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An Act permitting the territories of Kansas and Nebraska to use popular sovereignty to vote on the issue of slavery.

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Kansas-Nebraska Act

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Events and clashes, often violent, between pro-slavery and anti-slavery inhabitants of the Kansas territory.

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Bleeding Kansas

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An Act permitting Missouri to join the Union as a slave state, and Maine to join the Union as a free state.

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Missouri Compromise

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Supreme Court case that determined slavery was legal in all territories and that enslaved people are not citizens.

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Dred Scott Decision

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When people are practicing popular sovereignty, what does this mean?

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People directly vote on the issue.

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Which of the following is NOT an advantage the North had over the South? Higher population, More Military Experience, More Railroads, More factories

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More Military Experience

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Which of the following events was the direct cause of South Carolina seceding from the Union? Dred Scott Decision, Lincoln-Douglas Debates over Slavery, Bleeding Kansas, The election of Abraham Lincoln

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The election of Abraham Lincoln

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What impact did Uncle Tom's Cabin have on people living in the Northern States?

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Turned Northerners against slavery

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Which of the following battles turned the tide of the war in favor of the North? Fort Sumter, First Battle of Bull Run, Gettysburg, Sherman's March to the Sea

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Gettysburg

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What was the purpose of the Gettysburg Address?

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dedicate a cemetery, honor those who died there