1850-1860
This is the main figure responsible for the deaths during Bleeding Kansas. He had a zealous opposition to slavery, which caused him to use violence to achieve its end.
Who is John Brown?
This is the act of territory residents voting to choose whether their state is slave or free.
What is popular sovereignty?
This is the foreign policy that required Europe to stay out of the Western Hemisphere's politics and war.
What is the Monroe Doctrine?
This is the strategy that Unionists used to "squeeze" the Confederates into surrendering.
What is the Anaconda Plan?
BONUS (100pts): Explain how the Union would encircle the Confederates via the Gulf of America.
This Amendment to the Constitution bans slavery.
What is the 13th Amendment?
This was the judicial argument that the framers of the Constitution did not believe white and black people were equal when writing "all men are created equal."
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What is "Original Intent?"
This is the legislation that allowed Southerners to hunt down and capture their escaped slaves in free Northern states.
What is the Fugitive Slave Act?
BONUS (100 pts): What was an organized response to the Fugitive Slave Act?
This is the agreement that put together the bicameral legislature (Senate & House of Reps) that we still have today.
What is the Great Compromise?
This is the most notable battle of the Civil War, that was also the northernmost.
What is Gettysburg?
This is the requirement for the government to give you a list of charges and set a trial if you are arrested.
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What is habeas corpus?
This political party was created to directly oppose Andrew Jackson.
What is the Whig Party?
This is the Supreme Court case that designated all states cannot deprive slave owners of their property, effectively making slavery legal in formerly free states.
What is Dred Scott v. Sandford?
This is the British order that limited the settlement of American colonists to be before a preset border, leaving the rest of the land to the Indians instead of allowing Westward expansion.
This was the campaign in the South that caused lots of destruction from Atlanta to Savannah, Georgia.
What is Sherman's March to the Sea?
What is the Gettysburg Address?
This political party was created after the Whigs were destroyed, and focused on stopping the expansion of slavery into new territories.
What is the Republican Party/GOP?
BONUS (100pts): What does GOP stand for?
This is the Act that replaced the Missouri Compromise and introduced popular sovereignty into the territories as they become states.
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What is the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
This was the crisis of states that would cancel laws passed by the Federal government.
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What is the Nullification Crisis?
This was the battle with the bloodiest single day in Civil War history.
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What is Antietam?
These four border states still had legal slavery, but were exempt from the Emancipation Proclamation.
What are Kentucky, Missouri, Maryland, and Delaware?
This was the reason why Bleeding Kansas happened.
What are disagreements over legality/illegality of slavery?
BONUS (100pts): Who were the people responsible for advocating legal slavery in Kansas?
This was the initial purpose that the Confederates seceded from the Union.
What are "states rights?"
These laws required the American colonies to only trade with Britain, restricting their economic exports and angering the settlers.
What are the Navigation Acts?
This was the final battle of the Civil War that ended in Robert E. Lee's surrender.
What is Appomattox Courthouse?
This legislation gave strict penalties to the Confederates to re-enter the Union, but was vetoed by Lincoln.
What is the Wade-Davis Bill?
BONUS (200 pts): What percentage of people had to swear an oath to the Union?