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to break away
Secede
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Maine joined as a _______ state Missouri joined as a _______ state
Free Slave
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What was the Fugitive Slave Act?
required all citizens to help catch runaways
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Differing views over slavery destroyed what party?
The Whig Party
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South Carolina voted to do what?
Secede from Union
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interconnected system
network
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What happened in Congress after Missouri applied for statehood?
This had caused an angry debate in Congress
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What happened after Kansas-Nebraska Act passed?
pro-slavery and anti-slavery groups rushed into Kansas
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Know Nothing party attacked who?
immigrants
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What happened to Lincoln's name on Southern ballots
Name didn't even appear
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storage site for weapons
arsenal
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Who proposed the Missouri Compromise?
Speaker of the House Henry Clay
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Which President enforced the Fugitive Slave Act?
Franklin Pierce
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Who was Dred Scott?
enslaved African American bought by army doctor in Missouri, slave state
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The states defined the Constitution as a what?
Contract among the states
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People saw John Brown as a
martyr
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Northerners and Southerners views on slavery?
Northerners; wanted to restrict or ban slavery Southerners; opposed antislavery efforts. Resented the interference by outsiders in Southern affairs
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Refusing to accept the laws, antislavery people did what?
armed themselves, held their own elections, adopted constitution
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What did Dred Scott case say?
Dred Scott was an enslaved person, he was not a citizen, therefore had no right to bring lawsuit
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Newly seceded states formed a new nation called what?
Confederate States of America
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Slavery was the main _________ at the Lincoln Douglas Debate
topic; subject of discussion
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Compromise of 1850 said what?
Proposed that California enter as a free state, while the rest of the new territories would have no limitations on slavery
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What did John Brown do?
led group where they seized and killed five supporters of slavery
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What had the court upheld?
Upheld what many in South had always maintained, nothing could legally stop spread of slavery
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What states had joined the Confederacy?
VA, NC, TN, AK