What southern congressmen was the most outspoken against attempts to change the southern way of life?
Who is JOHN C CALHOUN
100
What Supreme Court Chief Justice ruled on the Dred Scott case?
Who is ROGER B. TAWNEY
100
President Lincoln's decision on what to do about the situation at what Southern stronghold in the first weeks of his administration can best be characterized as a middle of the road solution?
What is FORT SUMTER
100
12th U.S. President
Who is ZACHARY TAYLOR
200
What current U.S. state did President James K. Polk first try to purchase from Mexico, but later went to war to gain?
What is CALIFORNIA
200
What political party in 1848 harbored many northerners who stood squarely against slavery in the territories?
What is the Free Soil party
200
Who wrote "Uncle Tom's Cabin"?
Who is Harriet B. Stowe
200
The North's greatest strength in the Civil War was its
What is the economy
200
13th U.S. President
Who is MILLARD FILLMORE
300
Relations between _____________ and the United States in the nineteenth century could be characterized as generally tense, with periods of both violence and peaceful resolution.
What is Britain
300
Who wrote the Seventh of March speech?
Who is Daniel Webster
300
President James Buchanan's decision on Kansas's ___________ Constitution hopelessly divided the Democratic party.
What is Lecompton
300
What was the name given to the states that Lincoln worked to keep in the union through legally dubious methods?
What is the BORDER STATES
300
14th U.S. President
Who is FRANKLIN PIERCE
400
A small-scale clash between lumberjacks in Maine and Canada was known as the:
What is The Aroostook War
400
What part of the Compromise of 1850 was the most alarming to Northerners?
What is the FUGITIVE SLAVE LAW
400
The clash between what TWO congressmen revealed passions over slavery were becoming dangerously inflamed in both North and South?
Who is Preston S. Brooks and Charles Sumner
400
During the Civil War, most of the Five Civilized Tribes in the Indian Territory supported the Confederacy & were all based in what present day state?
What is OKLAHOMA
400
15th U.S. President
Who is JAMES BUCHANAN
500
During what "Panic" did several states defaulted on their debts to Britain?
What is the PANIC OF 1837.
500
Stephen A. Douglas proposed that the question of slavery in the territory of what TWO future states should be decided by
popular sovereignty?
What is KANSAS-NEBRASKA TERRITORY
500
Who wrote "The Impending Crisis of the South", which argued that those who suffered most from slave labor were nonslaveholding southern whites.
Who is Hinton R. Helper
500
What act lured 300,000 people to migrate West during the Civil War?