This well-known former slave helped hundreds of slaves escape from the south in the 1850's.
Who is Harriet Tubman?
100
This was the new anti-slavery party that was established in 1854, and counted Abraham Lincoln as one of its original founders.
What is the Republican Party?
100
This was the name of the network of routes and hiding places that slaves used to escape to the North.
What is the Underground Railroad?
100
This is the famous book written by Harriet Beecher Stowe that helped inflame people's passions over slavery in the years prior to the Civil War.
What is Uncle Tom's Cabin?
100
He was the slave who unsuccessfully sued for his freedom in a landmark 1857 supreme court case.
Who is Dred Scott?
200
He was the radical abolitionist who, in 1856, led a group that murdered five pro-slavery settlers at Pottawatomie Creek in Kansas.
Who is John Brown?
200
This was the controversial law that, as part of the Compromise of 1850, forced Northern states to assist in the capture of runaway slaves.
What is the Fugitive Slave Act?
200
This term refers to the favoring of people who were born in America over those who were immigrants.
What is nativism?
200
This Virginia town was the site of a famous failed abolitionist-led slave revolt in 1859.
What is Harpers Ferry?
200
He was chosen as the president of the Confederate States of America.
Who is Jefferson Davis?
300
He was the ambitious Senator from Illinois who was instrumental in getting key elements of the Compromise of 1850 passed.
Who is Stephen Douglas?
300
This was the nickname of the American Party, which was known for its anti-Catholic, anti-immigrant stances.
What is the Know-Nothing Party?
300
This refers to the action taken by states who withdraw from the United States.
What is secession?
300
This 1854 legislation, which was sponsored by Stephen Douglas, undid the provisions of the Missouri Compromise of 1820.
What is the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
300
He was the ineffective Democratic who preceded Abraham Lincoln as president.
Who is James Buchanan?
400
He was the fiery South Carolina politician who was known as slavery's most outspoken defender until his death in 1850.
Who is John C. Calhoun?
400
This was the name given to Stephen Douglas's complicated explanation on how slavery could be excluded from new territories despite court rulings that seemed to state otherwise.
What is the Freeport Doctrine?
400
This is the name given to the states that seceded from the United States, and fought for their independence during the Civil War.
What is the Confederacy?
400
This was the presidential election that pitted Abraham Lincoln against Stephen Douglas (and others), and led directly to the Civil War.
What is the Election of 1860?
400
He was the controversial chief justice of the Supreme Court who issue the ruling in the 1857 Dred Scott case.
Who is Roger Taney?
500
He was the first Republican candidate to run for president in 1856.
Who is John C. Fremont?
500
This was the failed 1846 legislation that sought to ban slavery from any territories that might be gained as a result of the Mexican War.
What is the Wilmot Proviso?
500
This refers to the belief that the best way to decide an issue (such as slavery) is by having the citizenry vote on it.
What is popular sovereignty?
500
This was the nickname given to the period of prolonged violence that plagued Kansas as a result of the Kansas-Nebraska Act.
What is "Bleeding Kansas?"
500
He was the influential New York newspaper editor who helped found the Republican Party in 1854.