Causes of the Civil War

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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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Who led a raid at Harper's Ferry, VA to rob the armory and steal weapons to fight against slavery? Options: Abraham Lincoln, Nat Turner, John Brown, Harriet Tubman

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John Brown

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The Fugitive Slave Act was added to this compromise to please Southern states: Compromise of 1850, Georgia Platform, Missouri Compromise, Kansas-Nebraska Act

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Compromise of 1850

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Popular Sovereignty

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The right of the states to vote on laws

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Which law allowed popular sovereignty in several U.S. territories?

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Kansas-Nebraska Act

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Outcome of the Dred Scott case?

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The U.S. Supreme Court decided against Scott.

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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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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:

• end fighting between Midwestern farmers and Native American Indians
• increase the number of people who voted in presidential elections
• encourage manufacturing in the west
• settle disputes over the spread of slavery to the western territories

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settle disputes over the spread of slavery to the western territories