Causes of the Civil War US

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What were the main causes of the Missouri Compromise?

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The main causes of the Missouri Compromise were the issue of slavery and the balance of power between free and slave states.

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What were the terms of the Missouri Compromise?

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The terms of the Missouri Compromise included admitting Missouri as a slave state, Maine as a free state, and establishing a line (36°30' parallel) across the Louisiana Territory, with slavery prohibited north of the line.

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What is the Underground Railroad?

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A group of people who helped enslaved individuals escape to freedom.

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Who is considered the most famous conductor of the Underground Railroad?

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Harriet Tubman

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Which of the following was NOT part of the Compromise of 1850? a new, stricter fugitive slave law, establishment of a federal slave trade, California entering the Union as a free state, popular sovereignty deciding on slavery in the non California parts of the Mexican Cession

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establishment of a federal slave trade

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What was the policy of allowing the people in a territory to decide if a new state would be slave or free?

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popular sovereignty

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Which part of the nation would be most in favor of the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850? Options: The Northern free states, The Southern slave states, California, The states in New England

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The Southern slave states

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Who wrote Uncle Tom’s Cabin?

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Harriet Beacher Stowe

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What impact did "Uncle Tom's Cabin" have on American society?

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It increased tensions between the North and South

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What was the primary issue that the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854 allowed settlers to decide through popular sovereignty?

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The right to decide whether to allow slavery