Road to Disunion Flashcard

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During this crisis the state of South Carolina claimed that it had to the power to declare federal laws did not apply to the state, and, if the federal government tried to enforce the law, South Carolina would leave the United States.

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Nullification Crisis

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Northerners were upset because this law repealed the Missouri Compromise. Options: Fugitive Slave Act, Gag Rule, Kansas-Nebraska Act, Tariff of Abominations

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Kansas-Nebraska Act

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This slave revolt in Virginia set back efforts to emancipate enslaved people in that state.

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Nat Turner's Rebellion

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the American Anti-Slavery Association attempted to flood the South with abolitionist literature in this campaign

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Great Postal Campaign

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An attempt made in Congress to require that slavery would be barred from any territory the U.S. received through the war with Mexico

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Wilmot Proviso

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This attempted to settle issues regarding slavery when California tried to enter the United States as a Free State

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Compromise of 1850

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During the 1860 election, which candidate ran as a Republican? Options: John Bell, John Breckinridge, Stephen Douglas, Abraham Lincoln

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Abraham Lincoln

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Through this Compromise in 1820 slavery was barred in U.S. territories north of 36 degrees N. Latitude

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Missouri Compromise

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This law brought slavery to the full attention of the Northern people because it had provisions which required people to help recapture freedom seekers (fugitive slaves)

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Fugitive Slave Act

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When a federal marshall led a raid to capture 4 freedom seekers (fugitive slaves) in this town, it led to a riot which successfully resisted the efforts to return people to slavery. What is the name of the town? Options: Baltimore, Christiana, New York, Philadelphia

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Christiana