Causes of the Civil War

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What is an abolitionist?

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Someone who wants to abolish or end slavery.

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Harriet Beecher Stowe wrote a book to show the cruelties of slavery called

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Uncle Tom's Cabin

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Led a raid at Harper's Ferry, VA in an attempt to rob the armory and steal weapons to incite a slave revolt

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John Brown

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Why was Maine admitted as a free state when Missouri entered as a slave state?

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It made an equal number of slave and free states to protect the balance in Congress

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What led to events known as "Bleeding Kansas" from 1854-1861?

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Pro and Anti slavery supporters disagreed over the vote for slavery, leading to violence

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Who became the president in the election of 1860? Options: Ulysses S. Grant, Abraham Lincoln, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison

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Abraham Lincoln

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Secede

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separate or leave

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This was one of the main causes that led to the Civil War. The North did not want this and the South did. The  South depended on this for their economy and to make a profit. 

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Slavery

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This voided the Missouri Compromise and removed the 36* 30' line.

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Kansas Nebraska Act

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Popular Sovereignty was the idea that

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the people would vote whether or not their state would have slavery.