Compromises
Politics
Secession
Violence
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
This law allowed slaveowners to travel into northern states to retrieve runaway slaves
What is the Fugitive Slave Act?
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 when Zachary Taylor died in office
Who is Millard Fillmore?
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
The author of Civil Disobedience
Who is Henry David Thoreau?
300
The slave trade was abolished here in the Compromise of 1850
What is Washington D.C.?
300
Whig candidate for president in the 1848 election?
Who is Zachary Taylor?
300
Elected president of the Confederate States of America
Who is Jefferson Davis?
300
Supreme Court justice for the Dred Scott decision
Who is Roger B. Taney?
300
Amount the United States paid for the Gadsden Purchase
What is $10 million?
400
He proposed the Kansas-Nebraska Act
Who is Stephen Douglas?
400
Democrat candidate for the election of 1852
Who is Franklin Pierce?
400
Proposed a compromise amendment to the Constitution guaranteeing slavery would remain where it existed
Who is James Crittenden?
400
Complete the following Lincoln quote: "A house . . ."
What is "A house divided against itself cannot stand"?
400
Year of the birth of the Republican Party
What is 1854?
500
Pro-slavery constitution initially adopted by Kansas
What is the LeCompton Constitution?
500
Republican candidate for president in 1856
Who is John C. Fremont?
500
Southern Democrat candidate for president in the 1860 election
Who is John Breckinridge?
500
Town burned by slave supporters over disputed vote for slavery in Kansas
What is Lawrence, KS?
500
American Party candidate for president in 1856
Who is Millard Fillmore?
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