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| Lincoln made a strong effort to get the South to accept the Crittenden Compromise in order to avoid a civil war. |
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| Seven states seceded and formed the Confederate States of American during the "lame-duck" period between Lincoln's election and his inauguration. |
True |
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| The overwhelming support for Lincoln in the North gave him a majority of the total popular votes despite winning almost no votes in the South. |
False |
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| The election of 1860 was really two campaigns, Lincoln vs. Douglas in the North and Bell vs. Breckinridge in the South. |
True |
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| Northern Democrats walked out of the Democratic Party in 1860 when southerners nominated Stephen A. Douglas for president. |
False |
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| John Brown's raid at Harpers Ferry failed to set off a slave uprising but succeeded in inflaming passions in both North and South. |
True |
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| In the Lincoln-Douglas debates, Lincoln's criticisms forced Douglas to back away from his support for popular sovereignty. |
False |
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| Republicans considered the Supreme Court's Dred Scott decision invalid and vowed to defy it. |
True |
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| The Dred Scott decision upheld the doctrine of popular sovereignty that the people of each territory should determine whether or not to permit slavery. |
False |
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| Although the Republican candidate lost to Buchanan, the election of 1856 demonstrated the growing power of the new antislavery party. |
True |
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| Both South Caroline and Massachusetts defiantly reelected the principle figures in the Brooks-Sumner beating incident. |
True |
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| By opposing the proslavery Lecompton Constitution in Kansas, Senator Stephen A. Douglas was able to unite the Democratic Party. |
False |
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| The violence in Kansas was provoked by both radical abolitionists and militant proslavery forces. |
True |
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| Prosouthern Kansas pioneers brought numerous slaves with them in order to guarantee that Kansas would not become a free state. |
False |
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| Harriet Beecher Stowe's "Uncle Tom's Cabin" proved to be the most influential publication in arousing the northern and European publics against the evils of slavery. |
True |
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