This senator from Massachusetts was later a president.
Who is John Quincy Adams?
100
This senator from Illinois defeated Lincoln in 1858 (when the South supported this senator) but lost to him in 1860 (when the South had rejected this senator).
Who is Stephen Douglas?
100
The South wanted this kind of economy.
What is agricultural/farming?
100
This compromise allowed Maine to become a state in 1820.
What is the Missouri Compromise?
100
This party won a presidential election for the first time.
What is the Republican Party?
200
This senator from New York was later a president.
Who is Martin Van Buren?
200
This senator from Kentucky lost four times (1824, 1832, 1836, and 1844) when he ran for president.
Who is Henry Clay?
200
The North was changing from an agricultural economy to this kind in the early 1800s.
What is an industrial economy?
200
This compromise was actually five separate laws because Clay's idea of one bill would never pass.
What is the Compromise of 1850?
200
This party split over popular sovereignty vs. defending slavery.
What is the Democratic Party?
300
This senator from Pennsylvania was later a president.
Who is James Buchanan?
300
This senator from South Carolina argued that slavery was a good thing, not just a necessary evil.
Who is John C. Calhoun?
300
This section of the country generally wanted higher tariffs.
What is the North?
300
This fifth part of the Compromise of 1850 caused Harriet Beecher Stowe to write "Uncle Tom's Cabin."
What is the Fugitive Slave Law?
300
This state was the first to secede once Abraham Lincoln was officially elected president.
What is South Carolina?
400
Senators from the North wanted more of this kind of state.
What is a Free State?
400
European Americans in the South were descended from which culture mostly?
What is British?
400
This section of the country generally wanted more government spending on roads and canals.
What is the North?
400
This crisis led to a compromise on tariffs in the early 1830s.
What is the Nullification Crisis?
400
This president did not fight against "the rebels," but also did not remove Federal army or navy forces.
Who is James Buchanan?
500
This time period was better than the present for many Northerners.
What is the Future?
500
This time period was better than the present for many Southerners.
What is the Past?
500
This group of people in the North did not want to compete with liberated slaves for industrial work.
Who are immigrants?
500
This law was a final compromise that got rid of all previous compromises and allowed locals to be "sovereign."
What is the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
500
This Kentucky senator tried to keep the South in the Union by offering an amendment guaranteeing slavery would never be outlawed federally, but because the South had seceded, the amendment was not ratified.