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John Brown
Radical abolitionist who led a failed raid at
Harpers Ferry, Virginia.

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Missouri Compromise
Agreement proposed by Henry Clay that kept
balance of free slave states by
making Missouri a slave state Maine a free
state.

• 1,2

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slavery
What was the main topic of the Lincoln-Douglas
debates?

• 1,3

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South Carolina
First state to secede.

• 1,4

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Jefferson Davis
Senator from Mississippi who became President of
the Confederate States of America

• 2,1

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Dred Scott Case
What Supreme Court decision ruled that the
Constitution protected slavery which meant that
restricting slavery was unconstitutional.

• 2,2

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sectionalism
The idea that a person shows loyalty to a part or
region of the country.

• 2,3

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Confederate States of America
Southern seceding states that formed their own
country and called it this.

• 2,4

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Stephen Douglas
He ran against beat Abraham Lincoln in the
1858 Illinois congressional (senate) election.

• 3,1

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Fugitive Slave Act
Law that required all citizens to help catch
runaway slaves and made it illegal to help
runaway slaves.

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states rights
The concept that the South justified their
secession with stating they could leave the Union
when they felt the govt. didnt treat them well

• 3,3

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border states
Maryland, Delaware, Kentucky, and Missouri were
slave states that stayed with the Union.

• 3,4

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John Breckinridge
He ran as a Southern Democrat in the 1860
presidential election and lost.

• 4,1

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Wilmot Proviso
Plan that stated that slavery should not be
allowed in any lands acquired from Mexico.

• 4,2

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Republican Party
What did Antislavery Democrats, Whigs, and
Free- soilers join together to form?

• 4,3

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Stephen Douglas
Who won the senate election after the
Lincoln-Douglas debates?

• 4,4

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James Buchanan
He won the 1856 presidential election but did
nothing to stop the nation from further
dividing over slavery.

• 5,1

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Compromise of 1850
The Fugitive Slave Act was the 5th part of what
law?

• 5,2

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popular sovereignty
Stephen A. Douglass idea of letting the people
of a state decide through voting if they would
have slavery or not.

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Fort Sumter
Place where the first shots of the Civil War were
fired.

• 5,4