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| What does the Wilmont Proviso state? |
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| That any territory acquired as a result of the civil war shall be free of slaves. |
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| Why is the south upset about the Wilmont Proviso? |
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| Because those territories are below the Missouri Compromise line. |
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| What were Northern congressmen afraid of? |
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| Being overrun by the South. |
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| The _____ causes ________ to become a state quicker than anticipated. |
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| California applies to the union as a |
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| The ____ did not enforce the _____ |
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| North, Fugitive Slave Act |
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| The Fugitive Slave Act stated that |
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| Any slave found in the North is to be caught and sent back to the South. |
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| The Compromise of 1850 states that |
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| California is admitted as a free state, Utah and New Mexico will use popular sovereignty to decide slavery, Texas pays the federal government $10 million to end its border dispute with New Mexico, the sale of slaves in DC will be banned, even though slavery can still continue there, and a new, harsher, Fugitive Slave act is to be enacted. |
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| Why did Clay leave Washington, and who filled his position? |
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| He left because of discouragement from his compromise being failed, and Stephen A Douglass filled his position? |
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| How was the Compromise of 1850 carried out? |
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| By passing each section as a different resolution in Congress |
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| President _______ died in office, and was succeeded by _____________. |
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| ____________ wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin |
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| Uncle Tom's Cabin delivered the message that |
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| Slavery was not just a political contest, but also a moral struggle. |
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| Because of Uncle Tom's Cabin, |
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| Abolitionists increased their protests against the Fugitive Slave Act, and the South viewed it as an attack against themselves. |
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| The ________ was a bill organized by ________ to split some of the western territory into two states (____________) |
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| Kansas-Nebraska Act, Douglass, Kansas and Nebraska. |
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| If the Kansas-Nebraska act were passed, it would |
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| Repeal the Missouri Compromise, and use popular sovereignty in Kansas and Nebraska. |
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| The Kansas-Nebraska Act became a law in |
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| During the popular sovereignty, people decided to |
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| Jump the border into Kansas, to vote that Kansas were to become a slave state |
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| People who came into Kansas to vote on slavery during popular sovereignty were known as |
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| Kansas became a _______, because of ________ |
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| Slave state, people crossing the border. |
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| Abolitionists established a town called |
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| Lawrence was _______ by slave owners, but _______. |
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| ______ was a crazy guy who though god told him _______________ |
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| John Brown, fight slavery through violence. |
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| John Brown heard that ________ in the sack of Lawrence |
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| John Brown killed 5 people down at the ____________, whom he thought were involved with the sack of Lawrence, which set off a chain of events leading to |
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| Pottatomie River, over 200 deaths |
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| Congressman _____ from ____ gave a speech about ______ in ______ |
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| Sumner, Massachusetts, the evils of slavery, the south |
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| Sumner makes fun of an ____________, and his __________________. |
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| Old southern congressman / plantation owner, nephew beat Sumner's brains out with a cane |
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| The North views Sumner's attack as _____________, and the South _____. |
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| The way the South does things, celebrates. |
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| The ____ Party is split over the issue of _____. |
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| _________ became the Whig nominee for president in _____. |
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| General Winfield Scott, 1852. |
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| ______ Whigs did not vote in the 1852 presidential election because of _____'s stance on _____. |
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| _____ candidate ________ won the Presidential election on 1852. |
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| Democratic, Franklin Pierce. |
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| The favoring of native-born Americans over immigrants. |
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| The _______ were the alternative party dedicated to ______. |
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| The ______ used secret handshake and passwords, and were also known as the ________________. |
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| American Party, Know-Nothing Party. |
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| Members of the American Party were told to respond to any question with '_________' |
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| The expansion of slavery into new territories |
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| Many non-abolitionist northerners were _________ because they were not for ___________. |
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| Free-Soilers, setting current slaves free |
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| The _________ Party was formed from discontented __________, ________, and _______. |
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| Republican, northern Whigs, antislavery advocates, Free-Soilers |
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| The Republican Party was founded by: |
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| The main goal of the Republican Party was to |
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| Keep slavery out of new territories |
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| The Republican Party contained members from ________ to ________, and because of this, were very _____ and ______. |
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| Conservatives (Missouri Compromise), radicals (abolitionists), diverse, powerful |
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| In the 1860 president election, the Republican candidate was |
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| In the 1860 president election, the Know-Nothing candidate was |
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| Fremont and Millard Fillmore. |
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| In the 1860 president election, the Democrat candidate was |
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| James Buchanan, who was from the North, but also popular in the South. |
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| Who won the 1860 presidential election? |
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| What were 3 important implications of the 1860 presidential election? |
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| Democrats could win by using someone who was popular in both the North and South, the Know-Nothings were in decline, and the Republicans were a political force in the north |
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| The _________________ were a series of debates over a _______. |
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| Lincoln-Douglass Debates, senate seat |
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| Stephen Douglass believed that |
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| Lincoln was wrong for wanting to end slavery, Lincoln wanting to end slavery could bring civil war, and popular sovereignty should be used in determining if a state should be a slave or free state |
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| Abraham Lincoln believed that |
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| Slavery is evil and should be kept out of new territories, and that all African Americans were guaranteed 'life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness' |
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| Who won the disputed senate seat between Lincoln and Douglass? |
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| Douglass, but only by a small margin |
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| A slave from Missouri, who moved to Wisconsin with his master for four years, and when they moved back to Missouri, the master died. |
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| What made the Missouri Compromise mean nothing? |
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| The supreme court ruling in Dred Scott vs. Sanford that stated that Congress did not have the right to outlaw slavery in any territory |
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| Who won the 1860 presidential election? |
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| Lincoln, by a very small margin |
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| Which political party ignored the issue of slavery? |
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| the Constitutional Union Party |
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| _______ is the first state to secede, on _______. |
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| South Carolina, December 20, 1860 |
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| States that followed South Carolina's secession were: |
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| Mississippi, Florida, Texas, and Georgia. |
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| The first president of the Confederate States of America was |
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| The Confederate States had a government based on |
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| Problems with secession included: |
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| That Washington DC is in the south, and there were southerners in Congress and the Cabinet. |
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