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SS8H5a. Explain the importance of key issues and events that led to the Civil War
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Northern Democrats - Popular Sovereignty
John Bell
Abraham Lincoln
Stephen Douglas
John Breckenridge
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Under what president did the Nullification Crisis occur?
John Quincy Adams
John Adams
Andrew Jackson
Thomas Jefferson
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Who was the nullification crisis between
South Carolina and government
The south and the government
The world
Britain and Spain
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Act of withdrawing from a state or a union; desire to leave the union
Style
Structure
State's Rights
Secession
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Slave taken into free territory and sued saying he was free -Supreme Court: slaves are property
Compromise of 1850
Dred Scott Case
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Missouri Compromise
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Constitutional Union Party- Support the Union
John Bell
Stephen Douglas
Abraham Lincoln
John Breckenridge
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What was the Georgia Platform?
a statement supporting popular sovereignty
support for the Compromise of 1850 if the Fugitive Slave Act was added.
a statement supporting slavery throughout the U.S.
a statement supporting states' rights
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Legislation passed by Congress in 1820 Maine entered as a free state; Missouri as a slave state
Missouri Compromise
Compromise of 1850
Dred Scott Decision
Kansas-Nebraska Act
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Legislation passed where California entered as a free state - stronger Fugitive Slave Law
Compromise of 1850
Dred Scott Decision
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Missouri Compromise
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Who favored the GA Platform, but then became VP of the Confederacy?
Henry Clay
Abraham Lincoln
Howell Cobb
Alexander Stephens
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Who won the election of 1860 which pushed the South to secede from the Union?
John C. Breckenridge
Stephen A. Douglas
John Bell
Abraham Lincoln
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Supported the Compromise of 1850 because we knew it was the only way to stay in the union
State's Rights
Georgia Platform
Sectionalism
Abolitionists
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Republican Party - Protective tariffs; Free western land to settlers; try not to end slavery
Abraham Lincoln
John Breckenridge
John Bell
Stephen Douglas
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People in a given area think their ideas/ interests are correct & more important than any other
Style
State's Rights
Solvency
Sectionalism
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What was the South's view of secession?
Could only live as they wished is they seceded
Keep the union together at any cost
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Condition of being a slave or the practice of owning slaves
Solvency
Slavery
States' Rights
Sectionalism
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Which was the first state to secede from the Union?
Alabama
South Carolina
Georgia
Florida
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Southern Democrats - Slaves allowed in all territories
Abraham Lincoln
Stephen Douglas
John Bell
John Breckenridge
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Belief that states interests should take precedence over the interest of the national gov.
Slavery
State's Rights
Sectionalism
Solvency
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What caused the Nullification Crisis?
Southern states wanted to overturn a federal law
Trail of Tears
Indian Removal Act
State governments taxed the Federal Government
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Contained a clause on popular sovereignty which changed the Missouri compromise
Missouri Compromise
Dred Scott Decision
Compromise of 1850
Kansas-Nebraska Act
