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What was the Wilmot Proviso?

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2.Define: popular sovereignty.

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3.What was the Compromise of 1850?

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4.What made the compromise necessary?

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5.What was the role of Calhoun? Webster? Douglas? Taylor? Fillmore? Seward?

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6.What was (describe) The Fugitive Slave Law of 1850? How was it different from the Fugitive Slave Law of 1793?

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7.Who was Harriet Beecher Stowe? What did she write and why? What was the significance?

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8.How did the South respond to the Fugitive Slave Law of 1850?

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9.Describe the Kansas-Nebraska Crisis.

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10.What was the Kansas-Nebraska Act?

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11.What is meant by Bleeding Kansas? Describe what happened there and why it was significant.

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12.Describe the caning of Sumner and why it was important.

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13.Why do you think the Republican Party emerged?

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14.Describe Dred Scott v. Sanford. What was the reaction in the North? South?

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15.Describe John Brown's Raid on Harpers Ferry.

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16.Who was John Brown? In what way was Brown and his raid significant?

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17.Explain how political crises of the 1850s created an atmosphere for secession.

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1.On what grounds did Scott petition for freedom filed in 1846? Was there a legal precident for a slave to win their freedome this way?

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2.Dred Scott won his freedom in his 1850 re-trial. What factors led to this verdict being overturned in the appeal of this case?

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3.What events were taking place at the time of Scott's Supreme Court hearings? How could they have affected the outcome?

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4.What arguments did Geyer and Johnson make against giving Scott his freedom? What was the significance of the argument towards slavery in general?

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5.According to the author, how did the result of the Dred Scott case lead to the outbreak of the Civil War?

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•Wilmot Proviso

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•Popular Sovereignty

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•Compromise of 1850

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•Fugitive Slave Act of 1850

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•Stephen Douglas

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•Kansas Nebraska Act

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•Caning of Sumner

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•Dred Scott v. Sanford

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•John Brown and Harpers Ferry

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1.How did American politicians handle the issue of slavery in the territories from the Mexican-American War through the election of 1860? Was the American Civil War avoidable? Explain.

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2.Describe the breakdown of American political parties in the 1850s from national to sectional parties, making sure to explain the rise of the Republican Party and the principles upon which it was founded.

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What were the causes of sectional tension and conflict?

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The moral conflict over slavery.

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What were the causes of secession?

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Fear about what Lincoln's election meant to the South and slavery.

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Why did  the North refuse to allow the peaceful secession of the South

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American nationalism