(DIFF) Pro.,Less.5: Nation Breaks Apart

An agreement allowing California to enter the Union as a free state but gave other territories in the Southwest the CHOICE to allow slavery or not allow slavery.

• Compromise of 1850
• Kansas-Nebraska Act

A figure of speech known as "_______" was for a series of attacks and killings of Americans against Americans that shocked the nation.

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______ is the belief that the people have supreme power over government and government is to do what the people want them to do.

• Popular Sovereignty
• Manifest Destiny

An act that permitted voters of Kansas and Nebraska Territories to decide whether to allow or not allow slavery, using concept of Popular Sovereignty

• Kansas-Nebraska Act
• Fugitive Slave Act

Name two of the three points of the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 that so severely angered northern citizens.

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An act passed by congress to appease southern states unhappy w/California entering the union as a free state coupled with giving people in western territories power to decide if they want to allow slavery or not in their state.

• Fugitive Slave Act of 1850
• Compromise of 1850
• Fugitive Slave Act of 1787

Why were southerners unhappy with the election of Abraham Lincoln?

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What was Abraham Lincoln's #1 goal as president?

• Make the south pay a heavy price for slavery
• Preserve the union at all costs
• Preserve southern culture & tradition at all costs

To formally withdrawal from membership of a union, alliance, or organization,

• confederate
• secede

A radical abolitionist who attempted to start a slave rebellion down South and was responsible for deaths of 16 people. He was seen as a hero up North but as the devil down South.

• Abraham Lincoln
• John Brown
• Dred Scott