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Explain the 3 things the Missouri compromise did. |
Makes Missouri free slave state, allows main to enter as a free slave state, anything north can't have slavery but south can. |
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Explain the 4 main things the compromise of 1850 did. |
North California is admitted as a free state, the rest of the land gained from Mexico had popular sovereignty, the slave trade in Washington D.C. would be banned, the south gets a stronger fugitive slave law. |
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Who proposed the Kansas Nebraska act? |
Stephen .A Douglas |
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In what year did Texas become a state? Was it a free or slave state? |
December 29, 1845, Not a free state. |
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Based on the kansas nebraska act, how would the issue of slavery be decided in Kansas and Nebraska? |
Popular sovereignty. |
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What did the Supreme court rule in the Dred scott case? |
Dred Scott is not a citizen. |
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Who was chosen as president of the new nation formed by the southern states? What was the name of the new nation? |
Jefferson Davis, Confederate States of America. |
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On what date did the civil war officially begin? What event marked the start of the war? |
April 12th, 1861, the attack on Fort Sumter. |
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What was the main issue in the presidential election of 1844? |
There was no annexation. |
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What did the wilmont proviso propose? |
To ban slavery in the territories. |
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Who won the presidential election of the 1860's? |
Abraham Lincoln |
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What was the main issue of the Lincoln_Douglas debates? |
Slavery in the United states. |
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Who became president in1853? |
Franklin Pierce |
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What state was the first to secede? On what date? |
South Carolina, December 20, 1860. |
