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Fun Facts of Old Abe
100
This man lost the race for senator of Illinois in 1858, but won the 1860 election for President.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
100
This previous a agreement caused dispute in the North with the Kansas-Nebraska Act.
What is The Missouri Compromise?
100
This man sued for his freedom against his owner Sanford.
Who is Dred Scott?
100
This state was created to keep the balance between free states and slave states. This state was a former territory of Massachusetts.
What is Maine?
100
This was the year Lincoln became president.
When is 1860?
200
This man sued for his freedom and that of his family. Claiming that he was kept a slave in illegal territory.
Who is Dred Scott?
200
This state was the most controversial in the west when applying for statehood.
What is California?
200
She helped free slaves and and used the North star to navigate.
Who is Harriet Tubman?
200
This state above the Missouri Compromise line was made up for grabs. There were two established capitals by the abolitionists and the pro-slaves.
What is Kansas?
200
This is the year Abraham Lincoln was born.
When is 1809?
300
This woman wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin, a book that talked down about slavery and the effects it has on this country.
Who is Harriet Beecher Stowe?
300
These people came to Kansas from Missouri by crossing the border. They did this to increase the pro-slavery population of Kansas.
Who were the Border Ruffians?
300
He recruited 2,500 African-Americans to help guard the city of Philadelphia against attacks when threatened by the British.
Who is James Forten?
300
This territory was made open to both pro-slaves and abolitionists, but easily became free.
What is Nebraska?
300
This is the month and day Abraham Lincoln was born.
When is February 12?
400
This man became a martyr by being hanged, in response for being an abolitionist during the events in Kansas.
Who is John Brown?
400
This speech resulted the intense physical beating of Senator Sumner by Representative Preston Brooks. See Image 1
What is Crime Against Kansas?
400
This man wrote autobiographies about his slave experience after being freed. These documents became instrumental to the abolitionist movement.
Who is Frederick Douglass?
400
This state was not originally admitted to the United States by Andrew Jackson, because it would cause an imbalance between free and slave states.
What is Texas?
400
Lincoln was this tall fully grown.
What is 6'4?
500
This man found the first pieces of gold in California, beginning the gold rush that would later make California a highly populated state.
Who is James W. Marshall?
500
These two capitals were crated by anti-slavery supporters and slavery supporters to try to claim Kansas.
What is LeCompton and Lawrence?
500
This man is famous for being the first African-American to return African-Americans to Africa.
Who is Paul Cuffe?
500
This is the amount of states that left the Union to form the Confederate States of America when Lincoln became president?
What are 7 states
500
This was the year Lincoln had supported National Republican candidate Henry Clay in the presidential election?
When is 1832?
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