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The idea that the states should be able decide for themselves whether or not they will be a slave or a free state.

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Popular Sovereignty

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The South's economy was based on which of the following industries? Agriculture, Industrial Production, Finance/Banking, Infrastructure

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Agriculture

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This federal law made it illegal to harbor runaway slaves and forced their return to slaveholders in the South if caught.

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Fugitive Slave Act

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This compromise not only let the territories of Kansas and Nebraska be decided by popular sovereignty, it also repealed the previous border established by the Missouri Compromise of 1820.

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The Kansas-Nebraska Act

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California entered the Union as a free state while southwest territories would decide the slavery issue themselves. What is this agreement called?

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Compromise of 1850

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Who won the presidential election of 1860?

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Abraham Lincoln

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What did Dred Scott argue in the Scott v. Sandford case?

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He was free because he had lived in free states

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Which was the 1st State to secede?

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South Carolina

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What were the Northern states during the Civil War known as?

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Union

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A radical abolitionist that believed slavery must be stopped by force. He led a group of anti-slavery volunteers in Kansas.

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John Brown