This man won 40% of the popular vote, 60% of the electoral vote, and won the Election of 1860.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
100
People who want to abolish slavery
Who are ablitionist
100
The first state to secede from the Union after the Election of Abraham Lincoln in 1860. Seceded in December of 1860.
What is South Carolina?
100
Harriet Beecher Stowe wrote this book in 1852. It shocked the North and made Southerners angry because they viewed it as misleading propaganda.
What is Uncle Tom's Cabin?
100
This man led 7 men int Pottawatamie Creek, Kansas and murdered 5 men and boys at a proslavery camp.
Who is John Brown?
200
This Northern Democratic candidate for president was a major proponent of the concept of Popular Sovereignty. The candidate and Abraham Lincoln are from the same state.
Who is Stephen Douglas?
200
This entire area of the United States was against the idea of slavery.
What is the North?
200
Name 4 out of the 6 Southern States that followed South Carolina in seceding from the Union.
What is Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, and Texas?
200
Henry Clay wrote the Missouri Compromise. He also wrote this compromise; which made California a state and included the Fugitive Slave Act.
What is the Compromise of 1850?
200
Preston Brooks beat Charles Sumner in the United States Senate with what type weapon. Brooks was upset over an antislavery speech that Sumner had made in connection with the violence in Kansas.
What is a cane?
300
This candidate, from the Constitutional Union Party, only won 3 states during the Election of 1860: Virginia, Kentucky, & Tennessee
Who is John Bell?
300
This book shocked Northern's by telling stories of slaves in the South.
What is Uncle Tom's Cabin?
300
This was the name of the new nation formed by the Southern States
What is the Confederate States of America?
300
Chief Justice Roger B. Taney gave this Supreme Court decision that ruled that African Americans were not citizens of the United States and that the Missouri Compromise was unconstitutional.
What is Dred Scott v Sanford (or the Dred Scott Decision)
300
John brown wanted to arm slaves with his raid on this federal arsenal.
What is Harpers Ferry, Virginia?
400
The Southern Democratic candidate for president was this man. He won nearly all of the states in the Southern US.
Who is John Breckinridge?
400
The daughter of an abolitionist preacher. This woman wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin and was jokingly blamed for starting the Civil War by President Abraham Lincoln.
Who is Harriet Beecher Stowe?
400
The Confederate States of America named this man as their president.
Who is Jefferson Davis?
400
Illinois Senator Stephen Douglas gained Southern support for this act by proposing the idea of Popular Sovereignty in the new Kansas & Nebraska Territories.
What is the Kansas-Nebraska Act (of 1854)?
400
As part of the Compromise of 1850, this law required Northerners to arrest and return runaway slaves. The law also continued to allow Southerners to travel north and take runaway slaves back to their plantations.
What is the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850?
500
The Southern states took this action after Abraham Lincoln won the Election of 1860
What is Southern Secession?
500
Daily Double: He was lawyer from Illinois who held many debates against Stephen Douglas. Douglas was for the idea of Popular Sovereignty while this man was completely against slavery.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
500
In his inaugural address, President Lincoln assured the southern people that he had no intention to end slavery. His most import goal was to save this.
What is the Union?
500
South Carolina authorities decided to attack this island before President Lincoln could send food and supplies to the starving men inside.
What is Fort Sumter?
500
This was the first fight of the US Civil War. President Lincoln wanted to send supplies to his starving men but South Carolina authorities attacked before they got their.