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Chapter 15 Flashcards

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What is the Republican Party?

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A political party formed in 1854 by opponents of slavery

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What is the meaning of popular sovereignty?

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A system in which issues are decided by the citizenry or voters

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What is the free soil party?

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A political party dedicated to stopping the expansion of slavery

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What is the know-nothing party?

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An anti-immigrant party formed in the 1850’s

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What does it mean to secede?

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To withdraw

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What are state’s rights?

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An idea that the states have certain rights that the federal government cannot overrule

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What are the confederate states of America?

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The confederation formed in 1861 by the Southern states after their secession from the union

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What is an uprising?

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A rebellion

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What does it mean to enlist?

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To join the armed forces

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What does it mean to emancipate?

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To free

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What is income tax?

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Tax on earnings

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What does it mean to ratify?

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To approve

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What is an abolition?

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The movement to stop slavery

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Did the north or the south have more industry and commerce?

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The north

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Were the farms in the north big or small?

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Small

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Were the cities growing or shrinking?

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Growing

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What connected the East and West in the North?

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Railroads

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What did the north think about slavery?

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Some thought it was immortal

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What did wage workers fear?

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Wage workers feared they would be replaced by slaves

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Did the south have more industry or agriculture?

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More agriculture

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Who dominated in the South?

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White plantation owners

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What did the South invest in?

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Land and slaves

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What was most of the population in the South?

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Poor farmers

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What made poor farmers feel superior?

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Slavery

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What justified slavery in the South? (3 reasons)

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A.) whites are better than African- Americans
B.) whites introduced slaves to Christianity
C.) the slaves would have food, clothing, and shelter

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Why was the Wilmot Proviso thought of?

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The fear of extending slavery into the newly gained land from Mexico

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What did the Wilmot Proviso say?

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To forbid slavery in the land gained from Mexico

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Did the Wilmot Proviso pass?

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No

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What political party did the Wilmot Proviso being together?

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The free soil party

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What did the free soil party want?

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To stop slavery from expanding

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How did the free soil party effect politics?

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The free soil party made slavery a key issue in politics.

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What did California make the south fear?

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Losing equality in the senate

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Did the compromise of 1850 bring peace?

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No

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Why was the compromise of 1850 created?

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To deal with California

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What did the compromise of 1850 bring for the North?

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California would enter as a free state, no Slavs trade in Washington D.C.

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What did the compromise of 1850 bring for the South?

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For the South, no slave laws would be in the land won from Mexico, will pass a strong law to help slave owners

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Was the compromise of 1850 passed?

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Yes

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What did the fugitive slave act say?

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That accused fugitives could be held without an arrest warrant and they had no right for a jury trial

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Who ruled on each case for the fugitive slave act?

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The federal commissioner

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What compromise was the fugitive slave act part of?

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The compromise of 1850

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Why did the South like the Fugitive Slave act?

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Because they thought slaves were property

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What did the North think about the fugitive slave act?

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The North did not support the act because it required them to recapture runaway slaves

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What did the Kansas-Nebraska act propose?

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To divide the territory into two parts

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What was used to decide if Kansas and Nebraska would be a slave or a free state?

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Popular sovereignty

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Did the Kansas-Nebraska act pass?

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Yes

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What was the nickname for the Kansas territory?

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“Bleeding Kansas”

46
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What happened after Missouri came and voted illegally?

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Kansas was filled with proslavery representatives

47
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Who came through Lawrence, Kansas?

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A proslavery mob

48
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What was the sack of Lawrence?

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When a proslavery mob came through Lawrence, Kansas

49
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How long did the civil war break out in Kansas?

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For three years

50
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Who created the Republican Party?

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Anti-slavery Northerners after Preston Brooks attacked Senator Senator Charles Sumner with his can until he was unconscious, because Summer insulted his cousin.

51
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Who wrote Uncle Toms’s Cabin?

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Harriet Beecher Stowe

52
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What did Uncle Tom’s Cabin say about slavery?

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It told people in the North how bad slavery was after the Fugitive Slave Act

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What act caused a political crisis for the Whig Party?

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The Kansas-Nebraska Act

54
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Why was the Whig party formed?

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To apples Andrew Jackson

55
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What had the Kansas-Nebraska act done to the Whig Party?

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It had torn the party into two factions, North against the act, South for it

56
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Who won Maryland in the election of 1856?

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Fillmore

57
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Who were the two people running for President in the North for the election of 1856?

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Buchmann vs. Fremont

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Who was running for President in the South for the election of 1856?

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Buchmann vs. Fillmore

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Who won the election of 1856 in the North?

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Buchmann won against Fremont

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How many states did Fremont win in the North for the election of 1856?

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Eleven

61
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Where did Dred Scott get enslaved after he had been free?

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Missouri

62
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What did Dred Scott do after his owner died?

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He argued to be a free man because he was once free

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What got taken to the Supreme Court in the Dred Scott case?

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His family tried to sue for their freedom

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Did the court agree with Dred Scott?

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No

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What was Roger B. Taney’s reasoning for why Dred Scott couldn’t sue?

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Because he was not a U.S. citizen

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What did Taney say banning slavery would violate?

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He said it would violate a slaveholder’s property rights, which were protected by the fifth amendment.

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What did the Republicans charge the Democrats for?

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Republicans charged that the Democrats wanted to legalise slavery not only in all U.S. Territories, but in all the states

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Who did Abraham Lincoln challenge for a U.S. Senate seat?

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Douglass

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What did Lincoln and Douglas debate about?

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Te expansion of slavery

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What was Lincoln’s view in slavery?

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He thought it was a political wrong and suggested it did not end but it did stop expanding

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What did Douglas think of slavery?

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He agreed to prevent the expansion of slavery but he thought popular sovereignty was the best way

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What did John Brown do?

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He tried to gather the weapons at Harpers Ferry but got caught

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What was John Brown’s reason for capturing the weapons at Harper’s Ferry?

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He wanted to provoke a slavery uprising

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Where was Harper’s Ferry?

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Virginia

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Why did the Democratic Party split?

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The southerners wanted the party to defend slavery in the party’s platform but the Northerners wanted the platform to support popular sovereignty as a way if deciding whether a territory became a free or slave state

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What was a party’s platform?

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A statement of beliefs

77
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Who won the platform vote when the Democratic Party split?

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The Northerners won the platform vote

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When did many Southerners leave the Democratic Party?

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When the Northerners won the platform vote, but before the election of 1860

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Who was the Northern Democratic candidate for the election of 1860 and what did he support?

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Stephen A. Douglas supported popular sovereignty

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Who was the southern democratic representative for the election of 1860 and what did he support?

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John Breckinridge supported slavery

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Who did the Republicans nominate for the election of 1860?

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Abraham Lincoln

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Who did the constitutional party nominate for the election of 1860 and what did he support?

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John Bell wanted to preserve the union

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What was the South’s reason for why the could leave the union?

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They said since they voluntarily joined the union, they could voluntarily leave it

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What was the first state to secede from the nation?

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South Carolina

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What were the other states that seceded from the union?

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Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, and Texas joined the confederacy

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Did the confederate states of America make their own Constitution or Bill of Rights?

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They made their own constitution

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What did the confederate states of America expect in response to them leaving the union?

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A war

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What did the Northerners think of the South seceding?

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The North thought it was unconstitutional.

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What would happen if the secession of the South was permitted?

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The country would become very weak

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What did the South suspect the North was taking advantage of?

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Southerners thought the North intended to use their majority to force the South to abolish slavery

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What did the Crittenden compromise propose?

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It proposed that slavery should be protected South of the line established in the Missouri compromise, that congress should not abolish slavery in a free state, and the federal government should compensate the owners of fugitive slaves

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Did the Crittenden compromise pass or not? Why or why not?

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The compromise did not pass because every other compromise enraged one section of the country

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Who competed for the support of the North I’m re election of 1860v

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Lincoln and Douglas

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Who competed for votes in the south for the election of 1860?

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Breckinridge and Bell

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Who won the election of 1860?

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Lincoln

96
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What did Lincoln do for his inauguration?

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He took the oath of office

97
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What did Lincoln say to calm the South?

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He said he had no intention of abolishing slavery

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What did Lincoln say he would do with slavery?

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He said he did not want to invade the South but he would not abandon the government forts that stood on Southern soil

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