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Slavery Divides the Nation
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7th Grade
05/24/2011

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Who suggested the Missouri Compromise?
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Henry Clay
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What was the Free Soil Party?
Definition
antislavery groups joined into a political party
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Why was the Free Soil Party founded?
Definition
to keep slavery out of the Western Territories
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What state was trying to get into the Union caused the Compromise of 1850?
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South Carolina
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Who was known as the Great Compromiser?
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Henry Clay
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Who was the South Carolina Senator who spoke for the South?
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Calhoun
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What are first two things did the Compromise of 1850 decide?
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1. California could enter the Union as a free state.
2. Divided the Mexican Cession into the territories of New Mexico and Utah. Voters used popular sovereighty to decide the question of slavery.
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What are the rest of the things the Compromise of 1850 decided?
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3. Slave Trade was ended in Washington DC, but states would have to ban it within their borders.
4. Strict fugitive slave law.
5. Settled a border dispute between Texas and New Mexico.
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What novel changed the way the North thought about slavery?
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Uncle Tom's Cabin
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What is popular Sovereignty?
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the right of people to create their government
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Who wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin?
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Harriet Beecher Stowe
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Who suggested the Kansas- Nebraska Act?
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Douglas
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Why was their violence in Kansas?
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proslavery and antislavery sent settlers to Kansas to fight for control of the territory Border Ruffians
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Kansas nickname was?
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Bleeding Kansas
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What happened at Pottawatomie Creek?
Definition
John Brow struck back and pulled men from their houses and murdered them in the middle of the night
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guerilla warfare
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the use of hit - and - run tactics
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name of the Court Case of a slave filing for freedom?
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Dred Scott vs. Sanford
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What was decided over the Case?
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That he was enslaved so he had no right and the Court said slaves were property based on decision
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Why was the Republican Party founded?
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to keep slavery out of western territories
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What is the difference between anti-slavery and abolitionists
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anti-slavery do not like slavery but abolitionists try to stop it
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What happended at Harpers Ferry?
Definition
Brow planned to raid a federal arsenal
troops killed ten raiders and captured him because of Robert E. Lee
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How did the North and South react?
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Mostly the same they thought it was insane that he would do that
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Who won the election of 1860?
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Lincoln
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What was the first state to secede the union?
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South Carolina
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What was the name of the new southern nation?
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Confederate States of America
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Who was the president of the Confederate States of America?
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Davis of Mississippi
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Where did the Civil War begin?
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Fort Sumter
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How long was the Civil War?
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4 years
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How many books in the old testament library?
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39
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How many books in the new testament library?
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27
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How many books in all?
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66
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What are the three languages?
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Hebrew,Greek,and Aramic
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Greek
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Biblioo
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Septuangint
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430 b.C.
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n.T. accepted by...
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350 A.D.
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First english translations
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1384
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What is the symbol of Noah or sign?
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rainbow
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What is the symbol of Abraham or sign?
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circumcision
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Who are Patriocs?
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Abraham Issac Jacob Joseph
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Jeremiah
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400 B.C.
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Jeremiah
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new convenant
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North Israel
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10 tribes
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how manny good kings
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