Causes of the Civil War

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The First Fugitive Slave Act

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made it illegal to protect escaped slaves

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This was the senator who was beaten on the Senate floor because he attacked the institution of slavery.

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Charles Sumner

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This state had two governments, one pro-slavery and the other anti-slavery which led to this conflict.

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Bleeding Kansas

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This person led a slave uprising at Harper's Ferry, VA

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John Brown

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What was the significance of Dred Scott v. Sandford?

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Slaves were ruled property and not people

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What ideas were included in Uncle Tom's Cabin? Evils of the Fugitive Slave Act, Slavery was dehumanizing, Notions of Christian values within the abolitionist movement, All of these answers are correct

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All of these answers are correct

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What was the goal of the "free-soilers" or the Free Soil Party?

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Oppose the expansion of slavery in the western territories

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This was the "final straw" that caused the Southern states to secede: Missouri Compromise, Compromise of 1850, Kansas-Nebraska Act, Election of 1860

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Election of 1860

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What was the purpose of the Compromise of 1850? Options: To resolve disputes between free and slave states, To extend the Missouri Compromise line to the Pacific Ocean, To ban slavery in the territories acquired from Mexico, To abolish slavery in all states

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To resolve disputes between free and slave states

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What allowed California to enter the Union as a free state and enacted stricter fugitive slave laws? Options: Reconstruction Act, Homestead Act, Compromise of 1850, Kansas-Nebraska Act

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Compromise of 1850