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Stephen Douglas
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had supported the idea of building the railroad to the pacific Ocean. He favored a line running from Chicago Southerners in Congress did not support douglas's plan because they wannted a Southern route. that ran from new Orleans across Texas to southern California. Douglas was able to get a few key southern states to agree with his plan because he , in turn, opened the new territory west of the Mississippi to slavery.
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Why did Northerners dislike the kansas=Nebraska Act?
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thw new legilature had a huge proslavery majority.
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What was the attack on Lawrence?
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In May 1856 a proslavery grand jury in kansas charged leaders of the anti sllavery government with Treason. Around 800 men rrode to lawrence to arrest the antislavery leaders but they had fled. The group took it's anger out on the city of lawrence by setting fires, looting buildings, destroying printing presses used to print antislavery newspapers.
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Sack of lawrence
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One man was killed in the proslavery attack.
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How did John Brown respond to the attack on Lawrence?
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He was an abolitionist determined to fight back. On the night of may 24, 1856 he and his men killed 5 proslavery men in kansas. This was known as the Pottawatomieie massacre because it occurred along the Pottawattomie Creek.
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What was the major result of the kansa-nebraska Act?
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The kansas-nebraska Act produced a national uproar .
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What political divisions took place as a result of the slavvery disagreements?
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The Republican Party was formed.
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Republican party
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a political group united against the spread of slavery in the West.
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James buchanon
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nominated was nominated by the Democrats to run for pRESIDENT. BUCHANON WON.
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JOHN C. FREMONT
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NOMINATEED BY THE REPUBLICAN PARTY
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what were the political parties of 1856?
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Democrats and Republicans
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In 1854, what parties united to become the republican party?
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Some whigs, some Democrats, some free Soilers, and some abolitionists
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Dred scott Decision
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The historic ruling issued by the Supreme Court, about slavery. Having to do with an enslaved man named dred Scott.
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Dred Scott
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a slave who sued for his freedom in 1846 in the Missouri state courts arguing that he became free when he lived in free territory, the lower court in Missouri ruled in ghis favor, but the Missouri Supreme court did not.
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Rulings of the Supreme Court in the Dred Scott Case
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1. African Amer. had no rights slave or free because they were not citizens, 2, Taney ruled that Scott could only be judged as a slave or free according to the stae of Missouri. 3. Judge taney ruled the Missouri Compromise restriction on slavery was unconstitutional which meant Congresss had no right to ban slavery in any teritory.
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in what year did Il Republicans nominate Abraham Lincoln for the U.S> Senate?
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1858
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what were the Lincoln-Douglas Debates?
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Lincoln challenged Democrat stephen douglas by saying that the Democrats were trying to spread slavery in the West. He also said that the Democrats were trying to spread slavery across the nation. lincoln said African Americans were entitled to all national rights. He said the nation could not remai half slave and half free. Lincoln pressed Douglas on the apparent contradiction between the democrats' belief in popular sovereignty and the Dred Scott decision.
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Freeport Doctrine
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The notion that the police would enforce the voter's decision if it contradicted the Supreme Court's decision in the Dred Scott case.
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John brown's raid
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October 16, 1859, John Brown and his men took over the arsenal in HARPER'S FERRY, Virginia in hopes of starting a slave rebellion. Local white southereners attacked Brown and eight men and three local men died.Joh n brown was convicted of treason, murder, and conspiracy. brown was hanged.
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Election of 1860
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Northern democrats nominated senator Stephen douglass and Southern democrats nominated John C. Breckenridge of Kentucky who supported slavery.
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Constitutional Union party
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a new political party , around the time of 1860,. This party recognized the political principals other than the Constitution of the country, the Union of the states, and the enforcement of laws.
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secession
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formally withdrawing from the Union
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The Southern states feared loss of jobs for whites so they considered seceding the Union.
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Lincoln said that no state could lawfully get out of the Union without war.
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