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History Ch20

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1. How the Northwest Ordinance regulated slavery   slavery was illegal in states north of the Ohio River and legal in states south of the Ohio River  
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2. Northerner arguments in the debate over Missouri statehood   Te ban against slavery should extend across the Mississippi River. Missouri should not be a slave state  
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3. Southerner arguments in the debate over Missouri statehood   Congress does not have the right to decide if slavery should be allowed in a new state. Te people of that state should decide  
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4. Why was it important to Southerners to keep an equal number of senators from free states and slave states in Congress   Southerners were outnumbered in the House of Representatives. If the South and North had an equal number of senators, the South would hold onto some power in Congress  
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5. What was the defeat of the Tallmadge Amendment   it would have made Missouri a free state.  
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6. What were the three decisions in the Missouri Compromise   * Missouri became a slave state. * Maine became a free state. * Congress drew an imaginary line across the Louisiana Territory and declared slavery to be banned north of the line and allowed south of it.  
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7. John Quincy Adams’s diary entry to explain how he felt about the Missouri Compromise   He decided to support the Missouri Compromise because he believe it was the best solution to create under the Constitution.  
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8. What was John Quincy Adams’s 1839 antislavery proposal   Adams proposed a constitutional amendment stating that no one could be born into slavery after 1845.  
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9. What was the gag rule, and how did it affect his proposal   Te gag rule kept Congress from debating slavery for ten years, so Congress refused to consider his proposal.  
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10. Why did Northerners in Congress accept California’s application for statehood while Southerners rejected it   * Northerners in Congress accepted California's application for statehood * Southerners rejected it because California had applied as a free state.  
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11. List four details of Henry Clay’s plan to end the deadlock over the issue of California statehood   * California would be admitted as a free state. * New Mexico and Utah would be territories open to slavery. * The slave trade would end in Washington D.C., but slave owners could keep their slaves. * A strong fugitive slave law would be passed.  
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12. Why did Dred Scott argue that he should be freed from slavery   Dred Scott's owner had taken him to Wisconsin, a free state. Scott argued that his stay in a state where slavery was outlawed made him free.  
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13. Choose and explain the two most important decisions that came out of the Supreme Court’s Dred Scott decision   * Slaves were not citizens. * No African American, slave or free, could become a citizen. * The Missouri Compromise was unconstitutional. * Banning slavery in a territory was the same as taking property from slaveholders. * Congress had a constitutional responsibility to protect the property of slaveholders in territories.  
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14. Northerner reactions to the Dred Scott decision   This verdict is outrageous and immoral! I will not obey it!  
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15. Southerner reactions to the Dred Scott decision   The question of slavery is finally settled, and in our favor. No one—especially not Congress—can take our property without just cause  
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16. Besides helping Stephen Douglas win the 1858 Senate race in Illinois, what were two other results of the Lincoln-Douglas debates   The debates made Abraham Lincoln famous nationwide and brought the moral issue of slavery into sharp focus  
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17. Why did John Brown attempt to seize the federal arsenal at Harpers Ferry, Virginia   John Brown wanted to arm slaves and begin a rebellion to end slavery  
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18. What happened in the South in December 20, 1860   South Carolina seceded  
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19. What happened in the South in February 1861   Seven states that have seceded from the Confederate States of America.  
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20. What did Lincoln state about secession in inaugural address on March 4, 1861   He appealed to the rebellious Southern states to return in peace.  
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21. What was Lincoln appeal to the rebellious Southern states   Lincoln stated that secession is wrong and unconstitutional. He appealed to the rebellious Southern states to return in peace.  
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22. How most Northerners reacted to the events at Fort Sumter in Charleston, South Carolina   “Rebels Attack Fort Sumter! War Will Restore the Union!”  
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23. Which two people worked together to balance the interests of the North and the South with regard to slavery   Daniel Webster and Henry Clay  
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24. Fugitive Slave Act Key details   * Captured runaway slaves had almost no legal rights. * Anyone caught helping runaway slaves could be jailed.  
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25. How Fugitive Slave Act pulled the Nation Apart   Many Northerners openly defied the law, which angered Southerners.  
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26. Uncle Tom’s Cabin published Key details   * Harriet Beecher Stowe wrote this novel after having a vision about the abuses of slavery. * It was first published in a newspaper and later as a novel.  
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27. How Uncle Tom’s Cabin pulled the Nation Apart   The book made millions of people in the North even more angry about slavery.  
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28. Kansas-Nebraska Act passed Key details   * Southerners in Congress agreed to support the bill only if a few changes were made to it. * The act abolished the Missouri Compromise and allowed the settlers to decide whether to allow slavery.  
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29. How Kansas-Nebraska Act pulled the Nation Apart   Northerners were outraged and feared more territory would be open to slavery.  
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30. Raid on Lawrence, Kansas Key details   * Pro- and antislavery settlers poured into Kansas to protect their interests in the new territory. * Proslavery settlers raided and attacked the city of Lawrence, the headquarters of the antislavery movement in Kansas.  
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31. How Raid on Lawrence, Kansas pulled the Nation Apart   Northerners raised money to send more antislavery settlers into the region.  
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32. Beating of Senator Sumner key details   * Senator Charles Sumner protested the violence in Kansas in a speech criticizing prominent proslavery leaders. * A nephew of one of the men he criticized beat Sumner into unconsciousness with a cane.  
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33. How Beating of Senator Sumner pulled the Nation Apart   Southerners applauded the attack while Northerners were outraged.  
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34. Missouri Compromise   An agreement made by Congress in 1829 under which Missouri was admitted to the union as a slave state and Main Was admitted as a free state  
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35. Wilmots Proviso   Proposal made in 1846 to prohibit slavery in the territory added to the United States as a result of the Mexican-American War  
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36. Compromise of 1850.   The agreements made in order to admit California int the Union as a free state  
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37. Dred Scott decision   A supreme Court decision in 1857 that held that African Americans could never be citizens of the United States and that the Missouri compromise was unconstitutional  
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