History
This man was elected President of the Confederate States
Who was Jefferson Davis?
The idea that if any one man would choose to enslave another, no third man shall be allowed to object had one of these two names, one good and one bad
(600 for naming both)
What is squatter sovereignty, and sacred right of self-government?
The presidents before and after Abraham Lincoln
Who were James Buchanan, and Andrew Johnson?
The year in which Abraham Lincoln was born
What is 1809?
Abraham Lincoln served in the militia of this war in 1832
What was The Black Hawk War?
The Dred Scott decision that ruled that having lived in a free state and territory did not entitle an enslaved person to his freedom, was so named because of this
What is the slave who was ruled against was named Dred Scott?
The 11th U.S. President
Who was James K. Polk?
The year the Black Hawk War ensued
What is 1832?
This act officially initiated the Civil War
What is firing on Fort Sumter?
The man who some people said would be the best to meet and overthrow the power of the "dynasty"
Who was Judge/Senator Douglas?
Three of the five presidents in history who did not have a vice president
Who were John Tyler, Millard Fillmore, Andrew Johnson, and Chester A. Arthur?
The year Abraham Lincoln was elected to be president
What is 1860?
Lincoln's debates with this man earned him a reputation as a powerful orator, even after he lost his run for Senate in 1858
Who was Stephen Douglas?
Two of the three points which Abraham Lincoln named of the Dred Scott decision
What are 1) Blacks cannot be full citizens 2) Neither Congress nor a Territorial Legislature can exclude slavery from any United States territory 3) The court of the State in which the master and slave reside would decide whether the slave was free if they lived in a free state?
The 22nd and 24th presidents of the U.S.
Who was Grover Cleveland?
South Carolina seceded from the Union in January of this year
What is 1861?
The Emancipation Proclamation, while not having the power to physically free slaves, permitted former slaves to do this for their own freedom
What is to serve in the army?
Abraham Lincoln partly asserts in A House Divided that the events of the past few years were part of this (not a word he says, but one that he implies)
What is a conspiracy?
The last Whig president
Who was Millard Fillmore?
The year Lincoln gave his Gettysburg Address, and the year he presented the Emancipation Proclamation
What is 1863?