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19 Cards in this Set
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What act did congress pass in 1850 |
The Fugitive Slave Act |
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What did it require. |
All citizens to help capture and return enslaved African Americans who had runaway. |
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What happened to people who helped runaways |
They could be fined or imprisoned. |
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What did antislavery groups do? |
they bought the freedom of the enslaved. |
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What problem did the addition Kansas and Nebraska cause. |
They were both North of 36 dgrees |
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What would being nirth of the line mean? |
The balance of free and slave states would be messed up. |
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What act did congress pass in 1854 in response to this? |
The Kansas and Nebraska |
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What did this open the door to? |
Slavery and those areas |
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What did Senator Sam Houstan predict? |
That the country would "convulse from Maine to the Rio Grande." |
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What did pro-slavery and anti-slavery people do about voting? |
Rushed supporters into Kansas to influence voting over wether Kansas would enter the Union as a slave or free state. |
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What happened by January 1856? |
Rival pro-slavery and anti-slavery governments existed in Kansas |
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Who was John Brown? |
A violent abolitionist who vowed to avenge the attacks on anti-slavery groups in Lawrence. |
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What did Brown do one night. |
Led four sons and killed 5 supporters pro-slavery |
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What was the area referred to as? |
"Bleeding Kansas" |
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Why was it called this? |
The over 200 deaths that occurred in various attacks |
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Popular sovereignity |
The idea that people living in a territory had the right to decide by voting if slavery would be allowed there. |
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Antislavery groups |
IDK |
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Border ruffians |
Missourians who traveled in armed groups to vote in kansas election during the mid 1850s |
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civil war |
conflict between opposing groups of citizens in the same country |
