Abraham Lincoln
Compromise
Dividing the North and South
Random Trivia
Random Trivia
100

Lincoln was the first ever U.S. president to have this facial feature while in office.

What is a beard?

100

The Kansas-Nebraska Act dealt with these two territories.

What are Kansas and Nebraska?

100

Dred Scott went to court in an attempt to gain this, which the Supreme Court ultimately denied him.

What is freedom?

100
Famous scientist known for the formula E=mc2.

Who is Albert Einstein?

100

This golfer won the Masters Tournament 14 years apart, earning titles in both 2005 and 2019.

Who is Tiger Woods?

200

Lincoln's political party before he was a Republican.

What is the Whig Party?

200

Allowed the people living in a territory to vote on whether to allow slavery or not.

What is popular sovereignty?

200

Antebellum is Latin for this phrase.

What is "before the war"?

200

This ocean is the largest ocean in the world.

What is the Pacific Ocean?

200

The only planet in our solar system not named after a Greek/Roman god.

What is Earth?

300

Lincoln's home state.

What is Illinois?

300

The Compromise of 1850 contained this controversial law that required Northerners to cooperate with Southerners attempting to retrieve escaped slaves.

What is the Fugitive Slave Law?

300

This is where John Brown raided a federal armory.

What is Harpers Ferry?

300

This animal is the largest animal in the world both today and of all animals that have ever lived.

What is the blue whale?

300

Last state added to the United States.

What is Hawaii?

400

Lincoln's opponent he publicly debated in the Illinois Senate election.

Who is Stephen A. Douglas?

400

This state was added to the U.S. as a free state as a part of the Compromise of 1850.

What is California?

400

This book written by Harriet Beecher Stowe exposed the cruelty of slavery and increased the abolitionist movement in the North.

What is Uncle Tom's Cabin?

400

The best selling album of all time.

What is Michael Jackson's "Thriller"?

400

The year star quarterback Patrick Mahomes was drafted by the Kansas City Chiefs.

What is 2017?

500

The election of Lincoln in 1860 immediately triggered this.

What is Southern Secession?

500

This document contains the earliest compromises over slavery in the United States.

What is the U.S. Constitution?

500

Early proposal to prohibit the expansion of slavery into territories acquired from Mexico.

What is the Wilmot Proviso?

500

The "D.C." in Washington D.C. stands for this.

What is District of Columbia?

500

Only president to serve more than two terms.

Who is Franklin Roosevelt?