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| Who was Harriet Beecher Stowe? |
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She was an abolitionist/writer who wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin while researching slavery. |
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| What were the effects of Uncle Tom's Cabin? |
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| Effects were that it gave the North the full idea of what slavery really was in the South explaining slavery as a cruel and inhuman system. |
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| What two territories did Stephen A. Douglas want to open? |
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| Why did Stephen A. Douglas propose Kansas and Nebraska? |
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| Because he was trying to further expand the nation, even though it caused arguement about the balance of slave vs. free states again. |
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| Why did Stephan A. Douglas want to abolish the Mason Dixon Line and the Missouri Compromise? |
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| Because he wanted to allow states to vote on slavery because Kansas and Nebraska would become free states which would upset the South unless the compromise was abolished. |
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| What is the definition of popular sovereignty? |
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| the right to allow people living in a territory to decide if it should have slavery |
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| What was the Kansas-Nebraska act? |
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| an act that would allow for slavery to be decided by the people above the Mason Dixon Line. |
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| True or false? In the decision of slavery in Kansas, there were more voters than people who were residents in the state. |
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| What is the definition of a border ruffian? |
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| Missourian who traveled in armed groups to vote in Kansas's election. |
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After its election, was Kansas a free or a slave state? |
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| True or false? 2 governments existed in Kansas after its election. |
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| True, 1 government proslavery and the other antislavery who armed themselves. |
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| What was the antislavery capital in Kansas? |
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| an abolitionist who believed God chose him to attack slavery. |
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| What did John Brown and others do at Pottawatomie Creek? |
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| They seized and killed 5 supporters of slavery. |
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| What is the definition of a civil war? |
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| a conflict between citizens of the same country. |
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| How did the bloodshed in Kansas stop? |
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| Governor John Geary sent federal troops in to stop the madness. |
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He was a senator from Massachussetts who delivered speeches attacking proslavery senators. |
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He was a house of representatives member who came in and beat Charles Sumner with a cane. |
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| What conflict did Charles Sumner and Preston Brooks have with eachother? |
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| Sumner was beaten down severely with a cane by Brooks and never came back to congress for several years because of the incident. |
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