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Thinkin' Lincoln
Bloody bleeding Kansas, dripping with blood
Dred Scott Batman!
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Lincoln Fun Facts
100
A house divided against itself can't do this according to Lincoln.
What is "cannot stand?"
100
This act violently divided Kansas to pro and anti slavery groups.
What is the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
100
Dred Scott sued for this since he once lived in free territory.
What is freedom?
100
He proposed the Compromise of 1850 to settle disputes between slave and free states
Who is Henry Clay?
100
Lincoln really didn't like this future Illinois senator. Perhaps it was because he looked like a garden gnome.
Who is Stephen Douglas?
200
Lincoln promised to leave slavery alone in this region of the country.
What is the south?
200
John Brown was responsible for this event in Kansas after the beating of Charles Sumner.
What is The Pottawatomie Massacre?
200
One of the rulings dealt whether or not Scott was this in order to bring suit.
What is a citizen?
200
He was attacked by Preston Brooks in the Senate chambers. While it took him three years to recover, Brooks got more canes.
Who is Charles Sumner?
200
A nickname Abraham Lincoln got during the election of 1860. He didn't like it but didn't mind it either.
What is "rail-splitter?"
300
Lincoln agreed with John Brown on this issue but disagreed in using violence.
What is slavery?
300
Pro-slavery posse sacked this town in Kansas.
What is Lawrence?
300
Chief Justice Robert B. Taney said that African Americans had "no rights which a [blank] was bound to respect."
What is "white man"?
300
This book was published by Harriet Beecher Stowe in 1852 and stirred up the south regarding slavery.
What is Uncle Tom's Cabin?
300
Lincoln's three sons. Only one would live to old age.
Who is Robert, Edward, William and Thomas/Tad?
400
Lincoln believed that African-Americans were "entitled to all the natural rights" listed in this American document.
What is, The Declaration of Idependence?
400
Kansas received this gruesome nick-name due to hundreds of deaths in wake of the Kansas-Nebraska Act.
What is "Bleeding-Kansas?"
400
One one the three rulings used this amendment as an example that no one could be deprived of property since slaves were deemed property.
What is the 5th Amendment?
400
John Brown raided Harper's Ferry in this state, hoping to start a slave rebellion. Instead, he started the Civil War.
What is Virginia?
400
Lincoln's profession in Springfield, Illinois.
What is lawyer?
500
Lincoln became the 16th president in November of 1860 only to have South Carolina do this on December 20th, 1860
What is secede?
500
It was this goal that spurred Stephen Douglas to put the Kansas-Nebraska Act on track.
What is a railroad from Chicago to the Pacific?
500
The three rulings in the Dred Scott case.
What is 1. African-Americans are not citizens 2. Free-soil doesn't equal freedom 3. It is unconstitutional for Congress to prohibit slavery.
500
He received the popular and electoral votes in the election of 1860.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
500
In being elected president one day Lincoln thought, "Just think of such a [blank] as me as President."
What is "sucker"?