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Author of Uncle Tom's Cabin.
Who was Harriet Beecher Stowe?
Attack in Congress that led to a Senator from Massachusetts nearly being beaten to death.
What was the Sumner-Brooks Affair?
Name four of the 5 border states.
What were Maryland, Delaware, Missouri, Kentucky, and West Virginia?
The attack on this began the Civil War.
What was Fort Sumter?
Name of the place where gold was first found in California.
What was Sutter's Mill?
Democratic winner of the Election of 1856.
Who was James Buchanan?
Event that caused the secession of South Carolina.
What was the Election of 1860?
Pro-slavery settlers of Kansas were called this.
What were the Border Ruffians?
Legalized slavery in the territories and invalidated the Missouri Compromise and parts of the Compromise of 1850.
What was the Dred Scott decision?
The dispute in Congress over this led Douglas to propose the Kansas-Nebraska Act since he thought building it would help his home state.
What was the transcontinental railroad?
Chief Justice who wrote the Dred Scott Decision.
Who was Roger Taney?
John Brown's raid on the armory at this place led to his capture, trial, and execution.
What was Harpers Ferry?
Anti-immigrant party that nominated Millard Fillmore for president in 1856.
What was the Know-Nothing (American) Party?
Defeated Lincoln in the Illinois Senate race in 1858.
Who was Stephen Douglas?
Future president who helped author the Ostend Manifesto when he was Secretary of State.
Who was James Buchanan?
Northern Democratic candidate in the Election of 1860.
Who was Stephen Douglas?
The burning of this city kicked off the events of Bleeding Kansas.
What was Lawrence?
Name of Stephen Douglas's doctrine that popular sovereignty should decide the slavery issue in the territories.
What was the Freeport Doctrine?
Pro-slavery constitution written in Kansas.
What was the Lecompton constitution?
Southern Democrat candidate in the Election of 1860.
Who was John C. Breckinridge?
First Republican candidate for president who lost the Election of 1856.
Who was John C. Fremont?
Incident where John Brown and his sons murdered five pro-slavery settlers.
What was the Pottawatomie Massacre?
Anti-slavery settlers of Kansas were known as this.
What were Jayhawkers?
Name one of the three major causes of the Panic of 1857.
What were inflation due to the Gold Rush, overproduction of grain, and overspeculation in land and railroads?
The anti-slavery constitution in Kansas was written in this town.
What was Topeka?