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Causes of the US Civil War part 1
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What was Henry Clay's nickname?
The Great Compromiser
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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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People who crossed the border of Kansas and illegaly voted for slavery were called what?
Border Ruffians
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Who came up with the idea and helped pass the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
Stephen Douglas
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The Dred Scott Case ruled what compromise unconstitutional?
Missouri Compromise
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Who was the Senator from Massachusetts beaten with a cane for talking poorly about another Senator and about slavery.
Charles Sumner
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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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Who led a raid in Kansas and hacked pro-slavery people, leaving their mutilated bodies out for others to see.
John Brown
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The Kansas-Nebraska Act did away with what compromise passed in 1820?
Missouri Compromise
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Who would be seen as a hero in the North and a Villain
John Brown
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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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Who won the election of 1848 and became president?
Zachary Taylor
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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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Identifying with or having loyalty to a region or state instead of the country as a whole
Sectionalism
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In the Compromise of 1850 a border dispute was settled between Texas and what territory?
New Mexico
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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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False or misleading information in order to further a cause
Propaganda
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Who won the election of 1860, which caused Southern states to secede?
Abraham Lincoln
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According to the Missouri Compromise what was the line of latitude that separated free from slave?
36 30
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To break away from or leave
Secede
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a runaway slave
fugitive
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What new political party was created as a result of the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
Republican
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Who was the Free Soil candidate in the election of 1848?
Martin Van Buren
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Did the Supreme Court decide to free Dred Scott?
No
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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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In the Compromise of 1850 what free state was added?
California
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Stephen Douglas wanted the transcontinental railroad to go through his home state of?
Illinois
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The person who spoke for the south and was opposed to the Compromise of 1850?
John C. Calhoun
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Why did Dred Scott claim he should not be a slave?
He was brought into free states and territories and therefore should not have been a slave there.
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Under the Missouri Compromise which state was added as a free state?
Maine
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In the Compromise of 1850 how was the issue of slavery going to be decided in the Utah and New Mexico territories?
Popular Sovereignty (voting)
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