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Term for allowing residents of a state to vote on the issue of slavery. Trash Ball- Double Your Points
popular sovereignty
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Political party formed due to the weak stance taken by the Whigs and Democrats to prevent the spread of slavery.
the Republican Party?
100
In 1854, Congress passed a law that allowed settlers in these territories to decide for themselves what to do about slavery, a concept known as popular sovereignty. What territories were these?
Kansas and Nebraska
100
Admitting California as a free state gave free states a advantage in the Senate and led to this solution. Trash Ball- Double Your Points
Compromise of 1850
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Many abolitionists ignored the Fugitive Slave Act and supported this route to led slaves to freedom.
the Underground Railroad
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The legislation that the Kansas-Nebraska Act voided.
the Missouri Compromise
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Court case that denied Congress the power to control slavery in the territories. (Full Name of Case Required) Trash Ball- Double Your Points
Dred Scott vs. Sandford
200
Location (city and state) of John Brown's attempt to inspire a slave revolt. Trash Ball- Double Points
Harper's Ferry, VA
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Nickname for the battles over slavery in Kansas.
Bleeding Kansas
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The number of southern states Abraham Lincoln won in the Election of 1860? Trash Ball- Double Points
Zero
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The two parts to the Compromise of 1850 that appeased the North
abolish the slave trade in Washington D.C. and admit CA as a free state
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Southerners needed additional slaves to plant and harvest this labor-intensive cash crop after Eli Whitney's invention made it easier to clean and increased demand for it.
Cotton
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After this law was passed, proslavery and antislavery settlers rushed into these territories to vote on the issue (popular sovereignty). The resulting violence caused a lot of bloodshed.
Kansas-Nebraska Act
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What did the admission to the US of Missouri as a slave state and Maine as a free state do for congress?
It helped keep the balance between slave and free states.
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This law was very controversial because it allowed people to take slaves that escaped to the north back to the south to their owners. (Double Jeopardy)
Fugitive Slave Act
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He proposed the Kansas-Nebraska Act. Trash Ball- Double Your Points
Stephen Douglas
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The Dred Scott decision was a blow to the abolitionist movement. Why?
The Supreme Court ruled that slaves were property, no matter where their owners took them.
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What in GENERAL was much of the South's economy based upon?
Agriculture (or farming.)
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The invention of this machine increased slavery in the south because it caused cotton to be even more profitable.
Cotton Gin
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The purpose of the Missouri Compromise, the Compromise of 1850, and the Kansas-Nebraska Act.
settle disputes over the spread of slavery to western territories
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The reason that many runaway slaves fled to Canada instead of staying in northern states.
the Fugitive Slave Act
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Though many farms still existed in the north, more and more of its economy was becoming based on what? Trash Ball- Double Your Points
Manufacturing (or factories.)
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Which event would have made the South the happiest-the writing of Uncle Tom's Cabin, John Brown's Raid, or the Dred Scott Decision? Why?
Dred Scott. Now slave owners could take their slaves ANYWHERE they wanted as slaves were considered PROPERTY.
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This area fell into a mini civil war over the decision of slavery.
Kansas
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