In this event that happened at the Pottawatomie Creek, five pro-slavery men were killed, and 200 people died in the months that followed.
What is The Pottawatomie Massacre
100
This man was the slave of an army surgeon from St. Louis, Missouri.
Who is Dred Scott
100
These two people ran as democrats in the election.
Who are John C. Breckinridge and Stephen Douglas
100
This man led a group in raiding Harpers Ferry.
Who is John Brown
100
Four days after Lincoln won the election, this grouping of land held a special convention to consider withdrawing from the union.
What is the South
200
This man and his sons were the killers at the Pttawatomie Massacre.
Who is John Brown
200
This Illinois lawyer warned about the Supreme Court's future rulings in cases involving slavery after the Dred Scott case was decided.
Who is Abraham Lincoln
200
This party was newly formed before the election by former Whigs, and had John Bell run in the election.
What is the Constitutional Union Party
200
This building was near where there was gunfire and John Brown was captured.
What is the firehouse
200
The act of formally withdrawing from the union is called this.
What is secession
300
John Brown had this position on slavery.
What is anti-slavery
300
The Supreme Court used this amendment as support in the Dred Scott Decision, saying that slaves were property, and peoples property couldn't be taken away even in other states.
What is the 5th Amendment
300
The Constitutional Union Party was about sticking to the laws and ways of this important document.
What is The Constitution
300
This person captured John Brown and his cohorts.
Who is Colonel Robert E. Lee
300
John Crittenden proposed a series of this that would please the South to keep them from secession
What are Constitutional Amendments
400
The punishment for anyone caught helping a fugitive slave in Kansas was this.
What is death
400
Roger B. Taney, the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, also decided Dred Scott did not have the right to do this thing, because he was a slave, in addition to the main decision.
What is filing suit in federal court
400
Abraham Lincoln was the first person to run for this party.
What is The Republican Party
400
John Brown was going to give the stolen weapons to this group of people.
What is the slaves in Harpers Ferry
400
This was the first southern state to secede from the union.
What is South Carolina
500
Preston Brooks beat Charles Sumner unconscious with this implement.
What is a walking stick
500
Dred Scott said that he was a free man because of this reason.
What is he went to Illinois, which was free land
500
This person won the election of 1860, and claimed to not try to abolish slavery or take away rights from the south.
Who is Abraham Lincoln
500
This was Brown's punishment for his actions in Harpers Ferry and the Pottawatomie Massacre.
What is he was hanged
500
One of John Crittenden's ideas was to extend the line allowing slavery only in a certain area created by this compromise.