Causes I
Causes II
Causes III
Heroes & Villains
Hardships
100
This abolitionist wrote the book Uncle Tom's Cabin.
Who is Harriet Beecher Stowe?
100
The goal of the Republican Party.
What is to stop the expansion of slavery?
100

What does secede mean? 

To leave a country (ex. secede from Union)

100

Who was the President of the Confederacy? 

Jefferson Davis

100
This region had a leader with no military experience.
What is the North.
200
What was the nickname for Kansas after the Kansas Nebraska Act?
What is Bleeding Kansas?
200

This state was the first to leave the Union.

What is South Carolina (fired on Fort Sumter)?

200

How did the Fugitive Slave Act impact northerners? 

They were required to help catch runaway slaves or jail

200

Name two people who escaped slavery and helped the Union during the Civil War:

Who are Robert Smalls, Susie King Taylor or William Carney

200

Describe the shelter that was provided to every Confederate soldier.

Blanket (no tent)

300
This incident ended all thoughts of compromise over slavery in the federal government.
What is the beating of Charles Sumner in Congress?
300
This reversed the Missouri Compromise.
What is the Kansas Nebraska Act?
300

What free state joined the Union due to the Compromise of 1850?  

California

300

What did Preston Brooks do that was celebrated in the South? 

He beat Senator Charles Sumner for making an anti-slavery speech

300

This part of the country was badly damaged during the Civil War.

What is the South?

400
What did the Kansas Nebraska Act lead to in Kansas?
What is a mini civil war?
400
The reason John Brown attacked the arsenal at Harpers Ferry.
What is to get weapons to help slaves escape and rebel?
400

What was the purpose of the Missouri Compromise? 

Keep free and slave states balanced in federal government

400

Why should Dred Scott have the right to be freed?

His owner took him to live in a free state

400

No slaves were freed from this area during the Civil War.

Border States (loyal to Union)

500
These two states were added to the USA during the Missouri Compromise.
What is Missouri and Maine.
500
This was the decision of the Dred Scott Case.
What is the Missouri Compromise was illegal and slavery could not be banned in any state?
500

What Senator wrote the Kansas Nebraska Act? 

Senator Stephen Douglas

500
What famous Lincoln speech starts "Four Score and seven years ago..." 

Gettysburg Address

500
The North had this many more states than the South.
What are 12 states?
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