Which groups supported the newly formed Republican Party?
Northern Democrats and Free-Soil Party
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What was Abraham Lincoln's stance about slavery during the Lincoln-Douglas debates?
He thought that slavery shouldn't be spread to the newly admitted states and that it will die out on its own.
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Who was Roger B. Taney?
Chief Justice who wrote a controversial Supreme Court decision in 1857
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How did Northerners react to John Brown's raid?
The North praised the man and thought of him as a hero
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Lincoln served in the state legislature and was a Congressman as a Whig, before running for president.
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True
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Why was Lincoln reluctant to give up Fort Sumter?
Lincoln feared giving it up would show weakness and encourage further secession
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Why did the South and North choose separate candidates from each region?
The North and South felt they couldn't trust a candidate from the other region.
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Who was Dred Scott?
An enslaved person who sued for his freedom
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Who did the southerners agree with more after the Lincoln-Douglas debate?
Douglas
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How do you think Harriet Beecher Stowe reacted to the verdict of the Dred Scott case?
Furious, angry, sad, disheartened, disbelief
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What were two effects of Lincoln's warning to the South?
-the seceding states took over US property -South Carolina cut off food supplies to Fort Sumter -Lincoln sent food to the fort -Confederate fired on Fort Sumter
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What position did Douglas take on slavery?
He thought voters should decide
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Why did Dred Scott claim he was no longer enslaved?