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| What are some long term causes of the civil war |
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Failure of americans to compromise westward expantion-growth of the US
Sectionalish : North and south developed different societies. |
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| What are some imediate causes of the civil war |
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Election of Abraham lincolin and secession of southern states
Also the attackt on ft sumner
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Educated slave that escaped he could read and write
Spoke out against slavery and fleed to europe
Such a great speaker that supporters vought his freedom and he returned to the U.S. To speak about slavery |
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Runaway slave that became a conductor on the underground railroad.
Seen as a criminal by the south |
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Who is Harriet Beecher Stowe |
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Northener that wrote uncle toms cabin
South believed she painted an unclear view of slavery |
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| When was uncle toms cabin made |
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| White abolitionist that started a slave rebelion he planed to attack a federal arsenal he was stopped by a us general robert |
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| Where was Johns brown rebelion |
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What was the Missouri
compromise |
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| A compromise that made the number of slave states and free states equal |
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| Where was the misouri compromise line |
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| What caused the dispute over california |
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| The fact that california wanted to join the union while they had an even number of slave and free states |
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| What is the compromise of 1850 |
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The compromise of 1850 had 5 parts these
1) allowed California to enter the union as a free state
2) it divided the rest of the MExican Cession into the territories of New Mexico and Utah
3) It ended the slave trade in washington
4) it had a strict fugitive law
5) it also settled a border dispute between texas and new mexico |
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| what is the fugitive slave act |
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| An act that required all citezins to catch their runaway slaves |
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| What is the Kansas Nebraska act |
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| The act of seperating nebraska into kansas and nebraska and then they both get to chose by popular soveringhty whether or not its slave |
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| Why did people dislike the kansas nebraska act |
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| because it overrulled the missouri comprimise |
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| why was kansas called bleeding kansas |
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| it was attacked by proslavery peole for being antislavery and then john brown came and killed 5 proslavery peole which made more people attack |
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| what was the dred scott case |
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| a slave m,oved to a free state and his ruler died and the slave wanted to know if he was free |
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| what was the result of the dred scott case |
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| how did people respond to the dred scott case |
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| south were happy north were angry |
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| why were south happy about the dred scott case |
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| they were happy because they did not support slavery |
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| why did northeners get mad at the dred scott case |
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| because they liked him and they thought he should be free |
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| what party did lincolin represent |
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| who made the republican party |
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free soilers northern democrats and antislavery whigs
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| WHAT WAS THE REPUBLICAN PARTIES GOAL |
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| THEY WANTED TO KEEP SLAVERY OUT OF THE WEST |
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| Ont the KEntucky frontier |
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| What happed to johnm brown because of his raid |
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| he was sentenced to death |
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| what was john brown guilty of |
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| whaqt did some peole consider john brown |
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| What happened because of lincolins election |
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| What was the forst state to seceede |
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| why did the southeners seceede |
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| They thought lincolin would deny the southeners the right to own slaves |
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What was henry clays nickname
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| the man who made the misouri compromise |
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| What was one of the biggest reasons for the civil war |
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| what were the 3 positions of slavery |
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| abolitionist free soiler and proslavery |
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| a war among the same country |
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