Historical Figures
Who was the Republican nominee in the Election of 1860?
What is Abraham Lincoln
What was the first state to secede from the Union?
Which act stated that anyone found helping a runaway slave would be fined or imprisoned?
What is the Fugitive Slave Act
Who said, “We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection.”
What is Abraham Lincoln
Who did Fort Sumter belong to prior to the attack that started the Civil War?
What is the Union
Who won the Election of 1856?
What is James Buchanan
Where did John Brown try to capture a federal arsenal?
What is Harpers Ferry
What act or law was passed to allow California to enter the Union as a free state, but allowed slavery in other territories acquired from Mexico?
What is the Compromise of 1850
Which political party had the slogan, “Free soil, free speech, free labor, free men.”
What is the Free-Soil Party
What was the main topic of the Lincoln-Douglas debates throughout the Midwest?
What is slavery
Who was the violent abolitionist that displayed a few controversial actions as a result of his beliefs?
What is John Brown
What was the site of the first battle of the Civil War?
What is Fort Sumter
Which act allowed the people living in the territories of Kansas and Nebraska to vote on the issue of slavery?
What is the Kansas-Nebraska Act
“We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection” is a quote from what?
What is Abraham Lincoln's inauguration speech
What event marked the beginning of the Civil War within the United States?
Which senator proposed the idea of Popular Sovereignty?
What is Stephen Douglas
In what state did both pro-slavery and anti-slavery governments exist at the same time for a few years, leading to widespread violence in the 1850's?
What is Kansas
Who split the Compromise of 1850 in half to make the voting process easier?
What is Stephen Douglas
Who said, “If the law requires you to be the cause of injustice to another, then I say, break the law.”
What is Henry David Thoreau
What did local newspapers begin calling the Midwest due to all the violence over slavery?
Who said that Congress nor any territorial government could ban slavery from a territory or regulate it?
What is John C. Calhoun
In what state did Stephen Douglas and Abraham Lincoln travel throughout to deliver their Lincoln-Douglas debates?
What is Illinois
Which proposal was meant to prohibit slavery in any lands acquired from Mexico?
What is the Wilmot Proviso
Who said, “I only see that a fearful calamity is upon us,” when states began to secede from the Union?
What is Robert E. Lee
When the Southern states began to secede, what new "country" did they form?
What is the Confederate States of America