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llinois Democrat Stephen A. Douglas authored _______, which opened two new territories in the former Louisiana territory to the expansion of slavery.

Many Southern leaders proposed arming slaves and enlisting them in the Confederate army, especially near the end of the war.

T he majority of Southern farmers were:

Lynchings and other forms of mob violence against African-Americans occurred only in the South.

What was the purpose of the American Colonization Society?

What group of northerners often scapegoated free black laborers for their diminishing economic prospects and sought revenge through mob violence?

What African-American educator was born into slavery but went on to found the Tuskegee Institute and became a vocal opponent of segregation and Jim Crow?

What radical organization praised and promoted violence, referred to the police as “pigs” and the US as “Babylon,” and caused enough fear and paranoia to be targeted by the FBI?

Which emerging political ideology, founded on the principles of John Locke  and other Enlightenment thinkers, advocated equality before the law, government based on consent, and individual economic freedoms as the best way to protect individual rights?

What event caused Britain and France to declare war on Germany, beginning World War II?