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16 Cards in this Set
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What is a political party formed in 1848 to oppose the extension of slavery into U.S. territories?
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The Free Soil Party
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What is a system of routes along which runaway slaves were helped to escape to Canada or to safe areas in the free states?
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The Underground Railroad
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What is the formal withdrawal of a state from the Union?
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Secession
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Who was a fanatical antislavery leader who used violent methods to end slavery?
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John Brown
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What were the favoring of the interests of native-born people over the interests of immigrants?
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Nativism
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What is the princible that the residents of a territory should have control over their own affairs-mainly the issue of slavery?
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Popular Sovereignty
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What is a modern political party that was formed in 1854 by opponents of slavery in the territories?
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The Republican Party
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What was a name given to the American Party, to curtail the political influence of immigrants?
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The Know-Nothing Party
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In the Dred scott decision, the Supreme Court held that...
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being on free territory didn't make a slave free.
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Which of the following was intended to spark a general slave uprising?
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The raid on Harpers Ferry
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Popular sovereignty held that the dicision of whether a territory would be free of slave should be left up to...
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the residents of the territory.
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What was Abraham Lincoln's position toward the expansioin of slavery during the Lincoln
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He opposed the expansion of slavery
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All of the following terms of the Compromise of 1850 EXCEPT for...
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The immediate abolition of slavery in Washington, D.C.
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In effect, the Kansas-Nebraska Act repealed the...
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Missouri Compromise
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What was the first state to secede from the Union?
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South Carolina
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What newly developed territory was filled with many bloody conflicts concerning slavery?
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Kansas
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