Sectionalism and Civil War Scavenger Hunt

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Which event involves Missouri being admitted as a slave state, with a compromise proposed by Senator Henry Clay that adds Maine as a free state and sets a line banning slavery in the Louisiana Purchase territory north of the line, except for Missouri?

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Missouri Compromise

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The Mexican Cession raised question of slavery expanding to the west. Compromise allows California to enter as a free state and allows popular sovereignty to decide if territories are slave or free. The compromise also bans the slave trade in Washington DC and creates the Fugitive Slave Act. Which event is this?

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Compromise of 1850

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Which event is associated with the creation of two new territories, Kansas and Nebraska, that used popular sovereignty to decide on slavery, leading to "Bleeding Kansas"?

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Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854

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A slave sues to get his freedom after his owner takes him into a free territory. Supreme Court decides that African-Americans are not citizens and slaves are property, not people. The Constitution protects rights to property, therefore Congress can't limit where slavery can exist. It declares the Missouri Compromise unconstitutional. Which event is this?

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Dred Scott Decision

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Four different candidates run for President in an election that divides the country. Abraham Lincoln wins without any southern votes. His election causes South Carolina and 6 other states to secede and form the Confederate States of America. Which event is this?

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Election of 1860

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Which event is described in Lincoln's speech where he states his only goal is to preserve the Union and keep the country together without war, promising not to end slavery where it already exists?

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Lincoln's 1st Inaugural Address

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Confederate forces fire on the Union fort located in the harbor at Charleston, South Carolina on April 12, 1861 and force it to surrender, marking the beginning of the Civil War. Which event is this?

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Attack on Fort Sumter

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After the Union victory at the Battle of Antietam, President Abraham Lincoln frees all slaves in the rebelling states and allows African-Americans to join the Union Army. More than 180,000 volunteer and the focus of the war changes to ending slavery. Which event is this?

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Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation

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Confederate General Robert E. Lee decides to invade the North for a 2nd time in 1863. His army is defeated by the Union Army during a 3-day battle in Pennsylvania that marks a turning point in the war. After losing this battle, the Confederacy is forced to stay on defense for the rest of the Civil War. Which event is this?

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Battle of Gettysburg

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The Union army under General Ulysses S. Grant captures the last Confederate city on the Mississippi River in 1863. This victory gives the Union full control of the Mississippi River and divides the Confederacy in half, cutting off its supplies. Which event is this?

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Siege of Vicksburg