8th SS Chapter 16 – Flashcards
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Which of these was the result of enforcement of the Fugitive Slave Act
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anger in the North
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Which position did Franklin Pierce begin holding in 1853
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president of the US
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James Polk and the Democrats favored the annexation of which state
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Texas
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What does abstain mean
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to not vote
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Who was a violent opponent of slavery
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John Brown
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What was the main topic of he Lincoln Douglas debates
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slavery
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Who believed that neither Congress nor local governments had the authority to ban slavery from a territory
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John C Calhoun
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The Whig Party selected Millard Fillmore as a presidential candidate in 1849
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False
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The Missouri Compromise preserved the balance between slave states and free states
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True
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The Wilmot Proviso allowed California to enter the Union as a free State
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False
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John C Calhoun offered a counter proposal to the Wilmot Proviso
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True
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Both Zachary Taylor and Lewis Cass ignored the issue of slavery during the 1848 presidential election
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True
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won the 1848 presidential election
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Zachary Taylor
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arose from the Lincoln Douglas debates
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freeport Doctrine
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wrote Civil Disobedience
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Henry David Thoreau
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Wrote the Dred Scott decision
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Roger B Taney
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Stephen Douglas's resolution of Henry Clay's slavery plan
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Compromise of 1850
