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1. Who was the Republican president whose election sparked the Civil War?
2. What document revoked the Missouri Compromise, opening western territories above the Missouri Compromise line to the possibility of slavery?
3. Which House Representative beat Northerner Charles Sumner into a coma with a stick on the Senate floor?
4. John Brown has been called both a hero and a madman. Everyone associates his name with Harper's Ferry. But, what is the name of the creek along which John Brown and his followers hacked five pro-slavery supporters to death?
5. The novel "Uncle Tom's Cabin" brought much support for the abolition of slavery. Who wrote it?
6. Predicting the Civil War, who said "a house divided against itself cannot stand"?
7. The election of 1848 was a close race between Whig Zachary Taylor and Democrat Lewis Cass. Taylor won, but whose 290,000 votes swung the election away from the Democrats?
8. The Dred Scott case was a major sectional issue, revolving around the freedom of an African American. Who was the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court at the time of the Dred Scott opinion?
9. The status of a territory acquired from one of these countries was a major issue between the North and South. Which?
10. "Bleeding Kansas" refers to what?
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