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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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