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compromise of 1850
Election of 1860
Harper's Ferry
Bleeding Kansas
Breaking with the Union
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What is the compromise of 1850?
When the fugitive slave act was amended and the slave trade was abolished.
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What was the election of 1860 for?
the 19th quadrennial election.
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John Brown's Raid
In the night of October 16, 1859 what began?
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what was the time period of the bleeding Kansas?
1855-1861
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the act of formally withdrawing from the union.
What is secession?
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what was the compromise of 1850 consist of?
it consists the 5 laws passed in September of 1850
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who was in the election of 1860?
Abraham Lincoln(republican),John C. Breckinridge(Southern Democrat),Stephen A. Douglas(Northern Democrat),and John Bell(constitutional union).
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Virginia
Where is Harper's Ferry located?
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what was another name for the bleeding Kansas?
bloody Kansas
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in Charleston on December 17,1860
The convention opened in what state and what date?
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What does this say about the south's political power?
they were divided
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John Bell
Who did they select as their presidential candidate?
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55 miles.
Harper's Ferry lay next to the Potomac River, how many miles northwest of Washington is it?
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March 1855
When were the elections for the Kansas territorial legislature held?
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The issue of secession.
The constitution does not directly address what?
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California
Who entered the union as a free state
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Chicago
In mid-May where did the Republicans hold their convention?
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To get slaves to come to harper's ferry
They sent several of Brown's men to the countryside to do what?
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Civil War
Kansas collapsed into a state of what?
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Southern States
Lincoln insisted he would not change slavery in what states?
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Two territories
What was the rest of the Mexican Cession divided into?
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The spread of slavery
Lincoln was a moderate who was against what?
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The Night of October 17
Several troops arrived on what night?
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what was the bleeding Kansas for?
the border war that was a series of violent political confrontation involving anti-slavery and pro-slavery.
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The Union
They pointed out that each of the original states had voluntarily joined what ?