Unit 3B: Civil War Causes and Key Events

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During the 1840s, supporters of Manifest Destiny favored acquiring Texas and California.

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acquiring Texas and California

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President Lincoln made this statement in an effort to: convince Southerners that he posed no threat to their way of life (maintain unity)

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convince Southerners that he posed no threat to their way of life (maintain unity)

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The Supreme Court ruling in Dred Scott v. Sanford (1857) helped to increase sectional conflict because the decision

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denied Congress the power to regulate slavery in the territories

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Which event led directly to the secession of several Southern states from the Union?

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election of Abraham Lincoln as president

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Throughout the Civil War, an important advantage the North had over the South was that the North

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had greater manufacturing capabilities

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The Compromise of 1850 was an attempt to resolve issues related to the protection and spread of slavery.

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the protection and spread of slavery

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What did the Missouri Compromise of 1820 accomplish?

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It preserved the balance between slave and free states in the Senate.

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Who is the slave or former slave that lost his case, then won his case, then lost his case and then took his case all the way to the Federal Supreme Court and lost his case trying to gain his freedom?

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Dred Scott

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What was popular sovereignty?

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Allowed territories in the west to vote whether they wanted slavery or not.

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This law required that northern states forcibly returned escaped slaves to their owners.

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Fugitive Slave Law