Lincoln-Douglas Debates
State where the Lincoln-Douglas debates were held.
What is Illinois?
Abolitionist who launched a raid to try to start a rebellion to free enslaved people.
Who is John Brown?
Year Abraham Lincoln is elected president.
What is 1860?
State where senators formed a committee to search for yet another compromise that might hold the nation together.
What is Alabama?
Date that Lincoln was inaugurated as President of the "not-so-united United States.
What is March 4, 1861?
Office - position - Lincoln was running for.
What is the Senate or Senator?
Year of John Brown's raid at Harper's Ferry.
What is 1859?
Percent of votes Lincoln won in the election?
What is 40 percent?
Law Lincoln said he would support enforcement of.
What is the Fugitive Slave Act?
Appealed to the rebellious states to return in peace.
Who is President Abraham Lincoln?
Felt that territories should decide the issue of slavery.
Who is Stephen Douglas?
Site of John Brown's 1859 raid to try to start a rebellion against slavery.
What is Harper's Ferry, Virginia?
Number of Southern states where Lincoln was not on the ballot.
What is 10?
Lincoln said there would be no compromise for this.
What is extending slavery into the territories?
Date Confederates opened fire on a federal fort in South Carolina.
What is April 12, 1861?
Felt that slavery was a moral - not legal - issue.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
Fate of John Brown after his failed raid at Harper's Ferry.
What is convicted of treason and sentenced to die?
Southern states feared Congress would abolish this after the election.
What is slavery?
State that voted to leave the Union on Dec. 20, 1860.
What is South Carolina?
What is Fort Sumter?
Winner of the 1858 election for Senator from Illinois.
Who is Stephen Douglas?
Message in the note from John Brown on the day of his hanging.
What is "the crimes of this guilty land will never be purged away but with Blood?"
State where a newspaper printed the election would mean “the loss of liberty, property, home, country—everything that makes life worth having.”
What is South Carolina?
Seven states joined together to form this on February 1861.
What are the Confederate States of America?
Paper from this state declared, “There is no more thought of bribing or coaxing the traitors who have dared to aim their cannon balls at the flag of the Union . . . Fort Sumter is temporarily lost, but the country is saved.”
What is New York?