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This event started the Civil War.

What is the bombardment of Fort Sumter?

100
White Americans' belief that expansion of the nation across the continent was our God-given right.

What is Manifest Destiny? 

100
This is the codename for James Bond.

What is 007?

100

This happened to the Democratic Party that allowed the Republican to win the presidency.

What is they divided over how to handle the issue of slavery?
100

The states that seceded from the United States.

What are the Confederate States of America?

200

The election of this President caused the Southern states to secede.

Who is Abraham Lincoln?

200

This 1803 land grab by the government doubled the size of America.

What is the Louisiana Purchase?

200
This trilogy of movies was released in the early 2000s that made fun of James Bond.

What is Austin Powers?

200

This event caused the Southern states to finally secede from the United States.

What is the election of Abraham Lincoln?

200
The slave states between the Deep South and the northern states.

What are the Border States?

300
Name this event: When one southern congressman beat the snot out of a northern senator on the floor of the Senate.

What is the Brooks-Sumner affair?

300

This is the largest state in the Confederate states of America by land mass.

What is Texas?

300
This Disney+ series is slated to release on Memorial Day weekend.

What is Obi-Wan Kenobi?

300

These 3 border states joined the Confederacy.

What are Arkansas, Tennessee, and Virginia?

300

A law that was passed that required all citizens to catch and return all runaway slaves.

What is the Fugitive Slave Act?

400

This law allowed settlers in these two territories to decide whether they would become slave states or free states.

What is the Kansas-Nebraska Act?

400

Disagreement over this issue caused the Democratic Party to split and allowed the Republican Party to win the Presidential Election of 1860.

What is slavery?

400

This South American country runs along its western coast, touching Argentina and Bolivia.

What is Chile?

400

This was the compromise that the U.S. tried to use to keep slave states in the United States.

What is slavery would be protected in the states it already existed in?

400

All land west of this line would be preserved for Native Americans. 

What is the Proclamation Line of 1763?

500

This thing allowed California to enter the U.S. as a Free State.

What is the Compromise of 1850?

500

This was the largest territory in the west at the time of the Civil War.

What is the Nebraska Territory?

500

This is the world's fastest mile run by a man. 

What is 3:43?

500
This man commanded the Confederate troops in Charleston at the beginning of the Civil War.

Who is P. G. T. Beauregard? 

500

The place where rivers flow into the sea leaving soil deposits behind.

What is a delta?