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He was the "Great Pacificator."
Who was Henry Clay?
This is where the Restored Government of Virginia met in the spring and summer of 1861.
Where is Wheeling?
The pending admission of this slave state caused a crisis in 1819.
What is Missouri?
This questionable policy, championed by Stephen Douglas, led to Bleeding Kansas in 1856.
What is Popular Sovereignty?
The Compromise of 1820 is better known by this geographic name.
What is the Missouri Compromise?
This South Carolina senator stomped his foot like Rumpelstiltskin until he got his way in 1820 and again in 1850.
Who was John C. Calhoun?
This is where John Brown and his followers murdered seven pro-slavery men in Kansas in 1856.
What is Pottawatomie Creek?
His election in 1860 sparked the secession of four states, starting with South Carolina.
Who was Abraham Lincoln?
The formal act of leaving a country is called this.
What is secession?
He worked with Henry Clay in 1820 and again in 1850 to forestall civil war.
Who was John C. Calhoun?
He wrote the amendment that paved the way for West Virginia statehood in 1862.
Who was Waitman T. Willey?
This is the location of the largest North American slave market, which was closed under the terms of the 1850 Compromise.
What is Washington, DC?
This event led to the calling of the Clarksburg Convention and the erection of the Restored Government of Virginia at Wheeling.
What was the Virginia Order of Secession?
This was the treaty that formally ended the Mexican-American War and ceded vast territory to the US in 1848.
What is the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo?
Under the Willey Amendment, all slaves under this age as of July 4, 1863 would be freed immediately.
What is ten?
This Virginia politician called for a convention in his hometown of Clarksburg in late April, 1861.
Who was John S. Carlile?
This is the building in which Congress meets.
What is the Capitol?
Lincoln's call for militia from the several states in this month of 1861 caused Virginia to secede just two days later.
What is April?
This was the cause of the Texan Revolution in 1836.
What was emancipation of Mexican slaves?
This constitutional compromise, aka, the Great Compromise, limited southern power by counting only 60% of slaves for apportionment in the House of Representatives.
What is the Three-fifths Compromise?
This president was the one who secured Texas for the US and sought war with Mexico.
Who was James K. Polk?
This was the location of Sutter's Mill, the first and most famous gold discovery in California history.
What is Sacramento?
According to Horace Greeley, Kansas did this under the policy of Popular Sovereignty.
What is bleed?
What is manumitting?
This final movement of the US-Mexican border, the so-called Gadsden Purchase, was completed in this year.
What is 1853?