History
A House Divided
Presidents
Dates for the Brave
100

This man was elected President of the Confederate States

Who was Jefferson Davis?

100

The idea that if any one man would choose to enslave another, no third man shall be allowed to object had one of these two names, one good and one bad 

(600 for naming both)

What is squatter sovereignty, and sacred right of self-government?

100

The presidents before and after Abraham Lincoln

Who were James Buchanan, and Andrew Johnson?

100

The year in which Abraham Lincoln was born

What is 1809?

200

Abraham Lincoln served in the militia of this war in 1832

What was The Black Hawk War?

200

The Dred Scott decision that ruled that having lived in a free state and territory did not entitle an enslaved person to his freedom, was so named because of this

What is the slave who was ruled against was named Dred Scott?

200

The 11th U.S. President

Who was James K. Polk?

200

The year the Black Hawk War ensued

What is 1832?

300

This act officially initiated the Civil War

What is firing on Fort Sumter?

300

The man who some people said would be the best to meet and overthrow the power of the "dynasty"

Who was Judge/Senator Douglas?

300

Three of the five presidents in history who did not have a vice president 

Who were John Tyler, Millard Fillmore, Andrew Johnson, and Chester A. Arthur?

300

The year Abraham Lincoln was elected to be president

What is 1860?

400

Lincoln's debates with this man earned him a reputation as a powerful orator, even after he lost his run for Senate in 1858

Who was Stephen Douglas?

400

Two of the three points which Abraham Lincoln named of the Dred Scott decision

What are 1) Blacks cannot be full citizens 2) Neither Congress nor a Territorial Legislature can exclude slavery from any United States territory 3) The court of the State in which the master and slave reside would decide whether the slave was free if they lived in a free state?

400

The 22nd and 24th presidents of the U.S.

Who was Grover Cleveland?

400

South Carolina seceded from the Union in January of this year

What is 1861?

500

The Emancipation Proclamation, while not having the power to physically free slaves, permitted former slaves to do this for their own freedom

What is to serve in the army?

500

Abraham Lincoln partly asserts in A House Divided that the events of the past few years were part of this (not a word he says, but one that he implies)

What is a conspiracy?

500

The last Whig president

Who was Millard Fillmore?

500

The year Lincoln gave his Gettysburg Address, and the year he presented the Emancipation Proclamation

What is 1863?