen A. Douglas
300
Southerners justified secession with the theory of
What is States Rights
400
Progressed from the enforcement of the Fugitive Act
What is More anger in the north
400
wrote essay "Civil Disobedience"
What is Henry David Thoreau
400
Became president in 1853
What is Franklin Pierce
400
Violent abolitionist
What is John Brown
400
First attack of the Civil War
What is Fort Sumter
500
The admission of Missouri as a slave state was controversial in the Senate because
What is it would upset the balance
500
Henry Clay's Plan
What is Missouri Compromise
500
Endorsed the Wilmot Proviso
What is Free Soil Party
500
Douglas's stand the people could exclude slavery by refusing to pass laws protecting slaveholders rights
What is Freeport Doctrine
500
President of the Confederacy
What is Jefferson Davis
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