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The Election of 1860
Bleeding Kansas
Antislavery Literature
The Fugitive Slave Act
The Dread Scott Decision
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Who won the election of 1860?
Abraham Lincoln
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What did the two sides do to make sure that they would win Kansas?
They sent men to Kansas to vote
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Who wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin?
Harriet Beecher Stowe
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What did the fugitive slave act state?
It was a federal crime to help runaway slaves
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Which court decided Scott's fate?
The supreme court
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Which half of the country was Lincoln associated with?
The North
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What did this do to the state?
It gave them two, split governments
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What man were most of the stories based on?
Frederick Douglass
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Who did the fugitive slave law upset?
Northerners
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Who was Scott the slave to?
An army surgeon
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Did Abraham Lincoln support slavery?
No
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What were both sides supplied with?
Weapons
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What women were many antislavery novels about?
Sojourner Truth
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Where did African Americans go to escape this act?
Canada
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Who was the judge of this case?
Roger B. Taney
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Who were the people who opposed slavery?
Slaveholders and slave supporters
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What broke out as a result of the split government?
Violence
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In what year was Uncle Tom's Cabin published?
1852
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What is the price of hiding a runaway slave?
6 months in jail and a $1000 fine
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After this case were African Americans considered U.S. citizens?
African Americans were not considered U.S. citizens
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What did this remind the south?
That they were loosing political power?
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What kind of laws did the new legislature pass?
Pro-Slavery laws
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How many copies of Uncle Tom's Cabin sold
Over 2 million
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What man did abolitionists try to free in order to resist this movement?
Anthony Burns
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In the end who lost the case?
Dred Scott