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100
This "little woman who wrote the book that made this great war", was an anti-slavery fiction writer whose impressionable characterization of Uncle Tom fueled the Boys in the Blue of the Civil War.
Who is Harriet Beecher Stowe?
100
This man wrote several articles establishing the constitutionality of the Fugitive Slave Laws, and proposed a compromise suggesting that 36˚ 30' line be restored and continued to California, that slave-trade be returned in D.C., and that slaveholders be reimbursed for fugitive slaves.
Who is John Crittenden?
100
This term refers to the violent civil war between pro- and antislavery voters in the state of Kansas which featured voting fraud committed by "border ruffians" from Missouri.
What is Bleeding-Kansas?
100
This legislation formed the states of Kansas and Nebraska, who could each vote on slavery by popular sovereignty. It was famous for violating the Missouri Compromise in allowing slavery north of 36˚ 30'.
What is the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
100
This event occurred when the deeply divided Democrat Party met in South Carolina to pick presidential candidates, and ended up dissolving without making a decision.
What is the Democratic National Convention of 1860?
200
Though he helped pass the Kansas-Nebraska Act as well as the Compromise of 1850 and developed the concept of popular sovereignty, this man was a staunch supporter of the Union.
Who is Stephen Douglas?
200
Though his Tennessean candidate in the 1860 elections was a major slave-owner, he voted against Kansas-Nebraska Act and was known for being in the moderate region of the political spectrum.
Who is John Bell?
200
This incident occurred in 1836 as tension in Kansas heightened, when a mob of pro-slavery raiders burned down a portion of the town of Lawrence.
What is the Sacking of Lawrence?
200
During a debate with Lincoln, Stephen Douglas established this platform that despite the Dred Scott vs Sanford ruling in the Supreme Court, local popular sovereignty elections could refuse slavery.
What is the Freeport Doctrine?
200
This republic was formed by eleven Southern states participating in the Secessionist Exodus and striving to secure states' rights to slavery.
What are the Confederate States of America?
300
Convinced that he was an instrument of God in fighting slavery, this man perpetrated the Pottawatomie Creek massacre as well as raided the federal armory at Harper's Ferry, ending in his subsequent hanging.
Who is John Brown?
300
This stern-jawed, Kentucky-born Vice President presided over a convention in Baltimore with the platform of extending slavery into the territories and annexing Cuba, after the Democratic National Convention failed. He would go on to become a Democratic candidate in the 1860 elections.
Who is John Breckinridge?
300
Five pro-slavery settlers were murdered by John Brown and his cohorts in this tragic incident.
What is the massacre at Pottawatomie Creek?
300
This legislation admitted California as a state, permitted popular sovereignty in the western territories, abolished slave trade in D.C., and created tougher fugitive slave laws.
What is the Compromise of 1850?
300
This party was able to win both 1860 and 1840 elections due to their ability to remain unified and thusly capture the heavily populated lower Northern States.
What is the Republican Party?
400
This preacher was famous for distributing "ballistic" bibles as threats against those trying to skew the Kansas popular sovereignty votes in favor of slavery.
Who is Henry Ward Beecher?
400
This president of the Confederate States of America withdrew from the Senate after his home-state of Mississippi seceded from the Union.
Who is Jefferson Davis?
400
John Brown and 20 other men raided this armory in the hopes of gathering guns to lead an uprising against slave-owners.
What is Harper's Ferry?
400
This crafty document was created by pro-slavery forces so that even if people in Kansas voted against slavery, there were loopholes protecting slave-owners.
What is the Lecompton Constitution?
400
This heated election between vehement abolitionists and moderate supporters of popular sovereignty resulted in the presidency of James Buchanan.
What is the Election of 1856?
500
This man was savagely beaten for mocking a disabled peer in his famous speech to Congress, "The Crime Against Kansas".
Who is Charles Sumner?
500
This South Carolina congressman took violent vengeance into his own hands when he savagely beat a fellow congressman with a wooden cane for calling pro-slavery men "hirelings picked from the drunken spew and vomit of an uneasy civilization".
Who is Preston Brooks?
500
This series of debates occurred during the 1858 Illinois senatorial campaign. They focused on the question of whether or not to extend slavery into the western territories.
What are the Lincoln-Douglas Debates?
500
This court case ruled that black slaves were technically not citizens and therefore could not sue for freedom in a federal court.
What is Dred Scott vs Sanford?
500
This four-way election between Lincoln, Douglas, Breckinridge, and Bell ended in the presidency of "Awkward Abe".
What is the Election of 1860?