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21 Cards in this Set
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Who refused to back a slaveholder in 1848?
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Conscience Whigs
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Who was the Know-Nothing candidate in 1856?
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Millard Fillmore
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Who was known as the "Great Compromiser"?
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Henry Clay
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Who debated against Abraham Lincoln ub 1858?
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Stephen A. Douglas
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Who lost the senatorial election in 1858?
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Abraham Lincoln
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Where was the free-soil stronghold?
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Lawrence, Kansas
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Who was elected president in 1856?
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James Buchanan
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Where did the Republican Party start?
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Wisconsin
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What was part of the Compromise of 1850?
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Fugitive Slave Act
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Where was the site of a raid led by John Brown?
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Harpers Ferry
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Most controversies centered around slavery in....
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the new territories
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What event led to a national crisis in 1849-1850?
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California's application for statehood
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The Compromise of 1850 was signed into law by President...
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Millard Fillmore
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Simon Legree and Uncle Tom were characters in...
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Uncle Tom's Cabin
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Who proposed the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
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Stephen A. Douglas
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John Brown and his followers killed proslavery settlers in....
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Kansas
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Charles Sumner made a speech in which he criticized Senator...
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Andrew Buttler
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In a debate at Freeport, Illinois, Lincoln asked Douglas what he thought about...
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the Dred Scott decision
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Abraham Lincoln was elected President in....
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1860
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In 1859 John Brown and his followers occupied a...
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federal armory
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Why did Southerners think that an attack on slavery was an attack on their way of life??
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Many Southerners believed in tradition, and slavery was a cornerstone of Southern culture and society, and therefore, if slavery was outlawed, their society would crumble.
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