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compromise between North and South that allowed California to enter the Union in exchange for the passage of the Fugitive Slave Law
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compromise of 1850
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the belief that all powers not specifically given to the national govt in the US constitution or specifically denied to the states remain with the states
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States rights
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helped pass the compromise of 1850; tried desperately to preserve the Union, but after secession served as vice president of the Confederate States of America; supported slavery
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Alexander Stephens
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the idea of voiding and not following national laws within a state
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nullification
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this posed a threat to the Union if states would pick and choose national laws to enforce
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nullification
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involuntary servitude of men, women, and children
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slavery
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a reason that the North and South were divided on many issues
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slavery
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event that resulted in southern states seceding from the Union in fear their way of life was in jeopardy
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Lincoln Election of 1860
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the belief by the people in a given region or area that their ideas and interests are better and more important than those of another region or area
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sectionalism
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the parallel, Missouri's southern border, which defined whether states would enter the Union as free or slave
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36° 30 line
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allowing political decisions to be made by the will of the people
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popular sovereignty
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the concept behind the Kansas - Nebraska Act
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popular sovereignty
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governor of Georgia who had social and economic stake in the institution of slavery and during the secession debates supported seceding from the Union
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Joseph E. Brown
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legislation that created the territories of Kansas and Nebraska
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Kansas - Nebraska Act
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sued for his freedom after traveling into the free states of Illinois and Wisconsin with his master
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Dred Scott
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us supreme court ruling that declared slaves were not citizens of the US and that Congress couldn't prohibit slavery from extending into western territories
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Dred Scott Case
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compromise that brought Missouri into the Union as a slave state and Maine into the Union as a free state
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Missouri Compromise
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the idea that Providence intended for Americans to "overspread the continent"
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manifest destiny
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the belief that the state's interests should take precedence over the interest of the national govt
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State's rights
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created in 1854, opposed the spread of slavery, and existed only in the free states
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Republican Party
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T/F The North supported low tariffs to keep the price of northern made products lower than those on imported goods to protect northern industry from foreign competition
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False
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T/F Blockade runners wee important to Georgia during the Civil war because they brought needed supplies into the state
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true
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which new political party was formed in 1854?
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Republican
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why did Alexander Stephens want leaders to accept the compromise of 1850?
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to prevent southern states from seceding thus preserving the Union
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What was the Know Nothing Party?
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they did not want immigrants to become citizens or anyone not born in the US to hold political office
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who joined the Know Nothing Party?
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Whigs
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what was the Constitutional Union party and when did it end?
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•got Georgians to accept the Compromise of 1850
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