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reasons slavery was a hindrance to the South

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  1. discouraged immigrants and skilled tradesman from seeking employment in South (later hinders the South in Civil War because there were no factories)
  2. caused more distinct social classes to develop than in any other part of the country
  3. slaves were costly, creating economic problems in South
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the independent nation established for the freed black-American slaves

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Liberia, Africa

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fiery young New Englander who demanded the immediate and unconditional freeing of all slaves; also influenced abolitionists

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William Lloyd Garrison

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Hoe did the abolition movement change in the North during the 1830s?

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took a radical turn

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the name of Garrison’s personal newspaper in which he spoke out against emancipation

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The Liberator

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the largest slave uprising in the history of the South in which a black slave preacher stirred up a slave rebellion in which about 60 white people mostly women and children were mercilessly killed

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Nat Turner Revolt

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the political party organized by the abolitionists

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Liberty Party

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a network of escape routes and hiding places by which fugitive slaves could escape to the Northern states or to Canada

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underground railroads

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the best-known leader of the underground railroad who was an escaped slave from Maryland

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Harriet Tubman

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Congressman Wilmot’s proposal which stipulated that in the land gained from Mexico “neither slavery nor involuntary servitude shall ever exist in any part of said territory”

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Wilmot Proviso

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reported that he voted on the Wilmot Proviso 42 times during his term in the House of Representatives from 1847 to 1849

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Abraham Lincoln

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name for the plan in which the people who moved into a territory would decide for themselves, by popular vote, whether slavery would be permitted there or not

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popular sovereignty or squatter sovereignty

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first proposed popular (or squatter) sovereignty

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Senator Lewis Cass

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the Whig Presidential candidate for the election of 1848

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General Zachary Taylor

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the third important party which entered the Presidential race in 1848

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Free-Soil Party

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Democratic candidate for the election of 1848

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Lewis Cass

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the Free-Soilers nominated this man for their Presidential candidate for the election of 1848

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Martin van Buren

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won the election of 1848

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Zachary Taylor

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leaders of the old generation now nearing the end of their long political careers

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Clay
Calhoun
Webster

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the most skillful defender of states’ rights at the time

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calhoun

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promoter of free soil and the greatest orator of his day

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Daniel Webster

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the leaders of promise of the younger generation

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William Seward
Jefferson Davis
Salmon Chase
Stephen Douglas

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the important provisions od Clay’s resolution included:

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  1. California be admitted as a free state
  2. Rest of the Mexican Cession be organized into New Mexico and Utah and that slavery be settled by popular sovereignty
  3. boundary be fixed between Texas and New Mexico
  4. Slave trade, not slavery, be prohibited in DC
  5. New fugitive slave law be passed
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Webster’s last great speech he gave in the Senate in which he urged the States to give their full support to the compromise because he would prefer to keep the Union together than follow his own antislavery views

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Seventh of March Speech

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one of the longest congressional debates in American history

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debate about the Compromise of 1850

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succeeded President Taylor after his death in 1850

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Millard Fillmore

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Fillmore’s views on the Compromise of 1850

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he fully supported the compromise

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settled the slavery issue, enabling cities to grow rapidly and the industry to expand

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Compromise of 1850

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Democratic candidate for the election of 1852

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Franklin Pierce

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Whigs candidate for election of 1852

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Winfield Scott

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won the election of 1852

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Democratic Franklin Pierce

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main interest during the Pierce administration

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Cuba annexing to the US

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33
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where American diplomats met with the Spanish minister to discuss the sell of Cuba

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Ostend, Belgium

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declared that if Spain refused to sell Cuba, the US would be justified in wresting the island from Spain

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Ostend Manifesto

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introduced a bill into the Senate to organize the vast land stretching west and north from Missouri and Iowa as the Nebraska Territory

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Stephen A Douglas

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Douglas’s proposal which called for the land in question to be divided into two territories– Nebraska in the North and Kansas to the South

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Kansas-Nebraska Bill

37
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when was the Liberator first published?

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August 1, 1801

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first political party to be established on abolition

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Liberty

39
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got rid of the 36`30 line that was established in the Missouri Compromise of 1820

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Kansas-Nebraska Bill

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headquarters of the antislavery settlers

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Lawrence

41
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founded by proslavery people mostly from Missouri

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Lecompton

42
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the election in Kansas was mainly

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proslavery

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the anitslavers response to the proslavers group’s overtake in Kansas election

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go to Topeka and began own government and have own election

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Free-Soiler who retaliated against violent activity by attacking proslavery settlement in Pottawatomie Creek, killing 5 men

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John Brown

45
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name for Kansas because of the reign of terror

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Bleeding Kansas

46
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the formation of the Republican party came about largely as a result of

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dissatisfaction over the Kansas-Nebraska Bill

47
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year that a coalition of Whigs, Free-soilers, and Dems met and recommended the formation of new party on the platform of opposing the extension of slavery

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1854

48
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where the coalition met in 1854?

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Ripon, Wisconsin

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the name of the new political party that was established by the coalition in 1854

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Republican

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year the name Republican was formerly established in a state convention in Michigan

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1854

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first Republican candidate

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John C Fremont

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Dems nominee for the election of 1856

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James Buchanan

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won the election of 1856– Buchanan or Fremont?

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Buchanan

54
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joined the ranks of the Republican party in 1856

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Abe Lincoln

55
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slave which was taken by owner into free state; slave owner died; slave wanted freedom; sued to get freedom

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Dred Scott

56
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final ruling of the Dred Scott case

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Scott was still a slave

57
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the Chief Justice of the Scott case

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Roger Taney

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Under Taney, the Court reasoned that under Constitution concerning the Scott case:

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  1. slave was not the citizen and could not sue in courts
  2. a slave was the property of his owner ad that Congress had no authority to deprive citizen of his property
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the most momentous decision of the Court in the Dred Scott case

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since Constitution guarantees protection of private property the Missouri Compromise of 1820 had been unconstitutional

60
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two famous people that debated for the Senate position for Illinois

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Lincoln
Douglas

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nicknames for Lincoln and Douglas

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Douglas– Little Giant
Lincoln– Honest Abe

62
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won Douglas enough support from the state of Illinois that Douglas was reelected to the US Senate

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Freeport Doctrine

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brought Lincoln to national prominence and helped to secure him a nomination as the Republican Presidential candidate in 1860

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Lincoln-Douglas Debates

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led a gang of 18 men to a town where they seized the federal arsenal and took federal prominent citizens captive

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John Brown

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the town raided by Brown and his men

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Harper’s Ferry, Virginia

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commander of Marines that were sent from Washington to capture John Brown

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Colonel Robert E Lee

67
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one of the most articulate preachers of his day that poured of fiery messages against slavery

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Henry Ward Beecher

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most notable of the essayists and poets the bombarded the reading public with literature that aroused sympathy for the slaves

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John Greenleaf Whittier

69
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wrote a novel that portrayed the dreadful abuses of slave life;

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Harriet Beecher Stowe

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name of Stowe’s novel

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Uncle Tom’s Cabin

71
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Southern author which wrote the Impending Crisis of the South, in which he attempted to show that slavery was destroying the South

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Hinton Rowan Helper

72
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split the Democratic party at National Convention in 1860

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slavery issue

73
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the Northern Dems nominee for election of 1860

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Douglas

74
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Southern Dem nominee for election of 1860

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Breckinridge

75
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Republican nominee for the election of 1860

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Abe Lincoln

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Republican nominee for VP for election of 1860

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Hamlin

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the new minor political party that was organized in the spring of 1860

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Constitutional Union Party

78
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Constitutional Union Party’s nominee for the election of 1860

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John Bell

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won the election of 1860– Douglas, Breckenridge, Bell, Lincoln?

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Lincoln

80
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the election of 1860 was monumental for the Republicans because

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the Republicans won their first Presidential election

81
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first state to secede from the Union

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South Carolina

82
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person in Georgia who tried to convince his fellow citizens to wait for a definitely hostile act by the federal government before seceding

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Alexander Stephens

83
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Jefferson Davis was _____________ to see Mississippi secede the Union

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hesitant

84
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Sam Houston in Texas ________ the cause of the Union

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defended

85
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chosen to be the Confederate President

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Jefferson Davis

86
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President Buchanan took _____ action to prevent the Southern states from seceding or to ward off a crisis

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little

87
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senator that proposed a compromise , the main provision of which called for a Constitutional amendment recognizing slavery as existing in all territories south of the 36 30 line

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John J. Crittenden

88
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Lincoln was __________ to the South in his inaugural address; he pleaded for ___________________

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kind

national unity

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