Compromises
The Missouri Compromise was also known by this name.
What is the Compromise of 1820?
The main idea promoted in the Kansas Nebraska Act to solve the question of slavery in the territories.
What is Popular Sovereignty?
Finish the quote "Remember the ______"
Also where Davy Crockett Died.
What is the Alamo?
This man started the raid at Harper's Ferry.
Who was John Brown?
This year was Lincoln first election for President.
What is 1860?
Stephen Douglas was the primary architect of this compromise.
What was the Compromise of 1850?
The Kansas Nebraska Act split up this national political party.
What is the Democratic Party?
Why was Texas essentially denied entry to the United States?
It would have disrupted the balance in the Senate.
This was attacked at Harper's Ferry.
What is a federal armory.
This many presidential candidates won electoral votes during Lincoln's first election.
What is four?
What states were added in the Missouri Compromise?
Missouri and Maine
The President during the Kansas Nebraska Act that made it a test of his party to support the Act.
Who is Franklin Pierce?
This United States President essentially started the Mexican-American War.
Who is James K Polk?
Abolitionists were a radical wing of this political party.
What is the Republican Party?
The first state to secede from the Union seceded in this year. State and Year for points.
Daily Double
South Carolina, 1860.
What was the latitude line above which slavery was banned according to the Missouri Compromise?
36'30" Line
This was the year the Kansas Nebraska Act passed.
What is 1854?
The largest state ceded by Mexico during the Mexican American War.
What is California?
This was the goal of the Harper's Ferry raid.
What is to start a slave revolt?
This Missouri law said " _____ ______, _______ ______" and was used to argue for Dred Scott's freedom.
"Once Free, Always Free"
The five parts of the Compromise of 1850.
What is
DC slave trade banned?
Fugitive Slave Act?
California admitted as a free state?
Texas' border settled?
New Mexico and Utah Territory open to popular sovereignty?
The city in which the pro-slavery government in Kansas was founded.
What is Lecompton?
The amount of years the "Lone Star Republic" existed before joining the Union, bonus points for months.
What is 9 years, 11 months.
This man, who later became famous during the Civil War, stopped the raid at Harper's Ferry.
Who was Robert E Lee?
This Chief Justice ruled against Dred Scott's freedom and said Blacks were "of an inferior order and altogether unfit to associate with the white race, either in social or political relations, and so far inferior that they had no rights which the white man was bound to respect."
Who was Chief Justice Roger Taney?