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The admission of Missouri as a slave state was controversial in the Senate because...
it would upset the balance
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What plan specifified that slavery should be prohibited in any lands that might be acquired from Mexico?
Wilmot Proviso
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After the Lincoln-Douglas debates, who won the election to the seat of U.S. Senator from Illinois?
Steohen A. Douglas
100
Who ruled on the Dred Scott decision?
Roger B. Taney
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Opponent of Abraham Lincoln
Stephen A. Douglas
200
Enforcement of the Fugitive Act led to...
more anger in the North
200
What was the first territory to shed blood in a cvil war over slavery?
Kansas
200
Who made the statement about secession in his Inaugural Address?
Abraham Lincoln
200
What was Stephen Douglas's response to slavery?
Freeport Doctrine
200
First attack of the civil war
Fort Sumter
300
Stephen A. Douglas proposed letting the people decide about slavery through...
Popular sovereignty
300
What Supreme Court decision divided the nation even more?
Dred Scott case
300
Who won the 1848 presidential election?
Zachary Taylor
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Who proposed the Missouri Compromise?
Henry Clay
300
president of the Confederacy
Jefferson Davis
400
The main topic of the Lincoln-Douglas debates was...
slavery
400
The 1860 presidential candidate whose name did not appear on the ballot in most Southern states was...
qabraham Linclon
400
Henry Clay's plan
Compromise of 1850
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Formed on Febraury 4th, 1861
Confederacy
400
Repealed the Missouri Compromise
Kansas-Nebraska Act
500
Southerners justifiefd secession with the theory of...
states' rights
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Who was the senator from Kentucky who tried to save the Union by proposing a last-minute compromise?
John Crittenden
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Who wrote "Civil Disobedience?"
Henry david Thoreau
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Who was a violent abolitionist?
John Brown
500
Proposed amendemnts to protect slavery
John Crittenden
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