Partying People
Let the Bodies Hit the Floor
States and Slavery
Legal Laws
Extras
100
An upstart politician from Illinois. He debated with Douglas Stephen and eventually became president in 1860.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
100
This event was the result of Northerners and Southerners flooding into Kansas to vote if it would become a Free State or Slave State with deadly results.
What is Bleeding Kansas?
100
This is the term used for a state that allows the practice of slavery.
What is a Slave State?
100
This compromise allowed California to come into the Union as a free state and introduced the idea of Popular Sovereignty.
What is The Compromise of 1850?
100
On February 17th of 1995, the most important event in human history happened as it was the birth of this individual.
Who is Mr. Allen?
200
They were a secret organization turned political party who was made up of Nativists. Though called The American Party, their phrase of saying "I don't know" got them this moniker.
Who are The Know-Nothings Party?
200
When South Carolina militia attacked this fort, it sparked the beginning of the Civil War.
What is Fort Sumter?
200
This law passed in 1850 forced Northerners to return runaway slaves to the South.
What is the Fugitive Slave Act?
200
This is the practice of letting territories decide for themselves whether they would be a free state or a slave state.
What is Popular Sovereignty?
200
Called "the little woman who wrote the book that started this great war," by Abraham Lincoln, she is the author of the anti-slave book, Uncle Tom's Cabin.
Who is Harriet Beecher Stowe?
300
This party was formed as a reaction to the Kansas-Nebraska act. With an icon of an elephant, I only hope they don't run into any mice.
Who are the Republicans?
300
He was a radicalized abolitionist who killed 5 slave owners with a sword and wanted to start a slave revolt. No slaves came to his aid, and he died a martyr.
Who is John Brown?
300
While they were the losers of the 2024 Superbowl, this group of people had better luck in the late 1800s finding gold in California.
Who are the forty-niners?
300
This was a controversial court case in 1857, where the Supreme Court declared that Congress does not have the power to ban slavery in any territories.
Dred Scott v Stanford
300
A brave woman who was born a slave and later became a conductor on the Underground Railroad. Nicknamed Moses, she led over 300 slaves to freedom armed with only a bible and a shotgun.
Who is Harriet Tubman?
400
He was a famous politician and Democrat who helped passed the Compromise of 1850, and was a shoe-in to become president in 1860 until his disastrous debates with the 16th president destroyed his platform.
Who is Stephen Douglas?
400
A U.S. Government arsenal that was the site of an unsuccessful raid by John Brown and his men.
What is Harper's Ferry?
400
Virginia, South Carolina, Texas, and Florida were four states that broke from the Union and came together to create this new Nation.
The Confederate States of America
400
The act that destroyed the Missouri Compromise and the Compromise of 1850, spiking violence and tension all over the country and killing the Whig Party in the process.
What is The Kansas-Nebraska Act?
400
These two immigrant groups as seen here sparked anti-immigration and anti-Catholic feelings and actions as Nativists try to prevent them from being employed or working in their government.
Who are the Irish and Germans?
500
During the 1860 election, this Senator from Tennessee represented the short-lived party known as the Constitutional Union Party. Going against John C., this Doe could only Ring loudly in Virginia, Kentucky, and Tennessee.
Who is John Bell?
500
The most violent war in American History, this war is ranked highest in total number of U.S. military deaths with an estimate of over 600k military deaths.
What is the Civil War?
500
This man is the first and only president of the Confederate States of America. A senator from Mississippi, he stepped up to the role of President and said, "The time for compromise is now passed."
Who is Jefferson Davis?
500
This came out of the Lincoln-Douglas Debates, stating that Americans can enact pro or anti slave laws despite the Dred Scott ruling.
What is the Freeport Doctrine?
500
In all of American History only 5 presidents won the Presidency with losing the Electoral Vote. Donald Trump is the most current one, but this man was the first.
Who is John Quincy Adams?