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What group of politicians emerged upon the death of John C. Calhoun and were rabid on the subjects of slavery, pro-secession, and pro-nullification?

Who raided Harper’s Ferry, Virginia, in 1859 to start a slave uprising, was capture and executed for treason, and symbolize a martyr for abolitionism by the North?

Because England still believed in bullionism, Parliament passed the Currency Act to forbid colonists from paying debts with nor printing paper money. Instead, colonists were supposed to only pay in gold and silver.

Whose March to the Sea included attacks on Southern citizens to break morale, burning Atlanta, and capturing Savannah?

The ____________ was the first and most important free-Black regiment formed during the Civil War.

Lincoln had a moderate plan to gradually incorporate the former Confederate states into the Union but was assassinated by ____________ on April 14, 1865.

Despite the influence of the Enlightenment on Revolutionary ideals, Jefferson, Adams, and Franklin removed which “natural, inalienable right” from John Locke’s doctrine?

In 1858, ____________ and ____________ debated the Free Port Doctrine, which stated states should decide if they wanted to be slave or free, but the major issue that emerged was Dred Scott decision.

Who represented the spokesman of the South, dying in the 1850s and leaving a vacuum of power, which led to the emergence of the Fire Eaters?

____________ founded the colony of ____________ in 1585, but it failed when colonists disappeared.