Lincoln was part of the ______ political party during the presidential election of 1860.
What is Republican?
100
The person who won the Presidential Election of 1856, and the party they were from.
What is James Buchanan (Democrat)?
100
The winner of the election of 1860 was…
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
100
The main reason for fighting in the North and South.
What is voting?
200
The man who unsuccessfully sued for him and his family's freedom, after their sole owner died.
Who is Dred Scott?
200
Based on the reading, Lincoln’s view on slavery during the Lincoln - Douglas debate was...
Slavery as a question of right and wrong and Douglas believed in the wrong moral beliefs?
200
The winner of the 1852 Presidential election, and the party they were from.
What is Franklin Pierce (Democrat)
200
During the election of 1852 which political party had nation appeal due to their inconsistent views about slavery. This party had no statement in their campaign regarding slavery.
What is the Democratic Party?
200
The pro-slavery Missourians were called...
What is Border Ruffians?
300
This person slaughtered slaveholders. Attempted to steal weapons but was caught and hung.
What is John Brown?
300
Lincoln’s republican platform for state legislature, began with what speech and its general message about the union was…
What is the House Divided Speech that expressed the message: the union should not be half free and half slave?
300
In the 1850’s, these were the two main parties.
What is Democrats & Whigs?
300
Due to the Kansas - Nebraska Act, ____ political party was losing national appeal during the 1856 Presidential Election.
What is the Democratic Party?
300
One of the main causes for people moving to Kansas.
What is - To try and sway whether it was a free or slave state by voting?
400
The person who “started the Civil War”.
What is Harriet Beecher Stowe?
400
During Lincoln’s first time running for the Illinois state legislature what war occurred causing him to enlist and after the election he ranked ____ in the county (2 Parts)
What is Black Hawk War and “8 out of 13”?
400
The year that the Republican party was created.
What is 1860?
400
James Buchanan received most of his electoral votes in the 1856 Presidential election from this region of the United States____.
What is the South?
400
Sumner’s speech called that caused him to be beaten with a cane.
What is “The Crime Against Kansas”?
500
The person who believed that “a negro is not and never ought to be a citizen of the United States."
What is Stephen Douglas?
500
North Carolina seceded from the Union causing tension. The first bullet was fired by _____ at _____.
What is Fort Sumter and the Confederate States of America?
500
One of the qualities of the “Know-Nothing” Party.
What is Nativists; Anti- Catholicism; Anti- Immigrants?
500
____ received the least number of electoral votes in the 1860 Presidential election.
BONUS: 250 points
How many votes did the person receive?
Who is Stephen A. Douglas
BONUS Answer = 12 electoral votes
500
Kansas decided to be a free or slave state by this method.