Kansas-Nebraska Act
The construction of this was the basis for the Kansas-Nebraska Act.
What is the transcontinental railroad?
This court case put Douglas' career in jeopardy.
What is the Dred Scott case?
This is the party that collapsed after the Kansas-Nebraska Act was passed.
What is the Whigs?
This is the slave state where Dred Scott lived.
What is Missouri?
This is the territory to where John Brown moved in order to stop slavery.
What is Kansas?
This politician proposed the Kansas-Nebraska Act.
Who was Stephen Douglas?
This is the number of times that Lincoln and Douglas met for debates.
What is 7?
This is the region of the country where the republican party didn't really have any support.
What is the South?
This is the free state where Dred Scott was taken by his owner.
What is Illinois?
This was located at Harpers' Ferry that John Brown needed.
What is an arsenals?
This was the year that the Kansas-Nebraska Act was proposed.
What is 1854?
This is the political idea that Douglas argued for.
What is popular sovereignty?
The Republican Party supported this.
What is business?
This is the decision that the Missouri Supreme Court made in the Dred Scott case.
What is declared him free?
This is the man who was sent in to capture John Brown.
Who was Robert Lee?
This group opposed the Kansas-Nebraska Act.
Who are the northerners/abolitionists?
This is the man who won the election illinois senator.
Who was Douglas?
The Republican party took its name from this president's party.
Who was Jefferson?
He was the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court that ruled in the Dred Scott case.
Who was Roger Taney?
This is the group that supported Brown financially.
Who was the Secret Six?
This part of the Missouri Compromise was repealed by the Kansas-Nebraska Act.
What is the 36030' line?
This is the word that Lincoln used to describe slavery.
What is immoral?
The Republican party won the presidency in this year.
What is 1860?
This is the law that the Supreme Court and Roger Taney ruled to be unconstitutional.
What was the Missouri Compromise?
This is the day that John Brown was arrested.
What is October 18, 1859?