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29 Cards in this Set
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Harriet Beecher Stowe |
wrote Uncle Tom’s Cabin
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Roger B. Taney
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Ruled on Dred Scott Decision
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Zachary Taylor
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won the 1848 presidential election
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Freeport Doctrine
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Stephen Douglas’s response to slavery, pass legislation not protecting slaveholders’ rights
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Compromise of 1850
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Henry Clay’s Plan
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Missouri Compromise
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was Henry Clay’s Compromise
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Franklin Pierce
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became president in 1853
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Lincoln
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Douglas Debate-main topic was slavery
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Confederacy
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formed on February 4, 1861
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Henry Clay
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Proposed Missouri Compromise
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John Brown
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violent abolitionist
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Fort Sumter
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first attack of the Civil War
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Stephen A. Douglas
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opponent of Abraham Lincoln
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Wilmot Proviso
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plan specified that slavery should be prohibited in any lands that might be acquired from Mexico
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Fugitive Slave Act
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would fine a person or imprison them for helping an escaped slave to freedom
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Dred Scott Case
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Supreme Court Decision that divided the Nation even more
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Why was the admission of Missouri as a slave state controversial in the Senate?
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Would upset the Balance of free and slave state in congress
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Which Party endorsed the Wilmot Proviso?
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Free-Soil
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What did the enforcement of the Fugitive Act lead to?
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More anger in the North
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According to Stephen Douglas how should we let people decide about slavery?
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Popular Sovereignty
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In the Congressional election of 1858, the Senate race in what state was the center of national attention?
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Illinois
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Who were the presidential candidates of 1860?
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John Bell, Abraham Lincoln, John Breckenridge
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How did Southerners justify secession?
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States’ Rights
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What was the main issue in the election of 1844?
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Annexation of Texas
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What book showed slavery as a brutal cruel system and by whom was it written?
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Uncle Tom’s Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe
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What territory was the first to shed blood in a civil war over slavery?
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Kansas
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How did James Buchanan secure the election of 1856?
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Southern Votes
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Whose name did not appear on the ballot in southern states during the election of 1860?
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Abraham Lincoln
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Who was the senator from Kentucky who tried to save the Union by proposing a last-minute compromise?
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John Crittendon |
