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| 1. Who were the members of the free-soil coalition, and what arguments did they use to demand that slavery not spread to the territories? |
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| 2. Why did the issue of statehood for California precipitate a crisis for the Union? |
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| 3. What were the major elements of the Compromise of 1850?
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| 4. How did the Kansas-Nebraska Act initiate the collapse of the second party system? |
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| 5. Why did the southern states secede? |
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