People
Compromise
Geography
The North vs. The South
100

President of the United States during the war.

Who was Abraham Lincoln?

100

The state added as a free state to balance out the slave state of Missouri.

What is Maine?

100

The capital city of the Union.

What is Washington, DC?

100
The location of the first shots fired in the war.

What is Fort Sumpter, SC?

200

A man who sued for his freedom in the Supreme Court.

Who was Dred Scott?

200

The free state added in the Compromise of 1850.

What is California?

200

The first state to secede.

What is South Carolina?

200

The amendment used by the South to claim their right to secede.

What is the 10th amendment?

300

A man who led a raid on Harper's Ferry, Virginia.

Who was John Brown?

300

A law that spread the principle of popular sovereignty to two additional territories.

What is the Kansas-Nebraska Act?

300

The capital city of the Confederacy.

What is Richmond, VA?

300

The political party formed by Free-Soilers, Whigs, and northern Democrats.

Who are the Republicans?

400

President of the Confederacy during the war.

Who was Jefferson Davis?

400

The leader who organized many compromise laws.

Who was Henry Clay?
400

A state that was formed as the result of the secession of the Confederacy.

What is West Virginia?

500

Author of Uncle Tom's Cabin.

Who was Harriet Beecher Stowe?

500

A widely-disobeyed law included in the Compromise of 1850.

What is the Fugitive Slave Act?

500

A slave state that remained part of the Union.

What is Missouri, Kentucky, West Virginia, Maryland, or Delaware?