Flashcards on Historical Events Leading to the Civil War

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The ________________________, allowed California to enter the Union as a free state, while territories in Mexican cession lands would be allowed to decide if they would enter the Union as a free or slave state.

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Compromise of 1850

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Purpose of the raid on Harpers Ferry, VA.

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To give slaves weapons to revolt against their masters

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After Kansas erupted into a state of civil war, what became that state's nickname?

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Bleeding Kansas

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Decisions made by Chief Justice, Roger B. Taney, in the Dred Scott case

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- African Americans were not considered citizens

-Slaves were property and the Fifth Amendment protected citizens from having their property taken away without due process.

-The federal government could not prevent people from taking slaves into federal territory.

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Abolitionist writer who wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin

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C) Harriet Beecher Stowe

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Causes of the Kansas-Nebraska Act

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Popular Sovereignty that allows states to vote if they were free or slave states.

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Immediate effect of Lincoln winning the election of 1860

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11 southern states seceded to create the Confederate States