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The Ostend Manifesto of 1854 was a secret government document suggesting

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that the US might be justified in seizing Cuba by force if Spain refused to sell it.

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As proposed in January 1854, the Kansas-Nebraska bill

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provided for popular sovereignty under which the people in each territory would decide about slavery.

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In the fall of 1855, Kansas had

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competing territorial governments at Topeka and Lecompton, divided over slavery.

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Going into the 1856 election, the American Know-Nothing party

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split in two, a North-South division, over the issue of slavery.

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Democrat James Buchanan won the presidency in 1856 with a campaign that

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condemned the “Black Republicans” as abolitionists who would break up the Union.

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During the 1858 Lincoln-Douglas debates in Illinois, Abraham Lincoln

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declared that white people should be superior to blacks and that he did not favor giving blacks equal political rights.

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The election of 1860 brought the creation of the

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Constitutional Union Party.

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Responding to seeing the Federal Fugitive Slave Act enforced, novelist Harriet Beecher Stowe published Uncle Tom’s Cabin in 1852. Which of the following statements is FALSE?

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Stowe’s characters were all stereotypes, and her portrayal of slavery was highly inaccurate.

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John Brown, a fanatic abolitionist, led a violent raid on Harper’s Ferry, Virginia in October 1859. Brown hoped to

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take over the federal arsenal, capture weapons, and arm slaves to incite a revolt.

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By the election of 1860, there was little chance for compromise over slavery. Republican Abraham Lincoln defeated three other candidates. Which of the following statements is FALSE?

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Lincoln promised he would abolish slavery everywhere and was seen as a “Black Republican.”