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- THE PRE-CIVIL WAR:What Senator thought he was going to be the Republican presidential candidate?
- JOHN BROWN'S RAID ON HARPER'S FERRY VA:On the next day, what general and his soldiers captured John Brown? What happened to him?
- THE PRE-CIVIL WAR:Under the Fugitive Slave act, federal courts/ commissions got _____ if they released a suspected fugitive salve but _____ if they sent them back to slavery.
- JOHN BROWN'S RAID ON HARPER'S FERRY VA:_____________, a northerner ___________, participated in the Kansas violence in 1856 and returned to the north as a wanted criminal.
- THE PRE-CIVIL WAR:In Harriet Beecher Stowe's book, ___________________, a plantation owner named ________________ had a salve named _________________ whipped to death.
- THE PRE-CIVIL WAR:What was the murder of 5 pro-slavery men led by Joh Brown known as?
- JOHN BROWN'S RAID ON HARPER'S FERRY VA:What was the word used by Northerners to describe John Brown?
- POLITICAL DIVISIONS:Abraham and Stephan held a series of debates in which they talked about ____________. Why was it fortunate that Abraham Lincoln lost?
- THE PRE-CIVIL WAR:Abraham Lincoln took less than _______ of the popular votes but through an overwhelming majority of electoral votes, he became the 16th president. Around the same time _______________ became president of the Confederacy.
- COMPROMISE OF 1850:T or F: SLAVERY was abolished in the District of Columbia.
- KANSAS-NEBRASKA ACT- 1854:Both sides were heavily armed and violence broke out. What did Pro-slavery forces do as a violent act? What about anti-slavery?
- KANSAS-NEBRASKA ACT- 1854:As a result of the violence in Kansas, _______________ from SC beats _______________ from Mass. unconscious
- COMPROMISE OF 1850:What does the North try to work on/ increase?
- POLITICAL DIVISIONS:Which party remains the leading voice FOR slavery?
- KANSAS-NEBRASKA ACT- 1854:As a result of the election Kansas became a __________ state and anti-slavery people formed their own ____________.
- JOHN BROWN'S RAID ON HARPER'S FERRY VA:John Brown believed that in order to free the slaves talk would never work and that they needed __________.
- DRED SCOTT DECISION- 1857:Scott's case reached the ___________________ and Chief Justice _____________________ (from a slave holding family) ruled in a ____-____ decision.
- POLITICAL DIVISIONS:T or F: The Republican Party forms mainly to ABOLISH slavery.
- COMPROMISE OF 1850:The ________________________ required all citizens to help return escaped enslaved persons.
- SLAVERY:Because of the awful conditions that slaves experienced, who wrote about it? What was the book called?