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a person who flees or tries to escape
fugitive
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This amendment proposed that Missouri be admitted as a free state
The Tallmadge Amendment
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Some Northerners did not want Missouri to enter the Union as a slave state because they wanted to keep slavery from spreading across this territory
Louisiana
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Under the Missouri Compromise
which state entered the Union as a free state?
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Under the Missouri Compromise
Missouri entered the Union as what kind of state?
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What is the name given to the imaginary line that Congress drew across the Louisiana Territory for the Missouri Compromise?
The 36o30' Line
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What was prohibited North of the line?
slavery
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What is the name given to the principle that authority to determine a law is given to the people living in that territory?
Popular Sovereignty
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The United States as one country
united under a single government
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Congress refused to consider anti-slavery petitions from abolitionists who wanted to stop slavery where?
Washington
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Who created the Missouri Compromise and the Compromise of 1850?
Henry Clay
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This stated that slavery would not be allowed in the Mexican Cession
The Wilmot Proviso
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As a result of the Compromise of 1850
this state entered the Union as a free state.
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What two territories were open to slavery as a result of the Compromise of 1850?
Utah and New Mexico
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As a result of the Compromise of 1850
what ended in our nation's capital?
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Which part of the Compromise of 1850 was the most controversial?
The Fugitive Slave Act
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Who wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin?
Harriet Beecher Stowe
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This act led to bloodshed over slavery in Kansas
The Kansas-Nebraska Act
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Who sued for his freedom?
Dred Scott
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Who was the Supreme Court Justice overseeing the Dred Scott case?
Chief Justice Roger B. Taney
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Why couldn't Dred Scott sue for his freedom?
He was not a citizen
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What did Justice Taney claim was unconstitutional?
The Missouri Compromise
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As a result of the Dred Scott Decision
Congress was unable to do this?
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The act of withdrawing from an organization or alliance
Secession
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Who was elected president in 1860?
Abraham Lincoln
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Which state seceded from the Union first?
South Carolina
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Who attacked the arsenal at Harpers Ferry?
John Brown
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What started the Civil War?
Firing on Fort Sumter