What compromise came about as the result of Missouri wanting to enter the Union as a slave state?
The Missouri Compromise
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What leads to the need for the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
Kansas and Nebraska are going to officially become territories and both free and slave states want them to be on their side.
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Who is Dred Scott?
A slave who is suing for his freedom.
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Who wins the Election of 1860?
Abraham Lincoln
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What compromise came about as a result of New Mexico and Utah wanting to be recognized as organized territories?
Compromise of 1850
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What is the most important part of the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
popular sovereignty -- the people in the territories will vote to decide whether or not the territories will have slavery
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Why does Harriet Beecher Stowe write Uncle Tom's Cabin?
She is an abolitionist who saw the horrors of slavery and wanted others to understand how bad it was.
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How is Abraham Lincoln able to win the election with only 40% of the vote?
There are three candidates who are for slavery, so they split the votes of the people who want slavery. As a result, they can't get enough votes to beat Abraham Lincoln.
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What are the three parts of the Missouri Compromise?
1. Missouri is added to the U.S. as a slave state
2. Maine is added to the U.S. as a free state
3. 36'30 parallel line is created as a border (everything above is free; everything below is slave)
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Why does the Kansas-Nebraska Act cause problems?
People from surrounding free states and surrounding slave states move into Kansas and Nebraska to try to get the vote to go the way they want it to. This leads to tremendous amounts of violence by both sides.
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What questions does the Dred Scott case pose?
Are African Americans citizens?
Are slaves who are brought into free states free?
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How do the Southern states react to Abraham Lincoln getting elected?
They are enraged. It is the final straw that leads them to secede from the Union.
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What are the four main parts of the Compromise of 1850?
1. The territories will choose whether or not they are free or slave.
2. Slave trade is banned in Washington, D.C.
3. Fugitive Slave Act is passed
4. California is added to the U.S. as a free state
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How is John Brown's Raid connected to the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
John Brown is an abolitionist who moves into the territory and tries to end slavery by raiding a military arsenal and giving the weapons to slaves.
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Why is Uncle Tom's Cabin important?
It helps Northerners realize how bad slavery is and encourages many to become abolitionists.
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What is Secession?
Secession is when certain southern states leave the United States and form their own country: Confederate States of America
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What was the problem with the Missouri Compromise and the Compromise of 1850?
They were only temporary fixes to the issue of slavery. They did not solve the problem between the free states and slave states and only made the relationship between them worse.
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Why do the Kansas-Nebraska Act and John Brown's Raid pull North and South even further apart?
Both sides become more extreme in their view that their own side is right and the other is wrong. They start to realize that compromise will no longer work.
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Why is the Dred Scott Decision so shocking?
It decides that no African American can be a slave and that slaves can be taken to free states by their owners. It effectively makes free states slave states.
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Why does Secession lead to the Civil War?
The Union does not want the United States to be divided, so they are going to fight to keep the southern states part of the United States.