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| How did the South react to Abraham Lincoln’s election as President in 1860? | Seven Southern states seceded and formed the Confederate States of America. |
| Why did the admission of California alarm Southerners? | It upset the balance between free and slave states in the Senate. |
| Which of the following was a point made in the Dred Scott decision? | Slaves were property/ even if they lived in a free territory. |
| Senator beaten in Congress over slavery debate. | Charles Sumner |
| John Brown and his sons clashed with supporters of slavery in what plains state? | Kansas |
| In the Lincoln-Douglas debates/ Republican Abraham Lincoln/ | insisted that the territories be kept free from slavery. |
| Which part of the Compromise of 1850 was most likely demanded by southern members of Congress? | the Fugitive Slave Act |
| Why did John Brown mount his raid on the U.S. Fort at Harper’s Ferry? | to raise an army of African Americans and lead them in a revolt |
| Writer of the novel Uncle Tom’s Cabin/ which provided abolitionists with a highly effective propaganda tool to spread their message in the North. | Harriet Beecher Stowe |
| Southerners attacked Fort Sumter because they believed that | war was inevitable/ so it was better to start it on their own terms. |
| Who was the Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court whose written opinion for the court denied Dred Scott had any legal rights? | Roger B. Taney |
| Stephen Dougles’ popular sovereignty compromise included in the Kansas Nebraska Act left the decision over slavery up to | the people of the territories |
