FLASHCARDS:Conflicts & Compromises: Pre Civil War (#1-10 Review)

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The Kansas-Nebraska Act

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Introduced popular sovereignty to unorganized territories

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The Fugitive Slave Act

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Forced all Americans to help catch escaped slaves

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What was decided in the Supreme Court case of Dred Scott v. Sanford?

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Slaves had no citizen rights and were not protected by the Constitution

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The underlying cause of the Civil War was

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Section tensions created by slavery and states rights

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Which part of the Compromise of 1850 is being addressed by the poster?

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The Fugitive Slave Act

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This law sparked three years of violence in the Midwest.

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Kansas Nebraska Act

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The Kansas-Nebraska Act led to people flooding into these territories from the north and south to vote on slavery. This led to what event?

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Bleeding Kansas

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The Missouri Compromise applied only to: the Mexican Cession, Texas, the Louisiana Purchase, the thirteen colonies

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the Louisiana Purchase

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In 1820, the Missouri Compromise did all of the following EXCEPT...

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The citizens were able to VOTE on their state being free or slave state.

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A law (which was NOT passed) to ban slavery in the land won in the Mexican-American War.

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Wilmot-Proviso