Causes of the Civil War

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The South was a major producer of the cotton used in northern mills. This influenced what?

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The economic development of the United States?

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May people feared the admission of new slave states. Therefore, many abolitionists were against what?

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the annexation of new Western territory

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What did these developments have in common? They wanted to end the abolitionists movement, They sought changes to end slavery, They thought that Texas should secede, They wanted Abe Lincoln to resign

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They sought changes to end slavery

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In 1854, SpongeBob, a fugitive slave from South Carolina, was arrested in Boston and returned to South Carolina. Which federal legislation provided the basis for Sponge's arrest?

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The Compromise of 1850

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Fighting broke out between pro-slavery and anti-slavery groups in Kansas.  This was known as what cause of the Civil War?

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Kansas Nebraska Act

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What Court Case would match these headlines? McCulloch v. Maryland, Dred Scott v. Sandford, Worcester v. Georgia, Gibbons v. Ogden

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Dred Scott v. Sandford

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The Three-Fifths Compromise outlined the process for states to count slaves as?

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Part of the population in order to determine representation and taxation for the federal government.

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Who represented the interests of the North, supported the High Protective Tariff, opposed the spread of slavery into new territories, supported the Compromise of 1850, and faced Abraham Lincoln in a series of debates?

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Stephen A Douglass

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The Compromise of 1850 allowed certain territories to use___________________________ to determine whether the territory would be free or slave.  This decision applied to much of the land gained from the the U.S. Mexican War.

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Popular sovereignty

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Who strongly supported the theory of nullification regarding a federal tax law?

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John C. Calhoun