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two parts of fugitive slave act |
deprived someone of freedom from one white person; northerns were required to help capture runaways. |
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reaction of many northerns to uncle tom's cabin |
shocked them |
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harriet beecher stowe |
published Uncle Tom's Cabin |
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stephen A. douglas |
illinois senator that proposed the kansas-nebraska act |
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number of voters in 1855 election |
3000 |
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number of votes cast |
8000 |
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kansas-nebraska act |
method used to determine the status of slavery in the kansas and nebraska territory. |
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douglas proposed that slavery in the new territories be decided by |
popular sovereighnty |
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henry clay |
proposed the compromise of 1850 |
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california was admitted a as |
free state (compromise of 1850) |
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slave trade banned |
nations capitol (D.C) (compromise of 1850) |
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would decide slavery in the rest of the SW territory |
popular soverighnty (compromise of 1850) |
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southerners got a tough new |
fugitive slave law (compromise of 1850 ) |
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goal of compromise of 1850 |
to end slavery crisis by giving supporters and opponents of slavery some of what they wanted |
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gov officials can capture and person accused of being a |
runaway slave (fugitive slave act) |
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suspects had no right to a |
trial (fugitive slave act) |
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were required to help capture accused runaways |
northerners (fugitive slave act) |
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results of fugitive slave act |
thousands of african americans fled to canada |
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results of kansas-nebraska act |
undid missouri compromise, reopened issue of slavery in territories, northerners outraged |
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thousands of missourians entered what illigally |
kansas (kanas election) |
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antislavery settlers held a second what |
government (kanas election) |
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results of kansas election of 1855 |
kansas has two governments, violence broke out. |
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what name did the violence give kansas |
bleeding kansas |
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roger b. taney |
supreme court chief justice that ruled that scott had no right to sue in federal court |
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john c. fremont |
first republican canidate for president |
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the right that protected slavery in all states according to the Dred Scott decision |
property rights |
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dred scott |
an enslaved person who sued for his freedom |
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abraham lincoln |
an illinois attorney who was elected to the house as a Whig. |
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three groups that helped republican party |
northern democrats, free soilers, and republicans |
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lincoln ran for illinois senate seat against who |
stephen douglas |
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john brown |
an abolitionist who had been driven out of kansas after the pottawatomie |
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part of country where brown was considered a hero |
the north |
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lincoln's opposition to the what led him to run as a republican |
kansas nebraska act |
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douglas's stand on popular sovereighnty |
states have right to be slave or free |
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lincoln's stand on african americans |
they are not socially or politically equal to whites but they should be entitled to the rights of the declaration of independence |
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lincoln's stand on slavery |
morally wrong, would die out on own, cant be allowed on west |
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lincoln's position on the union |
will not survive half slave half free |
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john browns plan |
to seize guns the us. army stored in virginia |
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what is a civil war |
a war between opposing groups of citizens in the same country |
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how did lincoln win the presidential election without receiving a majority of the popular votes |
won on electorial votes |
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event that marked the beginning of the american civil war |
attack on fort sumter |
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why were there four canidates in the election |
pro and anti slavers chose different groups |
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northern democratic canidate |
douglas |
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southern democratic canidate |
breckinridge |
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constitutional union canidate |
bell |
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republican canidate |
lincoln |
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capitol of confederacy |
virginia |
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the election showed how what the nation was |
divided |
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first state to secede from union |
south carolina |
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why did south caroline secede from the union ? |
it learned that lincoln had won the election |
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who were the southern leaders who opposed secession |
johnson and davis |
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name of the southern nation |
confederate states of america |
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president of the southern nation |
davis |
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lincolns message to seceding states |
meant no harm; would not interfere with slavery |
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response to lincolns message from seceding states |
rejection, seized federal property |
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lincolns plan to deal with the siege of fort sumter |
send food to fort, but on supply ships carry no troops or guns |
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south carolinas response to lincolns plan |
to capture fort sumter and set fire, there for starting the civil war |
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main question raised by the southwest territory was |
would slavery be allowed in the west |
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most southerners believed lincoln |
would abolish slavery |
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wilmont provisosed |
slavery should be banned in SW territory |
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