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Chapter 15 & 16 Civil War Causes 8th
Chapter 16 Civil War Causes 8th
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05/01/2012

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Chapter 16 Civil War Causes
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Abraham Lincoln
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Won the election of 1860 despite the fact his name did not appear on Southern ballots
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Bleeding Summer
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Term used to describe a brutal beating of a politician while he was speaking in the Senate
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Stephen Douglas
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Was in a series of debates against Abraham Lincoln while running for an Illinois Senate seat
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Kansas-Nebraska Act
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Divided a territory into two parts
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Wilmot Proviso
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Attempted to ban slavery in territories won from Mexico (Mexican Cession)
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Compromise of 1850
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Allowed California to become a Free State
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Border Ruffian
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Proslavery person who rode from Missouri to Kansas to battle antislavery forces
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Fort Sumter
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This is where the Civil War began
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Jefferson Davis
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This man was president of the Confederacy (South)
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Dred Scott
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This man was declared to be property by the Supreme Court
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John Freemont
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He was the 1st Republican presidential candidate
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John Brown
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This man believed that God wanted him to end slavery using violence
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General Beauregard
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This man is the Southern commander who attacked Fort Sumter
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Free-Soil Party
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Formed in 1848 to ban slavery in the west
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The compromise Henry Clay proposed for making Missouri a state
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Admit Missouri as a Slave State and Maine as a Free State
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The effects of the Missouri Compromise
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Helped make the number of Free and Slave States equal for almost 30 years
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NOT part of the Compromise of 1850
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Slavery is banned in New Mexico and Utah
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Popular sovereignty
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Voting
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Led to the violence in Kansas in 1855
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The murder of Pro-slavery settlers by John Brown
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Led to the forming of the Republican Party in the 1850s
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The death of the Whig Party
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Dred Scott decision
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Declared the Missouri Compromise unconstitutional
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Abraham Lincoln
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His debates with Stephen Douglas won him fame as an opponent of slavery
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After Abraham Lincoln was elected President
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It caused the South to declare war on the North
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The result of the Presidential election of 1860
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Abraham Lincoln won despite the fact that he did not win even one Southern state.
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How the Civil War began
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Confederate troops attacked Fort Sumter, South Carolina
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Goal of the Free Soil Party
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To ban slavery in the Western territories
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The Missouri Compromise applied to
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Lands in the Louisiana Purchase
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The issue that led to the Compromise of 1850
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Admitting California to the Union in 1850 gave Free States an advanatage over Slave States
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Bleeding Summer
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Name for violence that erupted on the Senate floor
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The goals of the Republican Party and the Free Soil Party are alike because
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Both wanted to keep slavery out of the Western territories
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The Dred Scott decision
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Said Slaves were not allowed to sue in court because they were considered property
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Fort Sumter South Carolina
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Where Confederate forces fired the first shots of the Civil War
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How Southerners reacted to Abraham Lincoln's election
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Seven Southern states seceded and formed the Confederate States of America
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