What event highlighted the violent clash between pro and antislavery factions in the 1850s? Options: The Missouri Compromise, The Caning of Sumner, The Dred Scott Decision, The Kansas-Nebraska Act.
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The Caning of Sumner
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The Wilmot Proviso was introduced in ____.
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1846
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What was the main issue that consumed Congress in 1850 related to the Mexican Cession?
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The expansion of slavery into new territories
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Who was the elder statesman for the proslavery position during the debate over California's admission as a free state?
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John C. Calhoun
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Fill in the blank: The Fugitive Slave Act, as advocated by the South, provided federal money or 'bounties' to ________.
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slave-catchers
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What was one of the main outcomes of the Compromise of 1850?
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California was admitted as a free state.
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Fill in the blank: The Fugitive Slave Act showed that slaveholders were willing to use the power of the _______ to bend people in other states to their will.
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federal government
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