Road to Civil War

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As a result of the Kansas-Nebraska Act, the question of slavery is to be decided by this

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popular sovereignty

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____________ led an attack on the Harpers Ferry arsenal, which began on October 16, 1859

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John Brown

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The number of people killed in the Pottawatomie Massacre

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5

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Violence in the Kansas territory in the 1850s became known as this

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Bleeding Kansas

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The Republican Party was founded in the 1850s on the principle of ___________________________

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opposing the expansion of slavery into the West

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The first Southern state to secede from the Union following the 1860 Presidential election

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South Carolina

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Winner of the 1860 presidential election

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Abraham Lincoln

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Harriet Beecher Stowe's bestselling anti-slavery novel

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Uncle Tom's Cabin

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Massachusetts Senator who was brutally beaten on the Senate floor in 1856

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Charles Sumner

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Who was Charles Sumner's attacker?

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Preston Brooks