Question 1

A slave state added in the Missouri Compromise

Accepted Answer

Missouri

Question 2

Banned states from becoming slave states if the land came from Mexico.

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Wilmot Priviso

Question 3

Lincoln viewed ended slavery as what?

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Morally right

Question 4

A federal arsenal that held weapons and ammunition

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Harper's Ferry

Question 5

Ruled against Dred Scott saying he was property and could not sue for his freedom.

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Supreme Court

Question 6

An exaggerated loyalty to a particular region of the country is called

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sectionalism

Question 7

The plan that preserved the balance between slave and free states in the Senate was the

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Missouri Compromise

Question 8

The law that required all citizens to help catch runaway enslaved people was the

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Fugitive Slave Act

Question 9

Missourians who traveled in armed groups to cross the border and vote in elections became known as

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Border Ruffians

Question 10

Rival proslavery and antislavery governments existed in

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Kansas

Question 11

A war between citizens of the same country is called a

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civil war

Question 12

Antislavery Whigs, Democrats, and Free-Soilers joined together to form the

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Republican Party

Question 13

What Supreme Court decision meant that the Constitution protected slavery?

Accepted Answer

Dred Scott Case

Question 14

Who believed that slavery was a moral issue?

Accepted Answer

Lincoln

Question 15

Lincoln was relatively unknown throughout the country before the

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congressional election of 1858

Question 16

free state

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Maine

Question 17

Missouri

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slave state

Question 18

to leave the Union

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secede

Question 19

runaway slaves

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fugitives

Question 20

sued for his freedom

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Dred Scott

Question 21

violent abolitionist

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John Brown

Question 22

boundary of slavery in the Missouri Compromise

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36'30N latitude

Question 23

allowing the people to decide

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Popular Sovereignty

Question 24

fighting between proslavery and antislavery forces

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Bleeding Kansas

Question 25

Won the Congressional Election of 1858 over Abraham Lincoln

Accepted Answer

Stephen Douglas

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