Causes of the Civil War

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Which law sparked three years of violence in the Midwest? Options: Missouri Compromise, Fugitive Slave Act, Kansas Nebraska Act, Dred Scott Case

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Kansas Nebraska Act

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What was the book written by Harriet Beecher Stowe to show the cruelties of slavery called?

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Uncle Tom's Cabin

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The Kansas-Nebraska Act led to people flooding into these territories from the north and south to vote on slavery. This led to what event?

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Bleeding Kansas

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The Missouri Compromise Line determined the status of slavery in future states. North of the line slavery was ___________ or banned, South of the line slavery was _________.

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prohibited, permitted or allowed

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The Dred Scott decision...

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satisfied southerners, angered northerners.

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What was the Supreme Court's decision in the Dred Scott case?

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That African Americans did not have the right to sue in federal court because they were not citizens

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The Missouri Compromise, the Compromise of 1850, and the Kansas-Nebraska Act were all efforts to

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settle disputes over the spread of slavery to the western territories

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Which law allowed slave holders to gain access to the north to retrieve their runaway slaves?

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Fugitive Slave Law

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The Kansas-Nebraska Act

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Introduced popular sovereignty to unorganized territories

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What was the underlying cause of the Civil War?

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Section tensions created by slavery and states rights