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How did Northerners and Southerners view the Uncle Tom's Cabin differently?: The Northerners were very moved and bought 400,000 copies in a few months. Southerners branded the book a pack of lies and banned its sale
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How did the Kansas-nebraska Act make Kansas a battleground?: Since the Act allowed settlers to decide whether the new state would be a free state or slave state,activists from both sides flooded the state. Conflict and heightened emotions between the opposing sides made violence almost inevitable.
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Under what conditions did delegates to the 1850 Convention in Nashville decide not to secede?: They expected Congress to honor provisions in the Constitution protecting slavery.They expected the North to honor the Fugutive Slave Act
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What effect did the Northern abolitionists' defiance of the Fugitive Slave Law have on Southerners?: Southerners viewed the Northerners' defiance of the law as a direct attack on slavery
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What is popular sovereignty?: A vote by the residents of the territories to determine popular will
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What was the Underground Railroad?: The route to freedom for escaped slaves,including "stations" in barns,attics,cellars,and other hiding places along the way
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What were the provisions of thye Compromise of 1850?: California would be admitted as a free state.Utah and New Mexicao would decide the slavery issue for themselves{popular sovereignty}.Congress would ban the buying and selling of slaves in Washington,D.C. and would pass a stronger fugitive slave law
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Who formed the American party and why?: Native-born Ameican Protestants who resented new immigrants and orangized to fight immigration and Catholicism
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Who formed the Republic Party and why?: Antislavery Whigs, Northern Democrats, and Know-Nothings who opposed slavery
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Who were some of the prominent abolitionists?: Frederick Douglass,Sojurner Truth,Henry Highland Garnett, and William Lloyd Garrison
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Why did Northerners form the Republic Party?: Because instead of admitting Kansas and Nebraska as free states. Congress repealed the Missouri Compromise and passed the Kansas-Nebraska Act
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Why might Quakers have palyed a key role in the Abolitist movement?: Quakers believed that all peope are equal.This belief would make them reluctant to accept slavery
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Why was the Compromise of 1850 necessary?: Because California's entry into the Union as a free state upset the delicate between slave states and free states