Events Leading to the Civil War

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To which state did people who rushed across the border to swing the vote on slavery in 1855?

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Kansas

Front

Abraham Lincoln gained what percentage of the popular vote in the election of 1860?

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40%

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What vocabulary word explains how the slavery issue would be decided in the Kansas and Nebraska territories?

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popular sovereignty

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The Compromise of 1850 included many parts. Which was NOT one of them? a strong Fugitive Slave Act, outlaw slave trade in Washington DC, admit California as a free state, define enslaved people as property and not citizens

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define enslaved people as property and not citizens

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The book that was written by Harriet Beecher Stowe which focused on the horrors of slavery is called.....

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Uncle Tom's Cabin

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Where were the first shots of the Civil War fired?

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Fort Sumter

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When the Civil War began, what was Abraham Lincoln's main goal?

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to preserve the Union

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What did Congress decide would determine whether a territory was open to slavery or not in the Missouri Compromise of 1820?

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a dividing line along Missouri's southern border

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Which abolitionist was a former enslaved person himself and became a powerful speaker for the anti-Slavery Society?

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Frederick Douglas

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Which political party formed in 1854 with the goal of stopping the spread of slavery into the western territories?

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Republican Party