Events Leading to Civil War

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Who was the vice president of the Confederate States of America?

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Alexander Stephens

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Who was the chief justice of the Supreme Court in the Dred Scott decision?

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Roger B. Taney

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Who was the president of the Confederate States of America?

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Jefferson Davis

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Who was the Democrat elected president in 1856, would not act to prevent secession?

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James Buchanan

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Who was the author of Uncle Tom’s Cabin?

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Harriet Beecher Stowe

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Who was the runaway slave who started an abolitionist newspaper?

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Frederick Douglass

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Who was the runaway slave who helped others escape to freedom on the Underground Railroad?

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Harriet Tubman

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Who was the Republican president elected in 1860?

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Abraham Lincoln

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Who was the Illinois senator who debated Lincoln and proposed the Kansas-Nebraska Act?

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Stephen Douglas

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Who was the former slave whose case went to the Supreme Court?

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Dred Scott