Compromises
Politics
Secession
Political Spectrum
Miscellaneous
100
Term for allowing residents of a state to vote on the issue of slavery?
What is popular sovereignty?
100
New political party that opposed expanding slavery to western territories
What is the Free Soil Party?
100
This was the first state to secede from the Union
What is South Carolina?
100
The two major parties in the United States
What are the Democrat and Republican parties?
100
The author of Uncle Tom's Cabin
Who is Harriet Beecher Stowe?
200
Known as the "Great Compromiser"
Who is Henry Clay?
200
Became president in 1860
Who is Abe Lincoln?
200
Location of John Brown's raid
What is Harper's Ferry, VA?
200
Caned Charler Sumner on the floor of the Senate
Who is Preston Brooks?
200
Color and symbol of the parties
What is blue and donkey for the Democrats and red and elephant for the Republicans?
300
The slave trade was allowed here in the Compromise of 1850
What is Missouri?
300
Fought Lincoln for senate seat in 1858?
Who is Stephan Douglas?
300
Number of states in total to secede
What is 11?
300
The parties and their political philosophies
What is Democrat= liberal and Republican= conservative?
300
Complete the following Lincoln quote: "A house . . ."
What is "against itself cannot stand".?
400
He proposed the Kansas-Nebraska Act
Who is Stephen Douglas?
400
Lincoln was a member of this party
What is the Republican Party?
400
When elected, Lincoln made this promise to slave states
What is he would not try to change the slave states to free states?
400
The parties that believe in small and big goverment
What is Democrat=big, Republican=small?
400
The positions of the parties on any issue
What is.......?
500
This state was called "Bleeding...."
What is Kansas?
500
A reason why the South didn't want to give up slavery
What is they were heavily invested in it, they believed the Constitution protected it....
500
Southern Democrat candidate for president in the 1860 election
Who is John Breckinridge?
500
The location of the philosophies on the spectrum
What is conservative on the right and liberal on the left?
500
The story of Dred Scott
What is he was taken to free states, sued for freedom, lost in Supreme court?
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