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The decision rendered in the Dred Scott case was applauded by: Abolitionists, Republicans, Popular-sovereignty proponents, Pro-slavery Southerners, Conservative unionists

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Pro-slavery Southerners

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In the Dred Scott case, the Supreme Court ruled all of the following EXCEPT: Only free blacks had civil rights, Dred Scott could not legally sue in a federal court, The Missouri Compromise was unconstitutional, Dred Scott was not a citizen of the United States

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Only free blacks had civil rights

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Which of the following would have been most likely to support John Brown? Southerners, Republicans, Abolitionists, Northerners

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Abolitionists

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The situation in Kansas in the mid-1850s indicated the impracticality of __________ in the territories

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Popular sovereignty

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As a result of reading Uncle Tom's Cabin, many northerners would have nothing to do with the enforcement of the Fugitive Slave Law.

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would have nothing to do with the enforcement of the Fugitive Slave Law.

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The clash and political fallout between Congressman Preston S. Brooks of South Carolina and Senator Charles Sumner of Massachusetts in 1856 revealed that

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passions over slavery were becoming dangerously inflamed in both North and South.

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In his raid on Harpers Ferry, John Brown intended to

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start a slave rebellion.

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Abraham Lincoln opposed the Crittenden Compromise because

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he had been elected on a platform that opposed the extension of slavery.

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Split the Nebraska Territory into the states of Kansas and Nebraska, where they also got to choose whether to be a free or slave states... causing conflict within the states.

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Kansas-Nebraska Act

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Which of the following best describes John Brown? radical abolitionist who used violence to try to end slavery, a peaceful abolitionists who hated violence, a pro-slavery Senator, a strong supporter of slavery who used violence to spread slavery

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radical abolitionist who used violence to try to end slavery