Abraham Lincoln became President in this election.
What is the election of 1860?
100
The Court which ultimately made the decision about this famous Dred Scott case.
What is the Supreme Court?
100
This proposal sought to ban slavery in any lands acquired from Mexico.
What is the Wilmot Proviso?
100
The event which ignited the start of the Civil War.
What is the Attack of Fort Sumter?
100
This state was the first to vote to secede from the United States.
What is South Carolina?
200
These two candidates squared off for a series of national debates during the Illinois Senate race of 1858.
Who are Abraham Lincoln and Stephen Douglas?
200
The Court's ruling stated slaves were considered this.
What is "property"?
200
This Act introduced the proposal that territories should be allowed to vote whether to allow slavery.
What is the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
200
After the elections of 1858, this abolitionist led an attack on the federal arsenal in Virginia.
Who is John Brown?
200
This man authored "Civil Disobedience" which advised breaking unjust laws.
Who is Henry David Thoreau?
300
In the 1854 congressional elections, this new party was formed from former Whigs, Democrats and Free Soilers.
What is the Republican Party?
300
This section of the country favored the Court's decision.
What is "the South"?
300
This term used to describe allowing territories to vote whether to allow slavery.
What is "Popular Sovereignty"
300
In 1856, John Brown led an attack killing 5 supporters of slavery in Kansas. Newspapers referred to this as by this name.
What is "Bleeding Kansas"?
300
This man won the 1848 Presidential election despite not taking a position on slavery.
Who is Zachary Taylor?
400
In the 1848 elections, this new party was formed with the slogan, "Free Soil, Free Speech, Free Labor and Free Men."
What is the Free Soil Party?
400
The Court stated that Congress could not ban slavery because this document protected slavery.
What is the Constitution?
400
This was a main component of the Compromise of 1850 which imposed punishment on anyone helping a slave to flee to the north.
What is the Fugitive Slave Act?
400
The name of the arsenal attacked by John Brown in 1859.
What is "Harper's Ferry"?
400
The name for the network of helpers to assist slaves fleeing to free states.
What is the Underground Railroad?
500
This Democratic candidate won the hotly contested Presidential election of 1856.
Who is James Buchanan?
500
The name of the Supreme Court Chief Justice who wrote the Court's opinion.
Who is Roger B Taney?
500
Stephen Douglas restructured this man's proposals on slavery into the Compromise of 1850.
Who is Henry Clay?
500
In 1861, the Confederate States of America was established with this man as their president.
Who is Jefferson Davis?
500
During the debates of 1858, Douglas commented that voters could exclude slavery by refusing to pass laws protecting slaveholders' rights. These perspective became known as this.