Compromise of 1850
The Election of 1860
The Dred Scott Decision
Bleeding Kansas
The Kansas Nebraska Act
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More effective fugitive slave laws
What type of law did Henry clay want?
100
Lincoln (Republican), Bell (Constitutional Union), Douglas (Democrat) and Breckenridge (Democrat)
Who were the four presidential candidates?
100
The Supreme Court issued a ruling that threw the country back into crisis.
What happened after two days after Buchanan became president?
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Antislavery and pro-slavery groups rushed to get people to Kansas.
What happened when both northern and southern politicians saw that a contest had began?
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The railroad going all the way to the pacific.
What made Douglas think to create the Kansas Nebraska Act?
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Free state
Henry Clay urged the congress to enter California as a ______ state.
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A party that did not have any political principles besides the U.S. Constitution.
What was the constitutional union party?
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He thought they had 'no rights which a white man was bound to respect.'
What did Rodger B. Taney think of African Americans?
200
March 1855
When were the elections held for Bleeding Kansas?
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Popular sovereighnty
What would the territories use to decide if they were going to be free of slaves.
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5 parts.
How many parts did Clay's proposal have?
300
1860; John C. Breckinridge
When did the democrats choose their presidential candidate, and who was it?
300
Roger B. Taney
Who was the chief justice at the time of the Dred Scott decision?
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200
How people were killed who followed the Pottawatomie Massacre?
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In January 1854
What day did Douglas introduce the Kansas Nebraska Act?
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Mexican Cession
Henry Clay called for the rest of the __________ to be organized as federal territory
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May
In mid-_____, the republicans held their convention in Chicago.
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States that people cannot be deprived of life, liberty or property without due process of law.
What was the fifth amendment?
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A massacre led by John Brown which led to the killing of pro slavery men.
What is the Pottawatomie Massacre?
400
May 30,1854
When did the president sign the law into a new act?
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slavery
Henry clay called for an end to the slave trade but not ______.
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180 votes.
Out of 183 electoral votes, how many did Lincoln win?
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He was sued for his freedom.
What happened to Dred Scott after he was spotted in free territory
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To ensure a pro-slavery victory.
Why did thousands of men cross the border from Missouri?
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A gross violation of a sacred pledge.
What did some of the northerners call the Kansas Nebraska Act?
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