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Question

1. The antislavery extremist _____ was involved in violence when he and a small group hacked five men to death with swords after the sack of Lawrence. The violence on both sides touched off a minor civil war in Kansas dubbed _____ in which dozens of people lost their lives.

2. The _____ were slave states that stayed with the Union. They were very important for both sides because of their resources and transportation networks, population, and access to rivers for transportation. They were so important that Lincoln took extraordinary measures to maintain the Union's authority, especially in Maryland, including suspending habeas corpus. Ultimately the Taney court ruled in _____ that only Congress could suspend habeas corpus, not the president.

3. Lincoln issued the _____ on January 1, 1863, which declared that slaves in the unconquered portions of the Confederacy were "forever free." However, it said nothing about slaves in the areas of the South already conquered or the _____ that had stayed loyal to the Union.