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| who was elected president in 1860? | Republican Abraham Lincoln |
| Why was the republican party formed? | To stop the spread of slavery |
| Define abolitionists | people who want to abolish slavery |
| What did the Kansas-Nebraska Act do? | Kansas and Nebraska could vote whether or not they wanted slavery |
| what was the Nullification Crisis? | South Carolina felt a tariff was unfair and decided not to pay it |
| how did the Compromise of 1850 affect the number of slave states in the U.S.? | States in the Mexican Cession would vote on whether or not they wanted slavery |
| when did Texas secede? | February 1861 |
| define secede | to withdraw from an organization or nation |
| define allegiance | loyalty to a country |
| define States' Rights | view that if a state does not agree with a federal law, it could choose to disobey it |
| what happened to Sam Houston? | He was removed as governor because he refused to swear an oath of allegiance to |
| define ordinance | an offiial order |
| what was the raid on Harper's Ferry? | John Brown led a raid on a military post to secure weapons and free slaves |
