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- At what event were colonists in Boston were shot after taunting British soldiers?
- What date was the Declaration of Independence approved?
- Lincoln made a strong effort to get the South to accept the Crittenden Compromise in order to avoid a civil war.
- Seven states seceded and formed the Confederate States of American during the "lame-duck" period between Lincoln's election and his inauguration.
- The Dred Scott decision upheld the doctrine of popular sovereignty that the people of each territory should determine whether or not to permit slavery.
- The violence in Kansas was provoked by both radical abolitionists and militant proslavery forces who sought to control the territory.
- Although Republican John C. Fremont lost the presidency to Democrat James Buchanan, the election of 1856 demonstrated the growing power of the new antislavery party.
- The South was enraged by many northerners' celebration of John Brown as a martyr.
- The election of 1860 was really two campaigns, Lincoln versus Douglas in the North and Bell versus Breckinridge in the South.
- Hinton Helper's The Impending Crisis of the South stirred slaveholder's wrath by predicting that the slaves would eventually rise up in violent revolt.
- Prosouthern Kansas pioneers brought numerous slaves with them in order to guarantee that Kansas would not become a free state.
- The overwhelming support for Lincoln in the North gave him a majority of the total popular vote despite winning almost no votes in the South.
- Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin proved to be the most influential publication in arousing the northern and Euorpean publics against the evils of slavery.
- Northern Democrats walked out of the Democratic party convention in 1860 when southerners nominated Vice President John Breckenridge for president.
- In the Lincoln-Douglas debates, Lincoln's criticisms forced Douglas to back away from his support for popular sovereignty as the solution to the slavery question in the West.
- After Congressman Preston brooks nearly beat Senator Charles Sumner to death on the Senate floor, South Carolina reelected Brooks and Massachusetts reelected Sumner.
- Why did the colonists call the new laws passed after the Boston Tea Party the "Intolerable Acts"?
- Senator Stephen Douglas's support for the proslavery Leeecompton Constitution demonstrated that the Democratic party was completely beholden to its southern wing.
- The republicans overestimated the goodness of _____
- The federalists overestimated the goodness of ______