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| By opposing the proslavery Lecompton Constitution in Kansas, Senator Stephen A. Douglas was able to unite the Democratic party. t or f |
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| false - Douglas's opposition to the Lecompton Constitution divided the Democrats |
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| Both South Carolina and Massachusetts defiantly reelected the principal figures in the Brooks-Sumner beating incident. t or f |
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| republicans considered the Supreme Court's Dred Scott decision invalid and vowed to defy it. t or f |
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| what caused the crash of 1857 |
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| inpouring California gold inflated currency and the demands of the Crimean War had overstimulated the growing of grain, while frenzied speculation in land and railroads had further ripped the economic fabric |
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| What kind of opposition came to the scheme to make outright gifts of homesteads |
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| eastern industrialists feared that their underpaid workers would be drained off to the west: south knew that gang-labor slavery could not flourish on a mere 160 acres (free farms of 160 acres would be given to the pioneers) |
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| In the Lincoln-Douglas debates, Lincoln forced Douglas to abandon his support for popular sovereignty. t or f |
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| false - DOuglas adhered to popular sovereignty despite Lincoln's criticism |
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| Southern Democrats walked out of the Democratic party in 1860 when northerners nominated Stephen A. Douglas for president t or f |
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| the election of 1860 was really two campaigns, Lincoln versus Douglas in the North and Bell versus Breckinridge in the south. t or f |
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| seven states seceded and formed the confederate states of america during the lame-duck period between lincoln's election and his inauguration. t or f |
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| hinton r. helper's The Impending Crisis of the South contended that |
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| slavery deeply harmed the poor whites of the South |
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| as presented to congress, the lecompton constitution provided for |
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| the admission of kansas as a slave state |
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| the election of 1856 was most noteworthy for |
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| the dramatic rise of the Republican party |
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| the panic of 1857 encouraged the south to believe that |
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| its economy was fundamentally stronger that that of the North |
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| a key issue in the lincoln-douglas debates was |
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| whether the people of a territory could prohibit slavery in light of the Dred Scott decision |
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| lincoln won the presidency |
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| with an electoral majority derived only from the north |
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