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100
Responsible for the Pottawattomie Massacre and Raid on Harper's Ferry

John Brown

100

What is nativism?

A belief in laws that favor native born people

100

What was the more common name of the American Party?

Know Nothing Party

100
Several violent incidents leading to more than 200 deaths led to a state on the Great Plains being called by this name.  

Bleeding Kansas

100

Who won the election of 1860?

Lincoln

200

Most famous conductor of the Underground Railroad

Harriett Tubman

200

Explain popular sovereignty

Residents of a territory can vote on slavery
200

The American Party's main belief was in what?

Nativism

200

What was the main topic of the Lincoln-Douglas Debates?  (be specific)

Slavery in the territories

200

What was the first state to leave the Union after the 1860 election?

South Carolina

300

Wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin

Harriett Beecher Stowe

300

What is the formal withdrawal from the Union called?

Secession

300

Which party was formed in 1848 with a belief that slavery should not be expanded into any new territories?

Free Soil

300

What was the Wilmot Proviso and who favored it?  

Proposed banning slavery in any territory acquired from Mexico and the North favored it.

300

What anti-slavery town was burned by border ruffians from Missouri?

Lawrence

400

This man endorsed the Lecompton Constitution because he owed his winning the 1856 presidential election to Southern support.

James Buchanan

400

Famous 1857 court case that seemingly said property owners could take slaves anywhere

Dred Scott vs. Sanford

400

What third party believed in complete abolition of slavery?

Liberty

400
Which law allowed California to be admitted into the Union as a free state and allowed voters in Utah and New Mexico to decide about slavery themselves?

Compromise of 1850

400

First president of the southern states

Jefferson Davis

500

What man hit Charles Sumner over the head with a cane on the floor of the Senate and nearly killed him?

Preston Brooks

500

What did several northern states pass in response to the stricter fugitive slave act?

Personal Liberty Laws
500

Republican candidate for president in 1856

John C. Fremont

500

What was formed on February 4, 1861?

Confederate States of America

500

Name all four candidates in the Election of 1860

Lincoln, Douglas, Bell, Breckinridge