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Henry Clay in 1850
Who became a senator in 1850
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The two states that sparked popular soverenity
Kansas and Nebraska
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John C. Frémont, and James Buchanan
The candidates that the democratic and republican parties picked
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Will the union break up?
The hot question burning in everybody's minds in the months before 1860
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to leave
Secede
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Stephen A. Douglas proposed popular sovereignty instead of it
Missouri Compromise
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Most people guessed that he would be president vs the other less known candidate
Stephen A. Douglas
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withdrawal from the Union
secession
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an exaggerated loyalty to a particular region of the country.
Sectionalism
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proslavery Missourians who were in armed groups
border ruffians
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He was an fairly unknown candidate for the republican party
Abraham Lincoln
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The North was more populous
Which part of America was more populous?
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The balance would be destroyed
What would happen if another slave, or non slave state joined the union
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allowing the people to decide.
Popular Sovereignity
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The message the republican party was trying to get across
Anti Slavery
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slavery should be left undisturbed where it existed, but that it should be excluded from the territories.
Abraham Lincoln's campaign hook
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Missouri
A state that tried to join the union in 1819
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requires all citizens to help catch runaway slaves
Fugitive Slave Act
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A new political party
The Republicans
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“We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection.”
A quote by Abraham Lincoln