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| Who suggested the Missouri Compromise? |
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| What was the Free Soil Party? Why was it founded? |
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| The Free Soil Party is a debate over slavery and it was founded because they were trying to keep slavery from expanding to the west. |
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| What state trying to get into the Union caused the Compromise of 1850? |
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| Who was known as The Great Compromiser? |
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| Who was the South Carolina Senator who spoke for the South? |
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| What 5 things did the Compromise of 1850 decide? |
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- allowed California to enter the Union as a free state
- divided the res of the Mexican Cesssion into the trritories of NM and Utah
- ended the slave trade in Washington D.C.
- included a strict fugitive slave law
- settled a dispute between Texas and N.M.
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| What is popular sovereignty? |
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| The right of people to create their own goverment |
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| What novel changed the way the North thought about Slavery? And who wrote it? |
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Harrit Beecher
"Uncle Tom's Cabin" |
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| Who suggested the Kansas- Nebraska Act? |
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| Why was there violence in Kansas? |
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| Kansas becam a testing ground for popular soverinty proslavery and anti slavery forces sent settlers to fight for control of land. |
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| What was Kansas's nickname? |
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| What happened at Pottawatomie Creek? |
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| John Brown and his 4 sons killed 5 proslavery settlers. |
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| What is guerilla warfare? |
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| the use of hit-and run tactics |
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| What was the name of the Court Case of a slave filling for fredom? What was decided? |
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| lawsuit he had become a free man |
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| Why was the Republican Party founded? |
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| People who oppose slavery in the territories sought new political voice, they argued that they would take a strong stand against slavery |
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| What is the difference between anti-slavery and abolitionists? |
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| antislavery wanted to end the spread of slavery and abolonist wanted to end slavery completly |
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| What happened at Harpers Ferry? How did the North react? South? |
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Brown raded a federal arsenal
10 raiders were killled and Brown was captured he got the death penalty and was hanged in the morning. The north and the south thought that his idea of slave revolt was insane. |
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| Who won the election of 1860? |
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| What was the first state to secede the union ? |
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| What was the name of the new southern nation? |
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| The Confederate States of America |
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| What was the name of the President of the southern nation? |
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| Were did the Civil War begin? |
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| How long was the Civil War? |
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- John Brown embarked on a righteous crusade against slavery that based on
yet carried out with shocking
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