What was the compromise that was repealed by the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
Missouri Compromise
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What is the Compromise of 1850?
California came to the US as a free state, but the Fugitive Slave Law was better enforced.
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What is nullification?
To declare something invalid
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Who is Alexander Stephens?
The vice president of the confederacy of the United States
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Who is Dred Scott?
A slave that sued his master after being taken to a free state and then forced back into a slave state.
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Georgia kept the country together when other southern states wanted to secede.(Hint: Superman)
What was The Georgia Platform?
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What is the Missouri Compromise?
Missouri was allowed to enter the Union as a slave state, but Maine was a free state. Congress forbade slavery north of the 36˚ 30’ parallel (Missouri's southern border)
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What is States Rights?
cause of the civil war that argued how much power states can have
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What was coincidental about Alexander Stephens serving as the vice-president of the Confederacy?
He argued that the South should not secede, but once they did, he became the vice-president of the confederacy.
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Why was it surprising when Abraham Lincoln won the election of 1860?
Because he was the only person to win presidency with votes from only one half of the country.
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What did the Kansas-Nebraska Act do?
The Kansas-Nebraska Act implemented popular sovereignty and it angered the North.
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Why did the South dislike Missouri entering the United States as a free state?
There would have been an unbalance in the number of slave states and free states.
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What was the name of the practice in which owning other people happened?
Slavery
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What was the compromise and the act that Alexander Stephens supported?
Compromise of 1850 and the Kansas-Nebraska Act
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Who opposed Lincoln in the election of 1860?
John C. Breckinridge
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Who was the man who proposed this idea?
Stephen A. Douglas
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What was the Fugitive Slave Act?
An act which guaranteed the return of any runaway slaves if they were caught in the North
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How did states right help cause the civil war?
Answers may vary
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What was Alexander Stephens opinion on slavery and the dissolution of the Union?
He defended slavery, but he opposed the dissolution of the Union.
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Who did Dred Scott sue?
John Emerson
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When was the Kansas-Nebraska Act passed?
May 30, 1854
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Where did the slaves have to go when the Fugitive Slave Act was better enforced?
Canada
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What was the tactic Abraham Lincoln used to discourage European nations from helping the South and this tactic involved slavery?