11th Grade: Chapter 8

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The first battle between those favoring the extension of slavery and those opposing it took place in

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Kansas

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The issue of slavery's expansion divided the country not along party lines, but along

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sectional lines

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A free person of color could be falsely taken into custody under the terms of the

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Fugitive Slave Act

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If California entered the Union as a free state, the slaveholding states would become a minority in the House of Representatives.

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House of Representatives

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After the Kansas-Nebraska Act passed, Northerners headed for Kansas because

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they wanted to create an antislavery majority there

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Which of the following was an attempt to resolve the issue of slavery in the territories, but resulted in worsening the sectional conflict AND became a political issue itself? Options: the Dred Scott decision, the Lincoln-Douglas debates, the election of 1856, the Republican Party

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the Dred Scott decision

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The Democratic nominee for president in 1856 was James Buchanan. His record in Congress showed that he believed the best way to save the Union was to make concessions to

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the South.

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Stephen A. Douglas's reply that he accepted the Dred Scott ruling—but asserted that territories could exclude slavery by refusing to pass the local laws needed to regulate and enforce it—became known as the

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Freeport Doctrine.

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John Brown's intention in raiding the arsenal at Harpers Ferry was to arm enslaved people and begin an insurrection against slaveholders.

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enslaved people and begin an insurrection against slaveholders.

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Anger over the Kansas-Nebraska Act resulted in a new coalition that became the _______ Party.

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Republican