The Civil War and the Meaning of Liberty
This war, fought from 1861 to 1865, resulted in the highest number of American deaths of any U.S. conflict.
What is the Civil War?
As part of the compromise in 1820, this state was admitted to the Union as a slave state while Maine entered as a free state, maintaining the balance between slave and free states.
What is the Missouri?
This 1850s conflict in a Midwestern territory involved violent clashes between pro-slavery and anti-slavery settlers, earning it this nickname.
What is Bleeding Kansas?
Bouma was born in this state.
What is Montana?
In an 1864 speech, this president explored the question of whose liberty should matter in the United States.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
In 1845, this former Mexican territory joined the United States as a slave state, intensifying tensions over the balance between free and slave states.
What is Texas?
In 1856, Massachusetts Senator Charles Sumner criticized slavery, and South Carolina Congressman Preston Brooks did this to him on the Senate floor.
What is physically assaulted him with a cane?
Bouma went to college at this University.
What is the University of Wyoming?
The central issue that divided Americans and sparked the Civil War, involving race, labor, and the economy.
What is slavery?
Before becoming president, Abraham Lincoln studied and practiced this profession.
What is a lawyer?
Published in 1852, this novel by Harriet Beecher Stowe exposed the harsh realities of slavery and fueled anti-slavery sentiment in the North.
What is Uncle Tom’s Cabin?
This is the name of Bouma's baby.
Who is Anthony?
The Civil War resulted in this many casualties.
What is 620,000 to 750,000?
Abraham Lincoln was born in this U.S. state.
What is Kentucky?
At the start of the Civil War in 1861, there were this many enslaved African-Americans (about 13% of the U.S. population).
What is 4 million?
Name every state that Bouma has lived in as a resident.
What are Montana, Wyoming, Connecticut, and California?
From 1820 - 1861, these 12 states were added to the Union.
What are:
Maine, Missouri, Arkansas, Michigan, Florida, Texas, Iowa, Wisconsin, California, Minnesota, Oregon, and Kansas?
Part of the Compromise of 1850, this law required citizens to help return escaped enslaved people to their owners and imposed penalties on those who aided fugitives.
What is the Fugitive Slave Act?
This radical abolitionist led violent attacks against pro-slavery settlers in the midwest and later raided the federal armory at Harpers Ferry in 1859.
Who is John Brown?
Along with his Master's and Bachelor's in History, Bouma holds degree Minors in these two areas of study.
What is Gender & Women's Studies and Computer Science?