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Unit 5 – Civil War and Reconstruction, 1848–1877
Topic 5.6
The concept of popular sovereignty was a key issue in which of the following events leading up to the Civil War?
The Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854
The secession of South Carolina from the Union in 1860
The election of Abraham Lincoln in 1860
The Dred Scott v. Sandford decision in 1857
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