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What event is often cited as the immediate catalyst (the first military attack)Â for the Civil War?
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The Dred Scott decision
The signing of the Emancipation Proclamation
The election of Abraham Lincoln
The attack on Fort Sumter
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What was the significance of the Missouri Compromise of 1820 in relation to the Civil War?
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It mandated the use of popular sovereignty
It attempted to balance the power between slave and free states
It established the Kansas-Nebraska Act
It abolished slavery in all territories
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What event is often cited as the immediate catalyst (the first military attack)Â for the Civil War?
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What was the significance of the Missouri Compromise of 1820 in relation to the Civil War?
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Which social movement was closely linked to the causes of the Civil War in terms of pushing for the abolition or end of slavery?
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Which legislative act intensified sectional conflict by allowing residents of territories to decide by vote to make slavery legal or not?
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What was one major consequence of the Dred Scott v. Sandford decision?
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Which attack on a US armory in 1859 further escalated tensions between the North and South regarding slavery?
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Which book written by Harriet Beacher Stowe highlighted the moral and political arguments against slavery and influenced public opinion in the North?
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Which compromise attempted to balance the interests of free and slave states by making Califonia a free state and making the slave trade illegal in Washington DC but ultimately failed to prevent the Civil War?
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What significant role did Frederick Douglass play in American history?
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Which movement was Sojourner Truth primarily associated with during her activism?
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What was the name of the abolitionist newspaper founded by William Lloyd Garrison?
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What principle did William Lloyd Garrison advocate for regarding the abolition of slavery?
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Which novel is Harriet Beecher Stowe best known for?
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What is an abolitionist?
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What event marked the beginning of the American Civil War at Fort Sumter?
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What date did the attack on Fort Sumter occur?
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What did Lincoln vow in his inaugural address regarding the Union?
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Who was the first state to secede from the Union?
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What does Lincom say to try and save the union?
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How did many Northern abolitionists view John Brown after his raid on Harpers Ferry?
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In the Dred Scott decision, what principle did the Supreme Court use to justify the idea that slaves were property?
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What principle allowed settlers in the Kansas-Nebraska Territory to decide the issue of slavery for themselves?
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Who wrote the Declaration of Independence?
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Who is known as the Father of the Constitution, being the primary architect of the Virginia Plan that laid the foundation for the U.S. Constitution?
