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Miller Card Test #14

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Founder of Pennsylvania colony   William Penn  
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Refers to the lanterns placed in a Boston Church warning "The British were coming."   One if by land, two if by sea  
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Author of Common Sense   Thomas Paine  
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Abraham Lincoln speech   House Divided  
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Slave taken into free territory and then returned to slave territory weith his master   Dred Scott  
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Ran against Abraham Lincoln for president in 1860 and lost   Stephen Douglas  
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His writing favored American independence from Great Britain   Thomas Paine  
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John Brown captured here in 1859   Harpers Ferry  
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signal to guide Paul Revere   One if by land, two if by sea  
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Ran against Abraham Lincoln for U.S. Senate and won   Stephen Douglas  
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Son of a British admiral who converted to the Quaker faith   William Penn  
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Known to be friendly to Native Americans   William Penn  
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Idea that states could set aside U.S. laws they didn't agree with   nullification  
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Author of American Crisis   Thomas Paine  
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His court case said African-Americans could not bring suit in court because they could not be U.S. citizens   Dred Scott  
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Said the United States could not continue to be half free and half slave   House Divided  
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John C. Calhoun of South Carolina favored this doctrine   Nullification  
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Abolitionist John Brown tried to take weapons from U.S. arsenal here, but failed   Harpers Ferry  
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From a poem by Henry Wordsworth Longfellow   One if by land, two if by sea  
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Given land in America to create a Quaker colony   William Penn  
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Route used to travel to the west in the 1840s and 1850s   Oregon Trail  
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President of the Confederacy   Jefferson Davis  
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Said the Missouri Compromise was unconstitutional   Dred Scott  
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In 1858, he participated in a series of debates about slavery and other issues   Stephen Douglas  
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United States Supreme Court Case   Dred Scott  
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U. S. President during the Civil War   Abraham Lincoln  
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Date the Civil War began   April 12, 1861  
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First pitched battle of the Civil War   Bull Run, also known as Manassas  
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Fired the first shot of the Civil War   Confederate Edmund Ruffin  
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Meaning of secede   To leave  
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