Flashcard Review - Mod 17.3 - 17.4

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This political party was made up of people opposed to the spread of slavery west and formed in response to the Kansas-Nebraska Act.

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Republican Party

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The city where Dred Scott case started before later reaching the Supreme Court.

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St. Louis

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The reason Dred Scott believed he should no longer be a slave.

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He lived in free territories for many years. "Once Free, Always Free Laws"

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This Illinois lawyer became a leading member of the Republican party in response to the Dred Scott decision.

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Abraham Lincoln

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A significant effect of the Lincoln-Douglas debates.

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Abraham Lincoln became a national figure in the Republican Party.

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The issue that the Republican Party formed over in 1854.

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opposing the spread of slavery west

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He was a well-known abolitionist who was willing to use violence to end slavery, was executed for his actions, but regarded as a hero by many of the North.

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John Brown

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The goal of the raid on Harpers Ferry, VA

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To seize weapons and arm local slaves.

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Lincoln's position on the slavery issue in the 1850s

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He opposed the spread of slavery, but promised not to abolish it in the South.

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The outcome of Abraham Lincoln's win in the presidential election of 1860

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Three other candidates split the slave-state vote and failed to win more than one free state.