Grade "A"
Decisions, Decisions
Peeps. Not the Marshmallow Kind.
Most Likely to Secede
(Insert Witty Title Here)
100
This man won the Election of 1860
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
100
This Supreme Court Decision ruled that slaves were not citizens, but property, and NEVER could be citizens.
What is the Dred Scott Decision?
100
This man led an assault on Harper's Ferry.
Who is John Brown?
100
DAILY DOUBLE
Name one reason that non-slaveowners voted in favor of slavery?
100
Lincoln and Douglas debated in the Senatorial race of which state?
What is Illinois?
200
This group of people tried to end slavery and favored the Republican Party
What is Abolitionists?
200
Abraham Lincoln faced a tough decision of whether or not to try to resupply this Fort.
What is Fort Sumter?
200
This man became the first president of the Confederate States of America.
Who is Jefferson Davis?
200
The Crittenden Compromise tried to stop secession by creating this, which would officially protect slavery.
What is a Constitutional Amendment?
200
This state split its vote in the 1860 election.
Who is Stephen Douglas?
300
Also known as the "Know Nothings," this party was hotly anti-immigration and nominated Fillmore in 1856.
What is the American Party?
300
Stephen A. Douglas had to make a final decision on this idea, after being trapped by Lincoln.
What is Popular Sovereignty?
300
This man was the Supreme Court Justice for the Dred Scott vs. Sanford case. What a dingus.
Who is Roger Taney?
300
This state was divided over secession, and then literally divided.
What is Virginia?
300
This forefather was the first to bring up the idea of secession when John Adams passed the Alien and Sedition Acts.
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
400
Abraham Lincoln stated that the Union must be either fully in favor or against slavery, or it would cease to stand in this famous speech.
What is "A House Divided"
400
This state was the first to make a decision to secede from the Union.
What is South Carolina?
400
This man was elected President in 1856, but really did not do much of anything.
Who is James Buchanan?
400
This future General was the man who commanded the retaking of Harper's Ferry in Virginia.
Who is Robert E. Lee?
400
At Harper's Ferry, a radical abolitionist becomes this, strengthening the Northern cause, and causing a panic in the South.
What is a martyr?
500
Harper's Ferry was a federal base that held weapons, called this.
What is an arsenal?
500
Southern Voters faced the decision of, if the Republican candidate won, whether or not to support this practice.
What is secession?
500
This man ran with the Constitutional Party, hoping to glue the Union back together.
Who is John Bell?
500
This presidential candidate in 1860 was strongly Pro-Slavery.
Who is John C. Breckinridge?
500
Lincoln argued that African Americans should not be slaves, but....
What is they were still not equal?
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