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Who is Dred Scott
Slave who sued for his freedom after he was taken above the 36X30 line
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When is 1820
The Missouri Compromise took place in.
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What is Fugitive slave act
Required Northerners to return escaped slaves to owners
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Who is Stephen Douglas
Ran against Lincoln for senator-ship of Illinois and won
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What is Peculiar Insitution
Another name for slavery
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Who is Harriet Beacher Stowe
Published Uncle Tom's Cabin
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What is 1850
The Compromise of ______ added California as a free state.
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What is 36x30
the line at which slave states were seperated
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What is Douglas and Breckinridge
These two men in the election of 1860 represented the Democratic party
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What is respect and integrity
what did Lincoln win in his debates with Douglas
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Who is Harriet Tubman
Maryland born fugitive slave who helped with the Underground Railroad
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When is 1850
The Kansas - Nebraska act took place at this time
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What is South Carolina
This was the first state to secede in 1860
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What is republican party
Lincoln joined this party after the Whigs died off
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What is 10
This is the amount of states to secede to the Confederacy
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Who is Robert E. Lee
General Who stopped John Brown at Harper Ferry
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when is 1860
This was year Lincoln, Douglas, Bell, and Breckenridge fought for presidency.
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What is the Underground Railroad
The secret passage led by conductors to help free slaves
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What is Constitutional Union
Bell stood for this party in the election of 1860
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What is Virginia Kentucky Tennessee Maryland
2 border states
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Who Is Roger B. Taney
Chief Justice of the Dred Scott Case
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when is 1854
Congress passed popular soverignty
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What is personal liberty act
nullified the fugitive slave act
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What is election of 1860
this election was a harbinger of the civil war
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What is Mississippi Florida Alabama Georgia Louisiana Texas
3 states that seceded in 1861
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