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Abraham Lincoln won the election of 1860. What office did he win?

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President

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Who were the 4 men who run for President in 1860? John C. Breckinridge /John Bell / -Stephen A. Douglas / George Washington, John C. Breckinridge /John Bell / -Stephen A. Douglas / John Adams, John C. Breckinridge /John Bell / Saint Nicholas / Abraham Lincoln, John C. Breckinridge /John Bell / -Stephen A. Douglas / Abraham Lincoln

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John C. Breckinridge, John Bell, -Stephen A. Douglas, Abraham Lincoln

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A slave who sued for his freedom and sued all the way to the Supreme court of the United States

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Dred Scot

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A legal theory that a state has the right to invalidate any federal law which that state has deemed unconstitutional

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nullification

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When states feel that they know what is best for their citizens or more so than the federal government

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states rights

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A law stating that officials and citizens of free states had to cooperate with returning slaves, and slaves who escaped to the north had to be returned.

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Fugitive Slave Act

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What did many Southern states begin to do as a result of the Election of 1860?

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Voted to secede

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The economy of the Southern states depended on slave labor because...

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it was agricultural based and needed slaves to pick and process crops

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The Compromise of 1850 was created to settle what issue?

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Slavery in new states such as California

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What was issued that would free the slaves in the rebellious southern states?

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Emancipation Proclamation