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Author of "Uncle Tom's Cabin"
Who is Harriet Beecher Stowe
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To withdraw membership in a group
What is to secede
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How would you define Abraham Lincoln, as an abolitionist or antislavery?
What is antislavery
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The first southern state to secede
What is South Carolina
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Missouri slave who attempted to sue for his freedom.
Who is Dred Scott
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Confederate president
Who Jefferson Davis
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John Brown was involved with these two major conflicts prior to the Civil War
What is Bleeding Kansas and the raid of Harpers Ferry
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The number of southern states Abraham Lincoln won in the Election of 1860
What is 0
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The first battle of the Civil War
What is Fort Sumter
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Side that fired the first shots of the Civil War.
What is the Confederacy.
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Antislavery group who appeared in the mid 1850s
Who is the Republican Party
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How did "Uncle Tom's Cabin" effect public opinion in the North and the South.
What is northerners became more opposed to slavery whereas southerners objected the book and viewed it as propaganda
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Actions against one's country.
What is treason.
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Slave states who remained in the Union
What are border states
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Southerners justified seceding from the Union with the theory of 

What is states rights

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Define Border Ruffian and Martyr
Border Ruffian- pro-slavery supporter who rode into Kansas to battle anti-slavery supporters. Martyr- someone who dies for what they believe in.
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The two major components of the Missouri Compromise.
What is 1. Drew imaginary line at 36, 30 2. Forced states to join the Union in pairs. Missouri joined as a slave, Maine as a free.
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Lincoln ran for the Senate in this state in 1858.
What is Illinois.
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Name the border states
What are Kentucky, Maryland, Delaware, and Missouri
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Two major outcomes of the Supreme Court's ruling regarding the Dred Scott case.

1. Dred Scott is not a citizen of the U.S. 2. The Missouri Compromise is unconstitutional.

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Author of the Kansas-Nebraska Act and his proposal to deal with the issue of slavery
Who is Stephen Douglas and popular sovereignty
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The 5 parts of the Compromise of 1850.
What is 1. Allowed California to enter as a free state 2. Introduced a strict fugitive slave law 3. Ended the slave trade in Washington, D.C. 4. Created the territories of New Mexico and Utah 5. Settled border dispute between New Mexico and Texas
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What was the purpose of John Brown's raid at Harpers Ferry 

To gain weapons from a federal arsenal and arm slaves for a slave revolt; failed

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Besides South Carolina, name the other 6 southern states who initially seceded after Lincoln's election, but before Ft. Sumter
What are Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Florida, Georgia
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The President before Abe Lincoln who was still in office while southern states began seceding from the Union
Who is James Buchanan