US History I Final Review 4

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How did the Dred Scott decision impact the status of territories regarding slavery?

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It ruled that the Missouri Compromise was unconstitutional, allowing slavery in all territories.

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The first state to leave the Union after the Election of 1860 was...

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South Carolina

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What was the main purpose of the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854?

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To allow states to enter the union with or without slavery as decided by popular sovereignty

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What did the Compromise of 1850 include?

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The admission of California as a free state.

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What was the main purpose of the Wilmot Proviso introduced by David Wilmot in 1846?

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To prevent slavery in any land acquired from Mexico

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General for the Confederate army; fought for his home state of Virginia; never won a battle on Union soil

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Robert E. Lee

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Led a "March to the Sea" campaign after burning the railroad hub in Atlanta, Ga to the ground

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William Tecumseh Sherman

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Northerners who migrated to the mostly destroyed post-war south to make large profits and/or help freedmen were known as

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Carpetbaggers

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The US government created what organization to help former slaves and poor whites?

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Freedman's Bureau

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Harriet Beecher Stowe wrote a book to show the cruelties of slavery called

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Uncle Tom's Cabin