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What effect did John Brown's raid on Harper's Ferry have on the South?

How did the Mexican-American War affect American politics?

What did the Wilmot Proviso of 1846 propose?

Who supported the Wilmot Proviso?

Senator Lewis Cass of Michigan proposed the doctrine of popular sovereignty, a measure that would allow

What did the Whigs do in an attempt to reunite their party during the presidential campaign of 1848?

Why did Zachary Taylor anger southerners when he became president in 1849?

Which issue in the debate of 1849-1850 led to the Compromise of 1850?

Which Senator argued that, when it came to ending slavery, there was "a higher law than the Constitution"—the law of God?

Per the Compromise of 1850, which state entered the union as a free state?

What was a requirement of the Fugitive Slave Act, part of the Compromise of 1850?

What happened to most fugitive slaves once they were captured?

Why did Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852) influence Northerners' attitudes toward slavery?

The United States negotiated the Gadsden Purchase in 1853

In 1854, Stephen A. Douglas sponsored the Kansas-Nebraska Act and included a section repealing the Missouri Compromise because

What did the federal government do to the Plains Indians who lived in what became Nebraska?

How did American politics change in the aftermath of the 1854 Kansas-Nebraska Act?

What effect did the shift to "geographic" parties have on political debate in the United States?

Why did the Democrats remain a national organization after 1954?

The American Party, or Know-Nothings, appeared in the mid-1850s as

What was the common thread that wove together northern men into the Republican Party in 1854?

Northern women supported the Republican Party By

Who did the Democrats nominate as their presidential candidate in the election of 1856?

The presidential election of 1856 revealed the

Early in the struggle to win Kansas, proslavery supporters

What happened when the first territorial legislature in Kansas met?

What was the result of Preston Brooks's caning of Massachusetts senator Charles Sumner in 1856?

What did the Supreme Court rule in its 1857 Dred Scott decision?

How did the Dred Scott decision increase sectional tension?

In the mid-1850s, Abraham Lincoln's search for a political home was based on his

What did Abraham Lincoln personally believe about slavery?

Who, according to Abraham Lincoln, had the responsibility to stop the spread of slavery?

How did Stephen A. Douglas respond in 1857 when proslavery forces in Lecompton, Kansas, drafted a constitution that many felt was fraudulent?

What did Douglas argue in what became known as the Freeport Doctrine?

During the debates, Stephen A. Douglas depicted Abraham Lincoln as

What was the result of the Lincoln-Douglas debates?

What happened to John Brown after his raid on Harper's Ferry?

How did a Nashville convention of southern businessmen shock the nation in 1860?

What happened when Democrats met to choose a presidential candidate in Charleston, South Carolina?

How did more moderate southern Democrats respond to the choice of John C. Breckenridge as presidential nominee?

How did the increasingly confident Republican Party prepare for the election of 1860?

What made Abraham Lincoln an attractive candidate for the Republican nomination?

Southerners felt so much hostility toward the Republican Party during the presidential election of 1860 that

In 1860, Abraham Lincoln was elected president because he had

Which Southerner argued that "I consider slavery much more secure in the Union than out of it?"

Which was the first state to secede from the Union after Lincoln's election?

Why did the slave states of the Upper South initially reject secession?

How did James Buchanan respond as the secession crisis loomed over the final weeks of his presidential administration?

In his first inaugural address, Abraham Lincoln