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History Chap. 15 Sec. 1&2

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    Prentice Hall America: History of Our Nation
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  • What was one of the effects of Harriet Beecher Stowe's book "Uncle Tom's Cabin?"
    Northerners and southerners became more angry with each other. Many began to see slavery as a moral issue.
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  • Many white southerners considered "Uncle Tom's Cabin," propaganda,which is . . .
    false and/or misleading information
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  • How did the Kansas-Nebraska act affect the population of the territories?
    The population increased as settlers flooded into the territory
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  • How did Stephen Douglas's plan undo the Missouri Compromise?
    By allowing the territories to use popular sovereignty to decide the use of slavery, the Missouri Compromise ban was ended.
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  • How did northerners react to enforcement to the Fugitive Slave Law?
    They resisted it
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  • What did the Compromise of 1850 do about slavery in the District of Columbia
    It outlawed the buying and selling of slaves there
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  • Why was slavery in the District of Columbia such an important issue?
    As the nation's capital, the District of Columbia had special significance for northerners and southerners.
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  • What was the Compromise of 1850?
    Henry Clay's proposal to use popular sovereignty to decide whether new states had slavery, except California and DC would be a free state.
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