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The Slavery Debate
Trouble in Kansas
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This was an idea proposed to congress to prohibit slavery in all parts of the Mexican Cession?
The Wilmot Proviso
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What Act divided the Louisiana Purchase into two territories?
The Kansas Nebraska Act
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Who sued for their freedom?
Dred Scott
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What was John Brown Trying to do in his raid?
steal weapons to arm the slaves
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Who states "There will be not compomise"
Abraham Lincoln
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What did popular sovereignty mean?
territories would decide on the issue of slavery
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The Kansas Nebraska Act returned the issue of slavery between who?
The North and South
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in 1858 Lincoln was running for what political office?
Illinois U.S. Senate Seat
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Why did John Brown's raid fail?
He did not gain any supporters
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Who wrote "Uncle Tom's Cabin"?
Harriet Beecher Stowe
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What was a consequence of the Compromise of 1850?
It upset the balance of free and slave states
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What happened in Kansas after the Pottawatomie Massacre?
Kansas collapsed into civil war
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In 1854 the Republican party rallied around what issue?
the spread of slavery in the west
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What was the significance of the 1860 election?
It showed the south was loosing its political power
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List 3 States called the Confederate States of America
Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgial, Louisiana, Texas
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Why did most Northerners oppose the fugitive slave act?
They were uncomfortable with judges earning extra money to send slaves back to the South, They are concerned about the trial process for blacks accused of being an escaped slave.
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When the antislavery government in Kansas declared slavery illegal, what event took place?
The Sack of Lawrence
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Chief Justice Taney argued in 1857 that congress could not prohibit someone from taking slaves into a federal territory because?
slaves were property, and property was protected by law
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Who becomes president of the Confederacy
Jefferson Davis
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How many court cases it took to deem Dred Scott is not a citizen of the U.S. therefore does not have access to the process of the U.S. courts.
5 court cases
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Why was Harriet Beecher Stowe's Novel so influential in the slavery debate
She exposed the harsh realities of slavery
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What was the event called when five pro slavery men were killed in kansas?
The Pottawatomie Massacre
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Why were Republicans angered over the Dred Scott Decision?
The Supreme Court ruled that congress could not ban slavery
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to abolish slavery.
While Abraham Lincoln was campaigning for President of the United States, he does not promise ...
500
How many years Dred Scott lived as a Freed Slave before his death?
1 year