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Missouri Compromise
In 1857: Supreme Courts Dred Scott decision permitted slavery in all WEstern territories, invalidating the ________ of 1820, Sandford, 60 U.S. 393 (1856) In a decision that later was nullified by the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Amendments, the Supreme Court held that former slaves did not have standing in federal courts because they lacked U.S. citizenship, even after they were freed.
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Hinton R Helper
________, a non- aristocrat from North Carolina, wrote The Impending Crisis of the South in 1857.
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James Buchanan
________, a Democrat, succeeded Pierce as the President of the United States in the election of 1856.
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Lecompton Constitution
The ________ is a pro- slavery document.
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Montgomery
The 7 seceders met at ________, Alabama in February 1861 and created a government known as the Confederate States of America.
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Abolitionist John Brown
________ developed a plan to secretly invade the South, call upon the slaves to rise, give the slaves weapons, and establish a black free state.In October 1859, he seized the federal arsenal at Harpers Ferry.
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Harriet Beecher Stowe
________, who was white, published Uncle Tom's Cabin in 1852 as an attempt to show the North the horrors of slavery.
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Constitutional Union Party
The ________ was formed by former Whigs and Know- Nothings.
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inrush of Californian
The panic of 1857 was caused by over- speculation in the West and currency inflation due to the ________ gold.
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John Brown
________: fanatical abolitionist who, in May of 1856**,** hacked to death 5 presumed pro- slavery men at Pottawatomie Creek in response to the pro- slavery events in Lawrence.
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Dread Scott
________, a slave who had lived with his master for 5 years in Illinois and the Wisconsin Territory, sued for his freedom on the basis of his long residence on free soil.
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Stephen A Douglas
________: senator who tried to break the North- South deadlock over westward expansion; proposed the Territory of Nebraska to be sliced into two.
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In 1857
Supreme Courts Dred Scott decision permitted slavery in all WEstern territories, invalidating the Missouri Compromise of 1820, Sandford, 60 U.S. 393 (1856) In a decision that later was nullified by the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Amendments, the Supreme Court held that former slaves did not have standing in federal courts because they lacked U.S. citizenship, even after they were freed
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This gave the Republicans two economic issues for the election of 1860
  protection for the unprotected and farms for the farmless
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Stephen A. Douglas
senator who tried to break the North-South deadlock over westward expansion; proposed the Territory of Nebraska to be sliced into two
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John Brown
fanatical abolitionist who, in May of 1856**,** hacked to death 5 presumed pro-slavery men at Pottawatomie Creek in response to the pro-slavery events in Lawrence