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| When the war with Mexico ended in 1848, Congress had |
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| not resolved the status of slavery in the territories that the United States gained. |
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| Some Northerners were opposed to the extension of slavery into the land gained from the war with Mexico because they |
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| were hostile to African Americans and wanted to reserve new lands for whites. |
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| In the debate over the Wilmot Proviso, John C. Calhoun contended that Congress did not have the authority to ban slavery in the territories because |
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| Congress could not deprive any state of equal rights in the nation's territories. |
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| The most attractive feature of Lewis Cass's doctrine of popular sovereignty was that it |
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| was ambiguous about the moment at which the fate of slavery would be decided. |
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| The issue that undermined the Compromise of 1850s was |
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| runaway slaves in New England. |
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| Starting in the 1830s, northern states had started to provide fugitive slaves with protection from their owners by means of |
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| The Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 allowed the seizure of alleged slaves after a slaveholder or his agent |
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| appeared before an appointed commissioner and swore the slave was his. |
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| A significant number of Northerners were turned against slavery in the 1850s by |
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| The most crucial result of the 1854 Kansas-Nebraska Act was that it |
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realigned the nation's two major political parties.
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| The new political party system of the 1850s |
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| made political compromise difficult. |
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| The Whig Party's showing in the presidential election of 1852 demonstrated that it |
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| no longer had strong national support. |
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| In the 1850s, the Democrats remained relatively united by |
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| supporting popular sovereignty. |
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| In 1855, popular sovereignty in Kansas led to |
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| the formation of two governments |
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| South Carolina representative Preston Brooks's attack on Massachusetts senator Charles Sumner had the effect of |
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giving the Republican Party a symbol of southern villainy.
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| Dred Scott based his claim to freedom on |
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| his master's intention of freeing him. |
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| Chief Justice Roger B. Taney's 1857 decision in the Dred Scott case ruled that |
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a. blacks were not citizens of the United States.
b. travel in free territories did not make slaves free.
c. Congress could not prohibit slavery in the territories. |
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| Before the 1850s, Southerners used threats of secession to |
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| gain concessions within the Union. |
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| Most Northerners believed that John Brown's 1859 raid on Harpers Ferry, Virginia, was |
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| a lawless act of unwarranted violence. |
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| Shortly before the 1860 presidential election, a southern business convention meeting in Nashville, Tennessee, shocked Northerners and many Southerners by calling for |
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| the reopening of the African slave trade. |
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| In 1860, Jefferson Davis of Mississippi presented Congress with an extreme proslavery demand for |
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| a federal slave code in the territories. |
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