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| who suggested the Missouri Compromise? |
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| what was the free soil party and why was it founded? |
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| to keep slavery out of the western territories |
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| what state trying to get into the union caused the Compromise of 1850? |
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| who was known as The Great Compromiser? |
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| who was the south carolina senator who spoke for the south? |
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| what 5 things did the compromise of 1850 decide? |
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| it allowed calafornia to enter the union as a free state, it divided the Mexican Cessesion, it ended slave trade in Washington, it included the fugitive law, and the border between Texas and New Mexico |
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| what is popular sovereignty? |
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| the right of people to create their gorvernment |
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| what novel changed the way the north thought about slavery and who wrote it? |
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| Uncle Toms Cabin by Harriat Beecher Stowe |
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| who suggested the kansas nebraska act? |
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| why was their violence in kansas? |
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| they couldn't settle the issue on slavery |
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| what was kansas's nickname? |
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| what happened at Pottawatomi Creek? |
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| 200people died, beggining of the civil war |
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| what is guerilla warfare? |
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| the use of hit and run attacks |
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| what was the name of the Court Case of a slave filling for freedom? |
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| why was the Republican Party founded |
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| to try to keep slavery out of the western territories |
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| what is the differece between anti-slavery and abolitionists |
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| anti-slavery want to get rid of it in the west and abolitionists want to get rid of it for good |
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| what happened at Harpers Ferry and how did the north and south react |
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| John Brow planned a arsenal, the north thought he was a hero and the south hated him |
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| who won the election of 1860? |
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| what was the first state to secede the union? |
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| what was the name of the new southern nation? |
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| the confederacy states of america |
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| who was the president of the southern nation? |
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| where did the Civil War begin? |
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| how long was the civil war? |
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| anti-slavery and african americans |
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