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Compromise of 1850
Breaking with the Union
The Kansas-Nebraska act
Election of 1860
The Dred Scott Decision
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Five main parts
How many main parts did Clay's plan have?
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Abolish slavery
What did the south think Lincoln was going to do after he got elected?
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Divide the rest of the Louisiana Purchase in to two territories Kansas and Nebraska.
What was the Kansas-Nebraska act?
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Lincoln
Who was elected?
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He wanted to be a citizen of the US because he lived on free soil
What Happen with Dred Scott?
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Yes and financial help to pay off debt.
Did Texas give up it all claims to east upper Rio Grande and if so what did the federal government give Texas?
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It would destroy the Souths economy and society.
Why was the South scared that Lincoln might abolish slavery?
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North rages and didn't like it because they thought they were turning free state into slaves states.
What did the North think about Kansas-Nebraska act?
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North and south didn't agree on an elective so they split apart
What happen to the Democrat party
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To hopefully free other slaves in his position.
Why did Dred go to court instead of just becoming a free slave?
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California
Which state did Clay urge congress to enter the Union and become a free state?
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The act of formally withdrawing from the Union.
What is secession?
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Southerners wanted a railroad running from New Orleans across Texas but Douglas wanted the railroad to start in Chicago.
Why did the Southerners not support Douglas's plan?
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180 out of 183 free states.
How many elective votes did Lincoln get?
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He entered Missouri which was a free state, so he thought he could become free.
Why did Scott sue for freedom?
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The Mexican Cession got split into 2 territories.
What happened to the Mexican Cession after the Compromise of 1850 became a law.
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John J. Crittenden
Which senator proposed a series of constitutional amendments to satisfy the South.
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They attended protests and sent anti-Nebraskans to Congress.
In their anger what did anti-slavery northerners do?
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The Constitutional Union Party
What political party did the north and the south join?
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He was an african American that means he was not an american so he could not sue.
Why did Dred Scott lose the court case?
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Urge Congress to enter California as a free state. Clay called for the rest of the Mexican Cession to be organized as a federal territory. Called New Mexico popular sovereignty would decide the status of slavery. He called on Texas to give up all land east of the upper Rio Grande. In exchange, the federal gov. would play Texas's old debts. He called an end to the slave trade but not slavery in the country's capital. He called for a new, more effective fugitive slave law.
What are all five main parts to Henry Cays plan?
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Lincoln sent letters to republicans in the senate to vote against extension of slavery
What did Lincoln do about Crittendens plan
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He asked a few key southern senators to support his plan.
How did Douglas get the act to pass?
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They knew that were not going to win in the election but hoped to prevent him to with the electoral college.
What was Douglas Bell and Breckenridge thinking when Lincoln ran for president?
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Slavery and settles it in favor of the south.
What question does the Dred Scott case answer?