Chapter 10-13 Assignment

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This voided the Missouri Compromise and removed the 36º 30' line.

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Kansas Nebraska Act

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Which of the following best describes John Brown? Options: radical abolitionist who used violence to try to end slavery, a peaceful abolitionists who hated violence, a pro-slavery Senator, a strong supporter of slavery who used violence to spread slavery

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radical abolitionist who used violence to try to end slavery

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Popular Sovereignty was the idea that the people would vote to decide if their state would have slavery.

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the people would vote to decide if their state would have slavery.

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What was the key issue that was debated each time a new state was admitted to the Union before the Civil War? Options: the expansion of slavery, the building of railroads, the provision of women's suffrage, support for the homesteading

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the expansion of slavery

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This was a book that was written by Harriet Beecher Stowe that showed the evils of slavery.

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Uncle Tom's Cabin

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What did the Wilmot Proviso state?

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Slavery should not expand into the territory acquired after the Mexican American War

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Abolitionist who raided the Harper's Ferry arsenal in 1859 to arm slaves to revolt.

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John Brown

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The Compromise of 1850 included a new and tougher...

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Fugitive Slave Act.

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According to the Kansas-Nebraska Act, what would decide whether the territories became free or slave?

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popular sovereignty

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After Nat Turner's Rebellion, southern slave owners petitioned the government to?

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pass harsher slave codes