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Why is Robert Purvis important?
Formally organized the underground railroad
The Census of 1850 reveals that slavery is virtually non-existent in what region?
Northern states
What did the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo do?
1) ended Mexican war
2) added 1 mil square miles of land to the US
Who “put forth” or suggested the Compromise of 1850? (He is a senator from Kentucky)
senator Henry clay
What Act takes the place of the Missouri Compromise?
Kansas-Nebraska act
What did the new Fugitive Slave laws enable Southerners to do?
enabled southerners to reclaim runaway slaves who had escaped the North
What is the name for the time period of violence over the issue of slavery that breaks out in the Kansas/Nebraska territory in 1854?
Bleeding Kansas
Who leads a rebellion to overtake Harpers Ferry, Virginia in the hopes of causing a slave uprising?
John Brown
Who puts down the rebellion at Harper’s Ferry and captures John Brown?
Robert E. Lee
In the election of 1860, who is elected president?
Abraham Lincoln
Who is unanimously elected President of the Confederacy?
Jefferson Davis
who came up with the anaconda plan?
general Winfield Scott
