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How did the Wilmot proviso heighten tensions in the US over the issue of slavery?

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Is stated that no slavery should exist in any land acquired through the war with Mexico

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What aspect of the compromise of 1850 was attractive to the south

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It proposed a more effective fugitive slave law

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What was one reason that the fugitive slave law was so hotly contested in the north?

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If forbid, arrested fugitive slaves from receiving a trial by jury

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What was one reason that Stephan A Douglas supported the Kansas, Nebraska act

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He would benefit financially from it

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What caused the territory of Kansas to be called bleeding Kansas during the mid-1850s

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The policy of popular sovereignty 

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(+ or o) after making compassionate speech against slavery. Massachusetts senator Charles Sumner was brutally beaten with a cane by southern Congressman and Stephan a Douglas.

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O, Brooke’s beat him up

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(+ or o) An escaped slave named Harriet Tubman became a “conductor” on the Underground Railroad

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Uncle Tom’s cabin was a popular novel which unbashedly espouse the anti-slavery reviews of the north it was written by

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Harriet Beecher Stowe

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(+ or o) in the 1850s the south had a larger population than the north which meant that they had more congressional representatives

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O

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The formal withdraw of a state from the union is known as

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Succession

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Who is known as the little giant?

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Stephan a Douglass

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During the presidential election of 1856 the Democrat nominee was:

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James Buchanan

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During the presidential election of 1856 the Republican nominee was:

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John C Fremont 

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During the presidential election of 1856 the Know-Nothing nominee was:

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Millard Fillmore

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Which of the following was a co-founder of the Republican Party?

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Horace Greenlee

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Of the following which party was anti-immigrant and anti-Catholic?

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The know nothing party

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Which of the following is anti-slavery

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The Republican party

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(+ or 0 ) Nativism was a philosophy which showed favoritism to immigrants.from Europe.

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O

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The presidential election of 1856 was won by

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James Buchanan

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Which political party cease to exist after the election of 1852

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The whig party

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Which political party appealed to both northern moderates and southern pro slavers

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The Democrat party

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What northern senator did House, representative Preston S Brooks beat nearly to death with this cane

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Charles Sumner

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Southern Democrats wanted to admit what Caribbean is as a new slave state

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Why did James Buchanan support of the conference constitution and fury Stephan a Douglas?

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Douglas supported the idea popular sovereignty

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What was the essence of Stephan a Douglas’s Freeport doctrine
People could get around the dread Scott decision
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What was John Brown’s ultimate goal at Harpers Ferry?
To start a slave uprising
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Why did the election of 1860 cause uncertainty for the future of the union?
Lincoln won no electoral votes in the south
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(+ or o) an 1858 Abraham Lincoln won the Senate seat from Stephan a Douglas
O
29
The first state is seceded from the union was
South Carolina
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(+ or o) both Lincoln and Douglas thought that John Brown was a hero, and they marred to the abolitionist cause
O
31
Of the following who is not a candidate for president during the 1860 election
John C Fremont
32
At the opening of the Republican national convention in May 2018 60 almost everyone, believe that the parties candidate would be whom
William H Seward
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The first and last president of the confederate states of America was
Jefferson Davis
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(+ or o) in 1860 presidential election Lincoln won by landslide in the popular vote
O
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John Brown shows what location to begin his abolitionist crusade
Harpers Ferry Virginia
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(+ or o) the Lecompton Constitution was an attempt made by free soilers to make Kansas slave free
O
37
Before the Civil War, Roger B Taney was
The US Supreme Court chief justice
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(+ or o) as the 15th president of the US James Buchanan was a very weak and vacillating leader
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Why did Lincoln avoid the slavery issue at the beginning of the war?
He wanted to keep the border states in the union
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What aspects of Ulysses grants war strategy cause them to have success as a general
He was brave tough, and would except only unconditional surrender from the enemy
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What was so significant about the battle between the Mermack and the monitor?
They were the first ironclad ships to fight in battle
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Why did the north strategy to capture the confederate capital fail in 1862?
General McClellan led his troops with too much caution
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(+ or o) the battle of Bullrun signal, the actual start of the Civil War
O
44
How many states were a part of the confederate states of America?
11
45
Union general, George McClellan for once acted with a aggression and won the battle of antietem after
Discovering a copy of Lee’s plans wrapped around a bunch of cigars 
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What words best describe union General George McClellan
Vein and indecisive
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(+ or o) hot air balloons were used during the Civil War
+
48
The commander of Fort Sumner in Charleston Harbor South Carolina was
Major Robert Anderson
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(+ or o) neither northerners or southerners expected a short, glorious war
O
50
Of the following, which was not one of the four slave states that were undecided about succession in April of 1860
Tennessee
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Which of the following was not one of the advantages of the union during the Civil War?
First rate generals for the army
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(+ or o) the confederacies war strategy was to strangle the union states with a naval blockade dub the anaconda plan
O
53
The youngest combat soldier wounded during the Civil War, was how old
12
54
Fort Henry and Donaldson both strategic river stronghold, were captured by what union general
Ulysses S Grant
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What new state was admitted to the union during the Civil War?
West Virginia

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