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Republican Candidate in 1856
Who is John C Fremont?
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Southerners justified secession with the theory of this...
What is states' rights?
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Ruled on the Dred Scott decision.
Who is Roger B. Taney?
100
Formed on February 4, 1861
What is the Confederacy?
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The main topic of the Lincoln-Douglas debates was this.
What is slavery?
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president of the Confederacy.
Who is Jefferson Davis?
200
According to this, a person could be fined or imprisoned for aiding fugitives.
What is the Fugitive Slave Act?
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He was a violent abolitionist.
Who is John Brown?
200
First attack of the Civil War.
What is Fort Sumter?
200
Henry Clay's compromise became known as this.
What is the Missouri Compromise?
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Opponent of Abraham Lincoln.
Who is Stephen A. Douglas?
300
Douglas's stand that people could exclude slavery by refusing to pass laws protecting slaveholders' rights came to known as this.
What is the Freeport Doctrine.
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Wrote the essay "Civil Disobedience"
Who is Henry David Thoreau?
300
letting people decide
What is popular sovereignty?
300
The main issue in the election of 1844 was the annexation of this state.
What is Texas?
400
He proposed the Missouri Compromise.
Who is Henry Clay?
400
The admission of Missouri as a slave state was controversial in the Senate because
What is it would upset the balance.
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He proposed amendments to protect slavery.
Who is John Crittenden?
400
This repealed the Missouri Compromise.
What is the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
400
Franklin Pierce became this in 1853?
What is president?
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Won the 1848 presidential election.
Who is Zachary Taylor?
500
This plan specified that slavery should be prohibited in any lands that might be acquired from Mexico.
What is Wilmot Proviso?
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He won the presidential election of 1860.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
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Stephen Douglas's response to slavery.
What is Freeport Doctrine?
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In the congressional election of 1858, the Senate race in which sate was the center of national attention?
What is Illinois?
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