Slavery
Politics
Presidents
People
Dates
100

The party of the 1840s that objected to slavery's impact on free white workers.

Free Soil Party

100

The admission of this state to the union upset the balance of power in Washington.

California

100

He was president when SC seceded from the Union.

James Buchanan

100

He debated Abraham Lincoln in 1858 and supported Popular Sovereignty.

Stephen Douglas

100

The year the Civil War began

1861

200

The political view that the people could decide whether a territory would be slave or free.

Popular Sovereignty

200

He proposed the Compromise of 1850 to avoid civil war.

Henry Clay

200

The election of this president convinced SC to secede from the Union.

Abraham Lincoln

200

He was the first commander of the Union Army

George B. McClellan 

200

The year the Civil War ended.

1865

300

The most famous conductor on the Underground Railroad.

Harriet Tubman

300

The issue of Popular Sovereignty caused intense violence in this state.

Kansas

300

He was president during the Mexican War.

James K. Polk

300

He was responsible for the Potawatomie Massacre. 

John Brown

300

The year of the Kansas-Nebraska Act

1854

400

What was John Brown's aim at Harper's Ferry?

To start a slave war.

400

The American ("Know Nothing") Party focused on this issue.

Immigration

400

He became president after the assassination of Lincoln.

Andrew Johnson

400

He was the senator attacked by Preston Brooks in 1856.

Charles Sumner

400

The year of the Dred Scott decision.

1857

500

This freed all those slaves wo lived in areas that were in rebellion against the U.S.

The Emancipation Proclamation

500

When the Civil War began, what was Lincoln's primary goal?

To restore the Union.

500

He was president of the Confederacy.

Jefferson Davis

500

He was the Missouri slave that became part of a notorious SCOTUS case in 1857.

Dred Scott

500

The year of the Harper's Ferry raid.

1859

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