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Toward Civil War
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1
What Supreme Court Decision divided the nation even more?
Mississippi Court Case
The Dred Scott Decision
John Brown Case
Clay's Ruling
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How did Southerners justify their decision to secede?
Mutual Assured Destruction
They do what they want!
States Rights
Abraham Lincoln was unfairly elected.
3
Who wrote the essay "Civil Disobedience"?
Jefferson Davis
Henry David Thoreau
John Crittenden
Abraham Lincoln
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Who was the Republican presidential candidate in 1856?
Abraham Lincoln
John C Fremont
Millard Fillmore
James Buchanan
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What was Henry Clay's idea for deciding whether a territory would be a slave or free state?
Popular Sovereignty
Kansas Act
Abolitionism
Missouri Compromise
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Who was Roger B. Taney?
A violent abolitionist
The man who proposed the Missouri Compromise
A fugitive slave
The Cheif Justice of the Supreme Court
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What is popular sovereignty?
popular people should choose
granting constitutional rights
letting the president decide
letting the people decide
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Who won the presidential election of 1860?
John C. Calhoun
Abraham Lincoln
Millard Fillmore
John Bell
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Who was John Brown?
Dred Scott's master
a violent abolitionist
Lincoln's opponent
a Know-Nothing Candidate
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Loyalty to your region
secession
racism
popular sovereignty
sectionalism
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Enforcement of the Fugitive Slave Act led to...
more anger in the north
compromise
an end to the struggle over slavery
recognition of southern rights
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What made it so that a person could be fined or imprisoned for aiding fugitive slaves?
The Missouri Compromise
The Dred Scott Decision
The Fugitive Slave Act
The Kansas-Nebraska Act
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Which party endorsed the Wilmot Proviso?
The Know-Nothing Party
The Democrats
The Whigs
The Free-Soil Party
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Where was the first attack of the Civil War?
Kansas
Maryland
Harper's Ferry
Fort Sumter
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Who was the president of the Confederacy?
James Buchanan
Jefferson Davis
Abraham Lincoln
Jason Motz
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Who proposed an amendment to the constitution that would protect slavery in the South?
Zachary Taylor
Stephen A. Douglas
Abraham Lincoln
John Crittenden
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What did the Missouri Compromise propose?
Popular Sovereignty
36 30N Latitude dividing slave and free states
All territories should outlaw slavery
Missouri would be a free state
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Who became president in 1853?
Franklin Pierce
Roger B. Taney
Zachary Taylor
Abraham Lincoln
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What state's Senate race became a center of national attention in 1858?
Ohio
Missouri
South Carolina
Illinois
