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Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin
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Greatly strengthend northern antislavery feeling
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p. 420
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Hinton R. Helper's "The Impending Crisis of the South" contended that
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Slavery deeply harmed the poor whites of the South
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p. 421
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The conflict over slavery in Kansas
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Was greatly escalated by abolitionist-funded settlers and proslavery "border ruffians" from Missouri
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p. 422
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As presented to Congress, the Lecompton Constitution provided for
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a statewide referendum on slavery to be held after Kansas's admission to the Union ???
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p. 422
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The fanatical abolitionist John Brown made his first entry into vioent antislavery politics by
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Killing five proslavery settlers at Pottawatomie Creek, Kansas
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p. 423
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The Summer-Brooks affair revealed
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How dangerously inflamed passions over slavery were becoming in both North and South
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p. 424
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The election of 1856 was most noteworthy for
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the Democrats' suprising loss of the White House
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p. 425
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In the Dred Scott decision, the Supreme Court
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Avoided controversy by ruling that the slave Dred Scott had no right to sue in federal court
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p. 426
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The panic of 1857 encouraged the South to believe that
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its economy was fundamentally stronger than that of the North
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p. 428
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A key issue in the Lincoln-Douglas debates was
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whether the people of a territory could prohibit slavery in light of the Dred Scott decision
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p. 430
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The South was particularly enraged by the John Brown affair because
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the believed Brown's violent abolitionist sentiments were shared by the whole North
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p. 432
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In the campaign of 1860, the Democratic Party
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Split in two, with each faction nominating its own presidential candidate
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p. 434
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Lincoln won the presidency
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with an electoral majority derivved only from the North
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p. 436
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Within two months after the election of Lincoln,
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seven southern states had seceded and formed the Confederate States of America
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p. 438
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Lincoln rejected the proposed Crittenden Compromise because
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it permitted the further extension of slavery south of the liine 36'30''
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p. 439
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