AH Unit 3 Review

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Passage of the Fugitive Slave Act had the most direct consequences for

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people involved with the Underground Railroad.

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What did the creation of the 54th Massachusetts Regiment demonstrate?

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African Americans were eager to join the Union Army, and northern abolitionists supported them.

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During Reconstruction, many Supreme Court rulings limited what?

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equal protection under the law

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Southern states restricted the execution of the Fifteenth Amendment

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Literacy tests and poll taxes

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popular sovereignty

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The voters of the territory decide issues

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Dred Scott decision

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Congress had no power to ban slavery anywhere.

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In 1860 and 1861, seven southern states seceded from the Union in protest of the

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Election of Republican Abraham Lincoln as President.

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The book Uncle Tom’s Cabin affected American society in the 1850s by

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Convincing many Northerners that slavery would ruin the nation.

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Senator Stephen Douglas proposed in the Kansas-Nebraska Act to

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Rely on popular sovereignty to decide if slavery should be legal in the territories.

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The greatest impact of John Brown’s raid on Harpers Ferry was that

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The raid deepened the division between North and South.