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What is the following compromise
O Missouri - slave state
O Maine - Free state
O Line drawn at 36 degrees North Latitude
O North of line free
O South of line slave |
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| O Missouri compromise of 1820 |
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| What is the definition of popular sovereignty? |
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| people shall have the right to make decisions for themselves |
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What is the following compromise
O California - free
O New Mexico and Utah - declare slavery by popular sovereignty
O slave trade stopped in D.C.
O new strict fugutive slave law
O Neither North or South satisfied |
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What is the followin act
O set up harsher punishment for helping run away slaves |
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| fugitive slave act (part of compromise of 1850) |
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What is the following act.
O Divide remaining La. territory into Kansas and Nebraska
O Kansas and Neb. would vote on slavery
O Cancelled the Missouri compromise line
O People moved to Kansas from North and South and fought over slavery |
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| Kansas/Nebraska Act (1854) |
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| At Bleeding Kansas, how many people died? |
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| Who was John Brown and what happened to him? |
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| Abolitionist, hanged for trying to take arms and give them to slaves to revolt (Kansas and Harpers Ferry, West Va. ) |
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| What was the Dred Scott dispute? |
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| Dred Scott was a slave who lived in a free territory and sued for his freedom |
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| When Dred Scott sued for his freedom, what did the Supreme Court say? |
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O Slaves can't sue
O Slaves are property
O Missouri compromise was unconstitutional and they cancelled it |
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