Vocabulary
People
Acts
Events
Extra Questions
100

A person who opposes slavery

What is an abolitionist?

100
wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin
What is Harriet Beecher Stowe
100

Allowed Missouri (MO) to enter union as slave state

What is Missouri Compromise

100

The famous battlefield where President Lincoln gave a speech

What is Gettysburg (Gettysburg Address)?

100

This was a secret network of safehouses for slaves who were escaping.

What is the underground railroad?

200
a conflict between citizens of the same country
What is civil war
200
President of the Confederate States of America
What is Jefferson Davis
200
required all citizens to return runaway slaves or be fined/imprisoned
What is Fugitive Slave Act
200
Name the debate: these 2 candidates debated 7 times over slavery
What is Lincoln-Douglas debate
200
The names of two sides that were fighting in Civil War

What are Union (North) and Confederates (South)?

300
allowing people to decide
What is popular sovereignty
300

The general of the Confederate Army

Who is Robert E. Lee?

300

Allowed Kansas and Nebraska to use Popular Sovereignty and undid the Missouri Compromise

What is Kansas-Nebraska Act

300

Name the attack: U.S. fort in Charleston Harbor was attacked by southern Confederates It was the beginning of the Civil War

What is Fort Sumter

300

Someone who is running away from the law

What is fugitive

400
states leaving the Union
What is secession?
400

The slave who tried to gain freedom while visiting a free state.  *double jeopardy if you can name where he was from, where he went, and whether he won the case*

Who is Dred Scott?

400
*California admitted as free state (upset South) *Utah & New Mexico follow popular sovereignty *slave trade abolished in D.C. *pass Fugitive Slave Law (upset North)
What is Compromise 1850
400
Name the court case: *Dred Scott, a slave, sued for his freedom *supreme Court ruled Scott was still a slave and property *Constitution still protected slavery
What is Dred Scott Case
400

an abolitionist that led a raid on Harper's Ferry

Who is John Brown

500
group of people crossing state border to cast votes in another state
What is border ruffians
500
proposed five main points known as the Compromise of 1850
What is Henry Clay
500
name the state "Bleeding_________"
What is Kansas
500
name the first state to secede from the Union
What is South Carolina
500

first Republican president of the United States elected in 1860

Who is Abraham Lincoln

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