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What was the Fugitive Slave Act?
A law that provided for harsh treatment for escaped slaves and those who helped them
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Who wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin?
Harriet Beecher Stowe
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What is secession?
A formal withdrawal of a state from the Union
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Who was Dred Scott?
A slave who was briefly taken by his owner into free territory
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Who was Horace Greeley?
A newspaper editor who strongly supported the newly-fprmed Republican Party
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Did the North or South promote the Wilmot Proviso and why?
The North promoted it because they wanted California, New Mexico & Utah closed to slavery
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What was the reason that Abraham Lincoln and Stephen Douglas debated?
They debated over whether the territories should be slave or non-slave states
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Who was Jefferson Davis?
The President of the Confederate States of America
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What is nativism?
Nativism favors native-born people over immigrants
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What states were included in the Confederacy?
Texas, Arkansas, Alabama, Georgia, Florida, North & South Carolina, Louisiana, Tennessee, Mississippi & Virginia
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What was the Confederacy?
The Confederate States of America were formed in 1861 by the Southern states that seceeded
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What was the platform of the Know-Nothing Party?
anti-immigration and anti-Catholic
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What was Harper's Ferry?
The location of a federal arsenal that John Brown raided to get guns to arm slaves
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Who was John Brown?
A fierce opponent of slavery who led a raid on a federal arsenal
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What were the major points of the Dred Scott case?
The Court ruled that slaves did not have rights & the Missouri Compromise was unconstitutional
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Who was a primary active member of the Underground Railroad?
Harriet Tubman
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Who developed the Compromise of 1850?
Henry Clay shaped it and got Daniel Webster's support
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What famous American helped found the Republican Party?
Horace Greeley
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What was the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
A law that split Nebraska into the territories of Nebraska and Kansas through popular sovereignty
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