Build up to the Civil War

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The Missouri Compromise, the compromise of 1850, and the Kansas-Nebraska Act were all efforts to 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

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This was a mini-Civil War fought in the Kansas territory between pro-slavery settlers and anti-slavery settlers.

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Bleeding Kansas

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"Popular Sovereignty" means

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The right of the people living in a new territory to make a decision on slavery by vote

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How did each of the acts in the box above impact the slavery issue within the United States?

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Each act attempted to reduce conflict between slave and free states.

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In 1850, when California was added as a "Free" State, what law was added to the Compromise of 1850 that allowed Southerners to recapture their runaway slaves that made it North?

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Fugitive Slave Act

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He was an abolitionist that used violence to try to end slavery. He was captured in Harper's Ferry Virginia in 1859, and hanged for treason?

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John Brown

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In 1857, this Supreme Court case ruled that slaves were the same as property and therefore invalidated the Missouri Compromise?

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Dred Scot v. Sanford

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In 1848, this bill proposed to make slavery illegal in all the territory acquired from Mexico? Options: Kansas-Nebraska Act, Missouri Compromise, Compromise of 1850, Wilmot Proviso

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Wilmot Proviso

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What best describes Dred Scott? Options: slave who sued for his freedom, slaveowner who sued for the return of a fugitive slave, Georgia politician trying to ban slavery, Supreme Court judge making a ruling on the spread of slavery

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slave who sued for his freedom

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Dred Scott's case went to...

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the United States Supreme Court.