Causes of the US Civil War part 1 | Baamboozle - Baamboozle

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Missouri Compromise, Wilmot Proviso, Free Soil Party, Compromise of 1850, and Uncle Tom's Cabin.

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Under the Missouri Compromise which state was added as a free state?

Maine

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According to the Missouri Compromise what was the line of latitude that separated free from slave?

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Who was the person that came up with the Missouri Compromise and the Compromise of 1850?

Henry Clay

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David Wilmot came up with a proposal to ban slavery from all lands gained from what country?

Mexico

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What new political party was formed because Democrats and Whigs would not state their ideas about what they wanted to do with slavery?

Free Soil Party

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Who was the Free Soil candidate in the election of 1848?

Martin Van Buren

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Who won the election of 1848 and became president?

Zachary Taylor

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In the Compromise of 1850 what free state was added?

California

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In the Compromise of 1850 what happened with the slave trade in Washington DC?

It was abolished (but Congress could not ban slave trade between slave states)

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The Missouri Compromise line that separated free from slave only applied where?

In the Louisiana Purchase Territory

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Why did the Wilmot Proviso not pass in the Senate?

There were an equal number of slave and free states

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Who was the author of Uncle Tom's Cabin?

Harriet Beecher Stowe

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To break away from or leave

Secede

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Identifying with or having loyalty to a region or state instead of the country as a whole

Sectionalism

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False or misleading information in order to further a cause

Propaganda

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a runaway slave

fugitive

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