Causes of the Civil War

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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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Which of the following best describes John Brown?

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radical abolitionist who used violence to try to end slavery

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What was the idea of Popular Sovereignty?

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The people would vote to decide if their state would have slavery.

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What was the key issue debated each time a new state was admitted to the Union before the Civil War?

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the expansion of slavery

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This was a book that was written by Harriet Beecher Stowe that showed the evils of slavery. Options: Harriet's Cabin, Uncle Tom's Cabin, Slavery, State's Rights

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Uncle Tom's Cabin

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Which does not belong to the Compromise of 1820? Options: Maine was a free state, Missouri was a slave state, California was a slave state, No slavery above 36 30 line.

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California was a slave state

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What did the Wilmot Proviso state?

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Slavery should not expand into the territory acquired after the Mexican American War

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Manifest Destiny was the belief that...

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It was the United States' God given right to expand to the Pacific Ocean.

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Abolitionist who raided the Harper's Ferry arsenal in 1859 to arm slaves to revolt. Options: Harriet Tubman, Harriet Beecher Stowe, John Brown, William Lloyd Garrison

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John Brown

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The Compromise of 1850 included a new and tougher...

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Fugitive Slave Act.