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Abolitionism
Compromise of 1850/ Bleeding Kansas
Dred Scott/ Lincoln- Douglas Debates
Harper's Ferry, Election of 1860, Union Collapse
War and It's End
100
Escaped slavery to become a leading abolitionist. She led hundreds of enslaved people to freedom along the route of the Underground Railroad.
What is Harriet Tubman
100
Just before the Compromise, the ratio of slave states to free states in the U.S.A. was?
What is 15 free and 15 slave
100
What office were Lincoln and Douglas competing for?
What is the U.S. Senate seat from Illinois
100
What was John Brown's plan at Harper's Ferry
What is take the U.S. arsenal, get weapons, and lead a slave uprising
100
Where did the Emancipation Proclamation free slaves from?
What is the Confederate States of America
200
1 cause of abolitionism in the 1830s. (slavery is not the answer, think events)
What is British freeing their slaves in the West Indies OR the Second Great Awakening
200
This was a stricter system of tracking down, capturing, and returning escaped slaves to their owners in the South
What is Fugitive Slave Act
200
This man's stance was that no new slavery should be allowed in the Western territories.
What is Abraham Lincoln
200
This candidate of the 1860 Election believed popular sovereignty was the way to decide on the spread of slavery.
What is Stephen Douglas- Northern Democrat
200
This event was Union troops marching from northwest Georgia to the Atlantic Ocean using a the technique of total war.
What is Sherman's March
300
What idea was encouraging to non-slave owners in the south?
What is they still had a chance to get rich, they believed they were better than the slaves at least.
300
The term for these pro slavery men who invaded Kansas in order to vote illegally.
What is Border Ruffians
300
Name 1 cause for the Financial Crash of 1857
What is 1) California gold inflated currency 2) Land Speculation 3) Low tariffs 4) Over stimulation of growing grain
300
Who won the Election of 1860?
What is Abraham Lincoln
300
Who ran against Lincoln in the Presidential Election of 1864? What was his platform?
What is George McClellan. Platform: Peace, end the war.
400
Anti-slavery novel written by Harriet Beecher Stowe
What is Uncle Tom's Cabin
400
Idea that people of a territory could vote to decided if they wanted slavery in their state
What is Popular Sovereignty
400
What two things were determined by the Supreme Court in the Dred Scott decision.
What is property is protected by the Constitution and Dred Scott cannot even sue because he is not a citizen.
400
Who was the first state to secede from the Union?
What is South Carolina
400
Besides President Lincoln, who else did Booth plan to assassinate after the surrender of the South? He created this plan with two other men.
What is Vice President Johnson and Secretary of State Seward
500
Name 1 southern response to abolitionism.
What is Tighten slave codes. Increase penalties. The Bible supports slavery. Slaves were treated like family.
500
This Senator was beaten with a cane for insulting the south about their ideas of slavery.
What is Charles Sumner
500
What was Dred Scott's argument to the court?
What is I was a slave, but was taken to a free state, therefore I should be free
500
Who was the President of the Confederate States of America?
What is Jefferson Davis
500
Ultimately, what was the one thing the war accomplished?
What is it ended the institution of slavery.