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The Compromise of 1850
The Kansas Nebraska Act
Bleeding Kansas
The Election of 1860
The Fugitive Slave Act
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When did the Compromise of 1850 become law?
September of 1850
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What two territories did the plan divide the Louisiana Purchase into?
Kansas and Nebraska
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Why was it called Bleeding Kansas?
Because during the Pottawatomie Massacre about 200 people died
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Who won the Election of 1860?
Lincoln
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Who did the Fugitive Slave Act upset the most?
the Northerners
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What was Henry Clay's nickname?
The Great Compromiser
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Who had supported building a railroad to the pacific?
Stephen Douglas
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By early 1856 how many governments did Kansas have?
2
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Who was William Seward?
A Senator of New York and the leading candidate for the Republicans
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What did the Fugitive Slave Act do?
made it a federal crime to help runaway slaves
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What did Texas give in exchange for financial help?
They gave up their land claims in New Mexico
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When was the Kansas-Nebraska Act introduced?
January 1854
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How many men rode to Lawrence where they destroyed buildings and printing presses?
over 700
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Who was the first party to meet to nominate a presidential canidate?
The Democrats
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What was the punishment for helping fugitive slaves?
6 months in jail and a $1,000
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Henry Clay called for the rest of the Mexican Cession to be organized as a ___ ____
Federal Territory
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Who did not support Douglas' plan?
Southerners in Congress
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What did people do to ensure a pro slave victory?
People crossed the border from Missouri, voted in Kansas, and then returned home
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Who was John Bell?
The candidate chosen by the Constitutional Union Party.
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After Congress passed the law how many fugitive slave cases came under the commissioners' review in the North?
343
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What happened under the Compromise of 1850?
California entered the union as a free state, the Mexican Cession was divided into 2 territories as Utah and New Mexico. The Compromise outlawed the slave trade in the Nation's capitol and produced a new fugitive slave law that replaced the old law of 1793
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What did Stephan Douglas' plan do?
It divided the Louisiana Purchase into 2 territories, Nebraska and Kansas. It would remove the Missouri Compromise's restriction on slavery north of the 36 30 line
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When did John Brown lead a group of men along side Pottawatomie Creek?
May 24, 1856
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What was the Constitutional Union Party?
A new party formed by northerners and Southerners.
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How did Commissioners make money?
IF the rejected a slaveholder's claim they received $5. If they returned a suspected fugitive to the slaveholder in the South received $10