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Events leading to civil war

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1
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When and Where was Nat Turners Revolt?

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1831, Virginia- South Hampton

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2
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What happened during Nat Turners Revolt?

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Led 70 slaved to kill 55 white’s

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What were the results to Nat Turner’s Revolt? Dead or Alive

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Captured and Hung; 17 including Turner

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4
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What did the Missouri Compromise of 1820 create?

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A division of free/slave states; 36 30’ line

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5
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What was the main argument between the North and South?

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What states were slave and weren’t.

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6
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How did the North feel?

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Slave’s are unfair

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How did the South feel?

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Slave’s are fair

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Who introduced the Compromise of 1850?

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Kentucky Senator, Henry Clay.

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9
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What did North get from the Compromise of 1850? (list 3)

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  1. California Free State
  2. Buying/selling slaves in Washington, DC, Declared Illegal
  3. Texas lost boundary Dispute with New Mexico
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What did South get from the Compromise of 1850? (list 3)

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  1. No federal Slave restrictions in Utah or New Mexico
  2. Owning slaves in D.C was legal
  3. More enforced Fugitive Slave Law
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What was the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850?

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Easier to track slaves down

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What was the North reaction to the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850?

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Mad, Sad

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What was the South reaction to the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850?

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Happy, Excited

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How did white southerners justify their treatment of slaves?

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Slaves born inferior, slaves=property

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What was the southerns justify their treatment of slaves?

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slavery

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16
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When was the original law created?

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1793

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17
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How did the Northerners react to the original law?

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mad

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18
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What was Uncle Tom’s Cabin?

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Best Selling 19th century Book, made in1852

19
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Who wrote Uncle Tom’s Cabin?

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Harriet Beacher Stowe

20
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Why was Uncle Tom’s Cabin a significant anti-slavery tool?

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Showed people how terrible slavery actually is

21
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Who won the Election of 1852?

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Franklin Pierce (Democrat)

22
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Who introduced the Kansas-Nebraska Act?

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Stephen Douglas

23
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How did the Kansas-Nebraska Act benefit the North?

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Railroad

24
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How did the Kansas-Nebraska Act benefit the South?

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Popular Sovereignty

25
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What is popular Sovereignty?

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Majority Vote

26
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Bleeding Kansas- The fighting broke out as a direct result of what?

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Direct consequences of Nebraska,Kansas Act

27
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Who made up the members of the Republican party in 1854

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Whig Party, Free Soil, Democratic Party

28
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Who won the election of 1856

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Democrat James Buchance

29
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What was the Lecompton Constitution of 1857?

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Pro-Slavery Constitution; made by Missouri to govern Kansas

30
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What was the main theme of the Lincon Douglas debates?

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Slavery

31
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What was the Freeport Doctrine

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exclude territories without slavery

32
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Who was John Brown and What did he do?

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Stole guns and gave them to slaves. Wrote note. “end slavery-blood.”

33
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What was the purpose of John Brown’s raid?

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Start a slave revolt

34
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How did the south feel about John Brown’s raid?

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scared

35
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Who was the Republican Nominee for president for the 1860 election?

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Abraham Lincon- no expansion of slavery, protect tariff, internal improvements

36
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Who was the Northern Democrat Nominee?

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StephenDouglas- enforce fugitive slave law; wanted territories to vote for slavery

37
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Who was the Southern Democrat Nominee?

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John Breckirridge- didn’t care about slavery

38
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What was the third party involved in the election and who was their Nominee?

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John Breckrridge- didn’t have opinion of slavery

39
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What was the result of the election of 1860?

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Abraham Lincon

40
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How did the south feel about the results of the election of 1860?

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Mad, sad

41
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How did the north feel about the results of the election of 1860?

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Happy, excited

42
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What did the southerners feel before the Civil War

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Mad

43
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Which Southern state seceded from the union first? Lineup?

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  1. South Carolina
  2. Florida
  3. Georgia
  4. Alabama
  5. Missouri
  6. Louisiana
  7. Texas

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