The American Civil War (Part 1)

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  1. 1. In a speech during 1858, Abraham Lincoln said, "a house _____ against itself cannot stand", calling for the country to either be all free or all slave.
  2. 5. During the Lincoln-Douglas debates, Lincoln argued that all men, including enslaved men, were entitled to basic _____.
  3. 6. What is a person who wants to get rid of slavery called?
  4. 8. During the Election of 1860, there was increasing _____ in American politics.
  5. 9. The first Republican President of the US. (Last name)
  6. 10. Due to the rivalries between states over slavery, the United States found itself in a _____ war amongst itself.
  7. 11. What law was replaced with the system of popular sovereignty?
  8. 15. During his 1st Inaugural Address, Abraham Lincoln tried to appease Southerners by saying he would not try to abolish _____ in states where it already existed.
  9. 17. Northern Democrats, Whigs, and Free Soil Westerners came together to form what political party?
  10. 18. This Act would allow citizens of a territory to determine whether the state would be a free state or a slave state.
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  1. 2. What Supreme Court case proved that African Americans are not citizens and might never be regarded equal to white men? (First & last name)
  2. 3. At the beginning of the American Civil War, the states in the south relied on slave labor for _____ to drive their economy.
  3. 4. The _____ _____ Act forced any runaway slaves caught in free states to be returned to their slave owners.
  4. 7. What incident happened as a result of the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
  5. 12. What did the states in the North rely mostly on for their economy?
  6. 13. The Republican Party did not want slavery to _____ into the new territories.
  7. 14. In 1859, John Brown and 21 other men led a raid on _____ _____ to incite a slave revolt.
  8. 15. To break away from a country and form your own.
  9. 16. Most Southerners were affiliated with this political party.