Module #2 - Exam Review #2

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Allowed Missouri to enter the union as a slave state, Maine to enter the union as a free state, prohibited slavery north of latitude 36˚ 30' within the Louisiana Territory

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Missouri Compromise

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Anti-slavery activists who demanded the immediate end of slavery, such as, William Lloyd Garrison and Frederick Douglass

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Abolitionists

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An agreement designed to ease tensions caused by the expansion of slavery into western territories that led to California entering as a free state and a strict enforced Fugitive Slave Act

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Compromise of 1850

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This act created the territories of Kansas and Nebraska, repealed the Missouri Compromise of 1820, and allowed settlers in those territories to determine if they would allow slavery within their boundaries, which led to "Bleeding Kansas".

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Kansas-Nebraska Act

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Supreme Court decision which stated slaves were property, and ruled the Missouri Compromise unconstitutional

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Dred Scott v. Sandford

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An attempt by a white abolitionist to start an armed slave revolt by seizing a United States arsenal at Harpers Ferry, Virginia. He was executed for treason. Many in the North hailed him as a martyr, while the south saw him as a terrorist.

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John Brown's Raid

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President Lincoln declared all slaves in rebelling states to be free but did not affect slavery in non-rebelling Border States.

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Emancipation Proclamation

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Abolished and prohibits slavery in the United States

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Thirteenth Amendment

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Why did President Lincoln suspend the writ of habeas corpus in 1861?

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To arrest anti-Unionists without trial and conduct the war against the Confederacy without more conflict.

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Amendment ratified in 1868 which granted citizenship to any person born or naturalized in the United States

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Fourteenth Amendment