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_____________ is the process of people deciding on an issue themselves.

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Popular sovereignty

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What resulted in the growth of the abolitionist movement in the North?

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Uncle Tom's Cabin

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Fighting breaks out between pro-slavery and anti-slavery groups.

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Kansas-Nebraska Act

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Which court case involved an enslaved person?

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Dred Scott v. Sandford

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California would enter as a free state and runaway slaves could be recaptured under the...

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Compromise of 1850

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Republican candidate Abraham Lincoln wins the Presidential election of 1860, resulting in...

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South Carolina seceding

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In what way did the Compromise of 1850 appease the South?

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It included a law requiring the return of escaped slaves

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What did the Fugitive Slave Law do?

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Made it easier for slaveholders to find and reclaim runaway slaves

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What is popular sovereignty?

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Where sovereignty is left to the people to decide

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Who wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin?

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Harriet Beecher Stowe