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In the middle of a cross-country flight, Otis begins to feel nauseated. Due to preparedness, what is Otis most likely to believe caused his nausea?

Lectures indicated that to qualify as a planter in the Old South, one had to own fifty or more slaves.  Lectures also noted that nearly all free southerners were planters.

Why did the Kansas-Nebraska Act go into effect?   Considering all the damage that resulted from this law, what was the purpose of this legislation?

A number of future Civil War soldiers and leaders fought in the Mexican-American War. 

Andrew Johnson, who became president after the assassination of Abraham Lincoln, was a southerner who owned slaves.

When southern states turned themselves into a Confederacy – a political system in which each state is sovereign – they were attempting an arrangement that had never before been tried in United States history.  

Lectures indicated that to qualify as a planter in the Old South, one had to own fifty or more slaves.  Lectures also noted that nearly all free southerners were planters.

What Congressional event first indicated to northerners and southerners that their respective regions were significantly and disturbingly different?

With the Gold Rush, California’s population rapidly swelled to nearly 100,000 people in about a year.  Accordingly, California petitioned to become a formal United States territory.  That’s a normal part of the process of becoming a state.  What happened when California made this completely reasonable request and why?

What was the argument put forward the the “South Carolina Exposition and Protest?