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7. What is to secede?
To leave. Southerners talked about seceding from the United States as tensions about slavery grew.
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8. Which Whig candidate won the presidential election of 1848?
Zachary Taylor
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18. What topic did the Lincoln-Douglas debates center around?
The topic of slavery
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24. What was the first state to secede from the Union in 1860?
South Carolina
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3. Who wrote Uncle Tom’s Cabin and, according to Lincoln, “wrote the book that started this great war?”
Harriet Beecher Stowe
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1. What is sectionalism?
An exaggerated loyalty to one part of the country
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11. What proslavery supporter of the Fugitive Slave Act became president in 1853?
Franklin Pierce
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21. With candidates Breckinridge, Bell, Douglas, and Lincoln, who won the 1860 election?
Lincoln
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25. Who disliked slavery, but thought that the disagreement over it would interfere with national growth?
Stephen A Douglas
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2. What antislavery party supported the Wilmot Proviso?
The Free-Soil party
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10. What is popular sovereignty?
To allow the people to decide. Stephen Douglas proposed to abandon the Missouri Compromise and allow people in the new territories of Kansas and Nebraska decide on whether or not to have slavery.
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9. Who was Roger Taney?
The Supreme Court Chief Justice who ruled that Dred Scott was not a citizen and therefore had no right to start a lawsuit. He also ruled that the Constitution protected slavery.
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5. What did the Missouri Compromise of 1850 propose?
To keep the balance of proslavery and antislavery states by admitting Missouri as a slave state and Maine as a free state, as well as prohibiting slavery north of 36 degrees, 30 minutes North latitude.
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6. Generally, what did the South have a strong sectionalist view supporting?
The issue of slavery
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16. What political party was formed by antislavery Whigs and Democrats as well as Free-Soilers to overthrow slavery?
The Republican Party
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12. What is an arsenal?
A storage place for weapons and ammunition
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14. Who proposed the Missouri Compromise?
Henry Clay
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15. What was the Fugitive Slave Act?
This Act required that all citizens help to catch runaway slaves and that anyone who helped runaways could be imprisoned. This act angered many Northerners.
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23. The South believed that federal or state rights were more important?
The South believed that states’ rights superseded federal rights
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22. Generally, what did the North have a strong sectionalist view against?
The issue of slavery
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13. What is a border ruffian?
A proslavery Missourian who crossed the border into Kansas to vote in the election in Kansas that decided whether or not to allow slavery in Kansas.
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17. What abolitionist raided the arsenal at Harpers Ferry, Virginia in an attempt to provide slaves with weapons?
John Brown
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19. Why was the Dred Scott decision so important?
· Because it involved the Supreme Court who ruled that · Dred Scott was still a slave · Dred Scott was therefore not a citizen · Scott had no legal right to have a lawsuit · Scott was property · Congress had no legal right to ban slavery · Therefore Missouri Compromise was unconstitutional
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4. Why was the admission of Missouri as a slave state controversial in the Senate?
Because it would upset the even 11 to 11 balance of proslavery versus anti-slavery states.
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20. What state (known today as the “Land of Lincoln”) received national attention during the Senate race of 1858?
Illinois