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Why was South Carolina so interested in new states added to the United States prior to the Civil War?

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If the government outlawed slavery in the new states, it wouldn’t be long before the government made the practice illegal in SC.

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The Missouri Compromise of 1820 established the southern boundary of Missouri as an important political divider. According to the compromise, what did this line divide?

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New slave states and new free states.

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Written by John C. Calhoun in 1828, the South Carolina Exposition and Protest fueled the Nullification Crisis by arguing that a state could:

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Void (veto) a federal law.

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Which of the following describes Vice-President John C. Calhoun’s view on the Nullification Crisis?
Calhoun believed that individual states should be able to nullify (or void) federal laws if the laws were damaging to the state.

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Calhoun believed that individual states should be able to nullify (or void) federal laws if the laws were damaging to the state.

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During the Nullification Crisis of the 1830s, South Carolinians were divided into two groups—“the Nullifiers” and “the Unionists.” What was the major difference between the two groups?

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The Nullifiers wanted to oppose the federal government; the Unionists wanted to support the federal government.

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Historians often note that the Compromise of 1850 delayed the Civil War in the United States for an entire decade. The Compromise eased tensions dealing with which of the following issues?

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The institution of slavery.

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One of the most controversial parts of the Compromise of 1850 was the Fugitive Slave Law. South Carolinians supported this law, but it angered people in the North because it did which of the following? Protected the right of southern slave owners to travel north into the free states to recover a runaway slave.

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Protected the right of southern slave owners to travel north into the free states to recover a runaway slave.

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Which of the following best describes the way the leaders of South Carolina felt about the issue of States’ Rights in the decades prior to the Civil War? They didn’t want the federal government to interfere with the laws of the state., They believed that the laws in one state should apply to the rest of the states in the nation., They believed that the state government should keep tight control over its citizens., They believed that the nation’s more populated states should make all of the major decisions.

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They didn’t want the federal government to interfere with the laws of the state.

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One of the most controversial parts of the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854 was that it allowed the public in a certain area to vote on whether or not to allow slavery. This concept, introduced by Senator Stephen Douglas, was known as:

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Popular Sovereignty.

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This historical Supreme Court case is known as:

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Dred Scott vs. Sanford.