What was the immediate effect of the results of the Election of 1860, taking place only four days later?
100
Who is Harriet Breecher Stowe
Who, according to Abraham Lincoln, is the "little lady who started this big war"?
100
What was "Bleeding Kansas".
What was the name given to Kansas during its own small civil war between northerners and southerners who hoped to use popular sovereignty to their own advantage?
100
What is South Carolina
What was the first state to secede from the Union?
100
What wwas thousands of people rushing into the state.
How did both northerners and southerners react to the popular sovereignty vote over slavery in Kansas?
200
What was the Democratic Party.
The political party of what candidate won the election of 1856?
200
Who was John Brown
Who was the radical abolitionist who was hanged after he attacked Harper's Ferry along with about twenty other men?
200
What was "Uncle Tom's Cabin".
What was the name of the book written by Harriet Breecher Stowe?
200
What was 11 states.
What was the total number of states that left the Union?
200
Who was Hinton R. Helper.
Who was the author of "The Impending Crisis of the South"?
300
What was about forty percent.
About what percentage of votes did Abraham Lincoln get during the Election of 1860?
300
Who was Dred Scott
Who was the slave who sued for his freedom after living with his master on free soil for five years?
300
What is the "Breecher Bible".
What was the nickname given to the guns that many northern abolitionists brought with them during the north-south struggle over popular sovereignty in Kansas?
300
What was seven states.
The Confederacy formed after how many states seceded from the Union?
300
What was twenty percent.
To what percent did the Tariff of 1857 lower the duty on goods?
400
What was 12 electoral votes.
How many electoral votes did Stephen Douglas win during the Election of 1860?
400
Who was Jefferson Davis.
Who was the president of the Confederacy?
400
What was "bread or death".
What was the popular slogan often used by unemployed workers who were going hungry during the Financial Crash of 1857?
400
What is the state.
According to the Freeport Doctrine, if a state votes down slavery via popular sovereignty, and the Supreme Court states that they cannot, would the state, or would the courts have the final say?
400
What were the California Gold Rush and the Crimean War
What were the two most significant and immediate causes of the Financial Crash of 1857?
500
Who was Millard Fillmore.
Who was the candidate of the American Party during the Election of 1856?
500
Who was Stephen Douglas.
Who was the Illinois senator who Abraham Lincoln ran against for the spot of senator in 1858?
500
What is the "Illinois Rail-Splitter".
What was the nickname given to Abraham Lincoln commonly used by his political enemies?
500
What were Charles Sumner's insults directed at South Carolina and its senator, Andrew Butler.
What were the reasons for Congressman Preston S. Brooks beating Senator Charles Sumner?
500
What were the Crittenden amendments.
What were the names of the (rejected) compromises that proposed giving slavery supporters full rights in southern territories, even if popular sovereignty voted against it?