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100

This "little woman who wrote the book that made this great war", was an anti-slavery fiction writer who wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin.

Who is Harriet Beecher Stowe?
100

Under this act, a person arrested as a runaway slave had almost no legal rights and any person who helped a slave escape, or even refused to aid slave catchers, could be jailed.

What is the Fugitive Slave Act?
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 passed in 1854 created the Kansas and Nebraska territories, who could each vote on slavery by popular sovereignty. It abolished the Missouri Compromise in allowing slavery north of latitude 36˚ 30'.
What is the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
100
The number of representatives an individual state gets in this part of Congress is based upon the population in the state, with each slave counting as 3/5 of a person.
What is the House of Representatives?
200
Though he helped pass the Kansas-Nebraska Act and developed the concept of popular sovereignty, this man was a staunch supporter of the Union. He famously debated with Abraham Lincoln about the issue of slavery when he ran for the Illinois Senate in 1858.
Who is Stephen Douglas?
200
He was the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court who delivered the Dred Scott decision. 
Who is Chief Justice Roger Taney?
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 the home of the anti-slavery government in Kansas.
What was the Raid on Lawrence, Kansas?
200
This was an agreement made by Congress in 1820 under which Missouri was admitted to the Union as a slave state and Maine was admitted as a free state.
What is the Missouri Compromise?
200
For years, there had been an unspoken agreement in Congress to keep the number of slave states and free states equal in order to maintain a balance in this part of Congress.
What is the U.S. Senate?
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 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?
300
The Civil War officially began on March 14, 1861 when Confederate forces shelled this fort in South Carolina.
What is Fort Sumter?
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 created from the remnants of the once popular Whig Party and the anti-slavery members of the Free Soil Party.
What is the Republican Party?
400
This senator from Kentucky was an important politician in the 18th and 19th centuries. In this unit, we know him as the “Great Pacificator” or “Great Compromiser” for his work on devising both the Missouri Compromise and the Compromise of 1850.
Who is Henry Clay?
400

This South Carolina congressman took violent vengeance into his own hands when he savagely beat a fellow congressman with a steel-tipped cane for calling pro-slavery men "hirelings picked from the drunken spew and vomit of an uneasy civilization".

Who is Preston Brooks?
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
The Supreme Court decision in 1857 that held that African Americans could never be citizens of the United States and that the Missouri Compromise was unconstitutional.

What is the Dred Scott decision?

400
This presidential race showed just how divided the nation had become. The Republicans were united behind Lincoln. The Democrats, however, had split between Northern and Southern factions, with Northern Democrats nominating Stephen Douglas for president and Southern Democrats supporting John C. Breckinridge of Kentucky.
What is the Election of 1860?
500
This man was savagely beaten for his harsh and shocking condemnation of Senator Andrew P. Butler in his famous speech to Congress, "The Crime Against Kansas".
Who is Charles Sumner?
500

This document was a message sent to the secretary of state by three American diplomats who were meeting in Ostend, Belgium. The message from the diplomats urged the U.S. government to seize Cuba by force if Spain continued to refuse to sell the island. 

What is the Ostend Manifesto?
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 proposal was made in 1846 to prohibit slavery in the territory added to the United States as a result of the Mexican-American War. The proposal passed the House of Representatives but failed in the Senate.
What is the Wilmot Proviso?
500
A republic formed in February 1861, and initially composed of the first 7 Southern states that seceded from the United States in order to preserve slavery and states' rights.
What is the Confederate States of America (CSA)?