Maps
Bleeding Kansas
John Brown
Compromises
Vocabulary (Spell)
People and Places
Timelines
100
This land acquisition finalized the US-Mexican border in 1853: 
What was the Gadsden Purchase?
100
"Go West Young Man!" is a phrase he says he never uttered. Nevertheless, thousands of this man's abolitionist readers followed his advice.
Who was Horace Greeley?
100
Ironically, the first casualty of his "armed rebellion" in Virginia was a free black man, exactly what he wanted to help create more of.
Who was John Brown?
100
Henry Clay was often referred to as the Great Compromiser or this other "calming" pseudonym.
What is the Great Pacifier?
100
To free slaves by law, the way President Lincoln did in 1862 or the 13th Amendment did in 1865.
What is to E-M-A-N-C-I-P-A-T-E?
100
Dred Scott was not willed to her, but she rented him out anyways (not that her new hubby knew)!
Who was Irene Emerson?
100
State created after the Gold Rush, but before the Kansas-Nebraska Act.
What is California?
200
The event illustrated here is best associated with this man, "The Great Compromiser." 
Who was Henry Clay?
200
This controversial revolutionary "made waves" at Pottawatomie Creek in May of 1856.
Who was John Brown?
200
In Kansas in May of 1856, John Brown was accompanied by five of these; he had eight total.
Who were his sons?
200
This 1820 latitude demarked the northern extent of any future slave state, at least until 1854.
What was the 36º30' line?
200
It permitted ME to enter the Union in 1820, MO in 1821, along with six other states from 1836 to 1848.
What is the M-I-S-S-O-U-R-I C-O-M-P-R-O-M-i-S-E?
200
Illinois chose Douglas for Senate in 1858, but chose this upstart political rival of Douglas in the 1860 presidential race.
Who was Abraham Lincoln?
200
A "little revolt" between Scott v. Sandford and the election of Lincoln?
What was John Brown's Raid (Harpers Ferry, 1859)?
300
The name of the "country" formed by the 11 gray slaveholding states pictured here. It lasted only four and a half years, from December 1860 to April 1865. 
What was the Confederate States of America (CSA).
300
This Kansan town was the Free State headquarters, before it was "sacked" on May 21, 1856.
What was Lawrence, KS?
300
John Brown was supported and often praised by northern abolitionists such as this New York Tribune tycoon.
Who was Horace Greeley?
300
The Fugitive Slave Act was a counterbalance to the closure of the Washington DC slave market in this, the second slavery compromise.
What was the Compromise of 1850?
300
The journalist best associated with Bleeding Kansas, that place out "west." You should go there!
Who was "(H-O-R-A-C-E) G-R-E-E-L-E-Y?"
300
According to Lincoln, "a house divided" cannot do this.
What is stand?
300
Conflict between the Annexation of Texas and the Mexican Cession.
What was the Mexican-American War?
400
Combined, these two Democrats won all the Electoral College votes from twelve of the fifteen secessionist and Border States, plus three more electors from New Jersey (blue states below).
Who were Stephen Douglas and John C. Breckenridge.
400
It was this congressional "law" that put the theory of Popular Sovereignty into practice in 1854.
What was the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
400
John Brown's failed attempt at seizing the federal arsenal here, lead to Brown's trial and execution for treason by this US state.
What was Virginia?
400
The aim of adding new states to the Union under the Missouri Compromise of 1820 in pairs, one free and one slave, was maintaining political balance in this federal legislative body.
What is the US Senate?
400
He could have had his freedom in Illinois or Wisconsin, but lost it in Missouri and DC; ultimately his first master's family bought it for him. Unfortunately, he lost his humanity in the process.
Who was "(D-R-E-D) S-C-O-T-T?
400
Texans today look back fondly on these nine years, the span of the romantic Texas Republic, between the Texan Revolution and the Annexation of Texas by the US.
What are 1836 to 1845?
400
Only US state admitted after 1820 but before 1836.
What is Missouri?
500
Dred Scott married Harriet Robinson in the Free Territory of Wisconsin, now known as this mid-western state:
What is Minnesota?
500
"Bleeding Kansas" elevated John Brown's status, but lowered the esteem of this northern Democrat in the process, who secured only 12 Electoral College votes in 1860.
Who was Stephen Douglas?
500
As a Jayhawker, Brown sought out opportunities to avenge the actions of these pro-slavery "bullies."
Who were Border Ruffians?
500
The crisis which undermined the Missouri Compromise in the late 1840s, namely, the sudden westward expansion of the American frontier, was the handiwork of this ambitious, if temporary, national figure. He told you so.
Who was James K. Polk?
500
To free one's own slaves as an act of kindness. Thank you, Master Washington.
What is to M-A-N-U-M-I-T?
500
This US Supreme Court Chief Justice's landmark 1857 ruling that blacks never were, nor could they ever become "people" in the eyes of the government, made further compromise over slavery virtually impossible.
Who was Roger Taney?
500
This US state was admitted to the Union approximately 26 months after the secession of Virginia in April, 1861.
What is West Virginia (June 20, 1863)?