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Who was the voice of the North? Who was the voice of the South?
North: Daniel Webster
South: John C. Calhoun
Who were border ruffians?
Pro-slavery vigilantes in Kansas
Which US president did nothing as South Carolina and other states started to secede?
President James Buchanan
What was the name of the group of Southern states that seceded in 1860 & 1861? Who was their first president?
The Confederate States of America
Jefferson Davis
Who wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin?
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Who was the US major who surrounded John Brown at Harper's Ferry and arrested him?
Robert E. Lee
Who was the US major who had to abandon Fort Sumter after being attacked for 23 hours?
Major Robert Anderson
Who did not join John Brown in his attack on Harper's Ferry?
Harriet Tubman and Frederick Douglass
Who was John C. Fremont?
The first Republican presidential candidate in 1856
What was the name of the pro-slavery capital of the new Kansas territory?
Lecompton
Who did the new Republican Party get most of its support from in the 1850s?
Northern and anti-slavery voters