Ch 14 Towards War

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"Free Soil, Free Speech, Free Labor, and Free Men" was the slogan for what party who wanted Western territories to be free not slave?

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Free -Soil Party

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Henry Clay's proposal to admit California as a free state and allow slavery in all other western territories which overturned the 1820 Missouri Compromise ban on slavery northern territories.

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The Compromise of 1850

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Stephen A. Douglas proposed a new law stating any territory would vote on whether or not they would enter the United States as free or slave state.

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Kansas-Nebraska Act

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Kansas had two rival governments. Pro-slavery settlers attacked anti-slavery settlers killing five people Kansas territory.

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Bleeding Kansas

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What new political party arose just before the Civil War which was made up by Antislavery Whigs and Democrats and the Free-Soilers and became known as the the party of the North?

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Republican Party

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The Democratic party right before the Civil War was associated with which region of the United States?

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South

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What was the Supreme Court ruling in the Dred Scott v. Sandford 1857 case?

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Enslaved people were property, not citizens and the U.S. could not ban slavery anywhere.

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What was the main issue of the Lincoln v Douglass debates during the Illinois Senate race of 1858?

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slavery

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What did happened at Harper's Ferry?

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John Brown tried to start a rebellion that would bring an end to slavery

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Which state was the first to secede on December 20, 1860 after Lincoln won the election of 1860 and Southerns did not believe the Republican promise not to stop slavery where it already existed?

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South Carolina