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Mr Buck ch 10
A Nation Divided
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8th Grade
04/28/2009

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Abraham Lincoln
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Candidate for Senate who argued that slavery was morally wrong
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secede
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to make a formal withdrawal of membership from a political alliance, federation, or group
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propaganda
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false or misleading information that is spread to further a cause
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John C Calhoun
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Senator from S. Carolina who opposed the Compromise of 1850
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popular sovereignty
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process that allows people in a state or territory to vote directly on an issue rather than having thei elected representatives decide
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Roger Taney
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 chief justice of the United States Supreme Court; remembered for his ruling that slaves and their descendants have no rights as citizens
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John Brown
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abolitionist who lead a raid on U.S. Army weapons stored at Harpers Ferry
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Daniel Webster
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a senator from Massachusetts and the most powerful speaker of his time who was involved in the Webster-Hayne debate
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California's call to join the Union in 1850 would have?
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given free states an advantage over slave states
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How did the South react to Abraham Lincoln's election as president in 1860?
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seven southern states seceded and formed the Confederate States of America
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What caused some Democrats and Whigs to form the Free-Soil Party and make southerners become increasingly concerned that the North was trying to end slavery in the United States and leave the issue of new territories gained from Mexico undecided?
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the Wilmont Proviso
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What made slaves property, even if they lived in a free territory
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Dred Scott decision
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What was the famous abolitionst song about the raid at Harpers Ferry?
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John Brown's Body
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What was the main purpose meant by the song John Brown's body
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that John Brown's spirit inspired other abolitionists
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What famous senator would agree that states rights are more important than preserving the union?
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John C. Calhoun
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What decided the outcome of the presidential election of 1860
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Regional attitudes toward slavery
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In the licoln Douglas debates, Abraham Lincoln _________
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insisted that the territories be kept free from slavery
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Three direct causes of the Civil War were
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Seven southern states seceeded from the Union

Abarham Lincoln was elected president

Confederate troops attaked Fort Sumter

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What two new territories with popular soverignty were created in 1854?
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Kansas and Nebraska
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California entered the Union as a free state in the
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Compromise of 1850
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How did the Dred Scott decsion widen the gap between the North and South?
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pleased the South angered the North court rulled slaves were property no matter where they lived in the country federal government was prohibited from restricting slavery anywhere in the country made compromise of 1850 and Kansas Nebraska act unconstitutional
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