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Chapter 14: Storm Clouds Over the Nation

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What new political party was formed in 1854?

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Republican Party

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Why did the Confederates fire on Fort Sumter?

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Lincoln was sending supplies to the fort

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How did Southerners acquire their slaves?

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By buying them from slave traders who stole them from Africa.

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What important case regarding slavery was decided by the Supreme Court in 1854?

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The Dred Scott Decision

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What was the one piece of literature that contributed most to the abolitionist cause in the years prior to the Civil War?

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Uncle Tom's Cabin

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What did Southern extremists threaten to do if Republicans won the election of 1860?

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Secede from the Union.

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Who was the leading black abolitionist who traveled and gave lectures against slavery?

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Frederick Douglas

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What state was literally split in two by the Civil War?

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Virginia

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What was the furthest northern destination for the Underground Railroad?

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Canada

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Who was chosen as the Confederate States of America's first president?

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Jefferson Davis

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Why did Abraham Lincoln ultimately win the presidential election of 1860?

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Because the Democrat vote was divided among several candidates.

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Were abolitionist activities limited to white Northerners?

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No, abolitionists were also African and some were in the South.

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What word meant granting freedom to the slaves?

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emancipation

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How many Southern states did Abraham Lincoln win in the 1860 election.

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None!

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How did people react to John Brown's abolitionist actions?

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Many considered him a martyr even though he committed criminal acts to further the abolitionist cause.

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What was the chief reason slavery grew in the south?

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Agricultural crops grown required many laborers.

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What was the first state to secede from the Union?

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South Carolina

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Southerners based their political views on what?

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The contract theory of government and Amendment X

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Lifestyles in the North and South were very different in what ways?

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The North was largely industrialized and the South was primarily agricultural.

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What escaped slave repeatedly returned to the South to help other slaves escape along the Underground Railroad?

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Harriet Tubman

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What secret network of people gave aid to runaway slaves traveling north?

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The Underground Railroad

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How did Kansas come to be known as "Bleeding Kansas"?

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Because of the competition between pro-slavery and antislavery groups for control of the territory.

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What term denotes the voyage on a slave ship from Africa to the Americas?

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Middle Passage

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What fraction of the Southern population were slaves in 1860?

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One-third of all Southerners

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True or False: The US was the last major western nation to ban foreign slave trade?

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True

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