topic 1- Understanding Popular Sovereignty and Slavery

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Who was a violent opponent of slavery and hoped to start slave revolts across the South?

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John Brown

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Blue to the right is what and red to the right is what?

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Red:Confedaracy
Blue:Union

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Why were free states unhappy with the Fugitive Slave Law?

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It required free states to return runaway slaves to the South

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What is popular sovereignty?

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the people decide if a territory or state is to be free or slave

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What was the main topic of the Lincoln-Douglas debates?

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slavery

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(a) _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ planned to raid ​ (b) _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ in order to capture the federal ​ (c) _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ to arm slaves and start a ​ (d) _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ .

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John Brown, Harpers Ferry, VA, arsenal, rebellion

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Which contentious concept related to states' rights and federal authority, often associated with the Civil War, involved the idea that states had the right to reject or invalidate federal laws they deemed unconstitutional?

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nullification

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Why did Dred Scott sue for his freedom?

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His owner had taken him to live in a free state

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The Missouri Compromise tried to maintain the balance between slave states and free states.

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True

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_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ was the first state to vote to secede from the Union.

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South Carolina