The Fugitive Slave Act
"Bleeding Kansas"
Violence in Congress
Election of 1856
The Election of 1860
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1850.
What year was the Fugitive Slave Act?
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Proslavery and antislavery settlers.
Who rushed to the Kansas territory?
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1856.
What year was violence spreading in Kansas?
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James Buchanan.
Who did the democrats nominate to run for the presidency?
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Abraham Lincoln
Who was elected president?
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Recapture the run away slaves.
What were slave owners allowed to do?
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To vote for the territorial legislature.
What did the proslavery and antislavery steelers do in the Kansas territory?
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Preston Brooks
Who attacked Sumner to defend Butler and the South.
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The Kansas-Nebraska Act.
What did Buchanan say little of?
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Lincoln and Douglas.
Who were the 2 candinates?
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They had to face moral choices.
What happened to the North?
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They made their own government.
What did antislavery steelers do after they boycotted the official government?
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Late May.
When did senator Charles Sumner deliver a speech attacking the proslavery forces in Kansas?
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Southerns.
Who did Buchanan appeal to?
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The South.
Who didn't trust Lincoln?
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Jury trials.
What were slaves not allowed to hold?
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To avenge the sack of Lawrence.
Why did John Brown and 7 other men go to the cabins of several of his proslavery neighbors and murder 5 people for?
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He made fun of South Carolinas senator.
What did Sumner do to make Brooks hit him with a cane?
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The Republican Party.
What is a major force of the North?
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To compromise.
What did Lincoln and people NOT want?
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They considered slaves to be property.
Why did the Southerners feel that the Fugitive Slave Act was justified?
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May.
In what month did proslavery mobs attack the town of Lawrence, Kansas?
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Preston Brooks.
Who did the Southerners cheer for?
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It was spilt over slavery.
What happened to The Nation?
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It oppossed expansion in terrorities.
What did The Election of 1860 do?
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