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Events Leading to the Civil War
Strikes against the Union
Politics in the 1800s
Potpourri
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The Great Compromiser....
Who is Henry Clay?
100
To help balance the issue of slavery in 1854, Stephen Douglas split the Kansas territory into free Nebraska and Kansas, a state that would choose slavery or not. This compromise had a name.
What is the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
100
In 1850s, this great voice of secession passed away from complications resulting from tuberculosis.
Who is John C. Calhoun?
100
This political party was dead by 1860.
What are the Whigs?
100
First capital of the Confederacy.
What is Montgomery, Al?
200
This African-American woman led hundreds of slaves to freedom using the Underground Railroad.
Who is Harriett Tubman?
200
The Wilmot Proviso promoted this theory to solve the problem of the spread of slavery.
What is free soil?
200
A term describing the many skirmishes in Kansas during the 1850s between pro-slave militias and anti-slave militias.
What is "Bleeding Kansas"?
200
This political party stood for fear of foreigners.
What are the Know-Nothings?
200
This act in the Compromise of 1850 may have sweetened the deal for Southerners, but many Northerners disliked the provision. It would cause free blacks in the North to become slaves.
What is the Fugitive Slave Act?
300
Leader of the raids at Pottawamie Creek and Harper's Ferry.
Who is John Brown?
300
Harriett Beecher Stowe wrote this famous novel about the evils of slavery, intensifying feelings in both the North and the South.
What is Uncle Tom's Cabin?
300
This court case strengthened the power of slave-holding states by declaring the Missouri Compromise unconstitutional.
What is Scott v. Sanford?
300
Horace Greeley started this political party in Jackson, MI, in response to the Kansas-Nebraska Act.
What is the Republican Party?
300
Virginia, Missouri, Maryland, and Kentucky were all examples of this, states the Union could not afford to lose if they were to fight the South.
What are border states?
400
The Little Giant...
Who is Stephen Douglas?
400
Stephen Douglas advocated this doctrine to balance the interests of the North and the South. It left the decision out of the hands of Washington politicians.
What is popular sovereignty?
400
This man received a caning for his unkind words towards a Southern Senator.
Who is Charles Sumner?
400
The year and the office seeking obtainment of those in the famous Lincoln-Douglas debates?
What is 1858 Senate seat from Illinois?
400
The President and the Vice-President of the Confederate States of America
Who are Jefferson Davis and Alexander H. Stephens?
500
This President from New Hampshire tried to preserve the Union by appealing to Southern interests.
Who was Franklin Pierce?
500
Name two provisions of the Compromise of 1850.
What is California becomes a free state, Utah and New Mexico territories decide about slavery, Texas-New Mexico boundary defined in return for Texas earning $10 million dollars to pay off war debt, Sale of slavery banned in the District of Columbia, But slavery may continue, The Enactment of Fugitive Slave Act
500
The first two states to secede from the Union.
What are South Carolina and Mississippi?
500
The number of major parties running presidential candidates in 1860.
What is four?
500
Name the two dueling capitals in 1850s Kansas.
What is Lecompton and Topeka?