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Dramatis Personae
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Wildcard
100
This man earned an "honest" nickname, because “he would refuse cases that he had to suspend his conscience to defend” (430).
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
100
Lincoln launched fierce debates against this democrat during the Election of 1860.
Who is Stephen Douglass?
100
This book emphasizing anti-slavery views was written by the "little woman" who, according to Abraham Lincoln, "started this big war”.
What is Uncle Tom's Cabin?
100
This state was the first to secede from the Union after Lincoln was elected president in 1860.
What is South Carolina?
100
Abraham Lincoln and the president of the Confederacy ironically were both born in this state.
What is Kentucky?
200
This “wisp of a woman and the mother of a half-dozen children” (Bailey Cohen Kennedy 420) is known as “the little woman who started this big war” (A. Lincoln).
Who is Harriet Beecher Stowe?
200
This state’s senatorial election of 1858 claimed a large national spotlight, inspiring a type of debate used today.
What is Illinois?
200
Th United States consisted of this many slave states on the eve of the "secessionist exodus" (437).
What is fifteen?
200
Southerners were angered when this state in addition to Nebraska was rumored to be "abolitionized" (422), causing much turbulence and an eventual civil war which would eventually merge with the large scale Civil War.
What is Kansas?
200
An influx of immigrants from Ireland and Germany led to the formation of this political party which threatened to hurt Republican strength in the 1856 presidential election.
What is the "Know Nothing" party?
300
This “Old Buck” was the Democrats nominee for the 1856 presidential election.
Who is James Buchanan?
300
This was Stephen Douglass’ answer to Lincoln’s question regarding whether the Supreme Court or the people would prevail if the public were to vote down slavery by popular sovereignty. Through this, Douglass argued that the people would prevail.
What is the Freeport Doctrine?
300
Part of what would become a hugely controversial court case, Dred Scott was a black slave living with his master for five years in Illinois and this territory, both of which were considered free.
What is the Wisconsin Territory?
300
As tension mounted between free-soilers and slavery supporters over the free-state/slave-state status of Kansas in 1856, pro-slavery raiders attacked and burned this town in “the prelude to a bloodier tragedy” (Bailey Cohen Kennedy 423).
What is Lawrence?
300
Inflation caused by the California gold rush and the over-stimulation of the harvesting of grain during the Crimean War caused "panic" in this year.
What is 1857?
400
U.S. Marines under this military leader captured a wounded John Brown and the "remnants of his tiny band" (433).
Who is Lieutenant Colonel Robert E. Lee?
400
This “tricky document” (Bailey Cohen Kennedy 423) devised by pro-slaveryites disallowed the people of Kansas to vote for or against their Constitution, but had them vote for the Constitution “with slavery” or “without slavery,” and ensured in any event protection for current Kansas slave owners.      
What is the Lecompton Constitution?
400
Weapons purchased for abolitionists who moved to the Kansas territory to support their cause were given this nickname, after author Harriet Beecher Stowe's brother.
What are "Beecher's Bibles"?
400
In his attack at Harper's Ferry, John Brown killed this many people with his supporters.
What is 7?
400
Abraham Lincoln read law books and emerged as a trial lawyer before declaring himself as a member of this party and serving one term in congress in 1847-1849.
What is the Whig Party?
500
A man who “hated both slavery and blacks” (Bailey Cohen Kennedy 421), his The Impending Crisis in the South was used as “campaign literature” (422) for Northern Republicans and further fueled hostility between North and South.   
Who is Hinton R. Helper?
500
This compromise was rejected outright by Lincoln, who claimed that it would amount to "a perpetual covenant of war against every people, tribe, and state owning a foot of land between here and Tierra del Fuego" (439).
What is the Crittenden Compromise?
500
This "trouble-brewing" (421) book appeared five years after Uncle Tom's Cabin was published, written by a nonaristocratic white from North Carolina.
What is The Impending Crisis of the South?
500
John Brown was willing to “hac[k] to pieces five surprised men” (Bailey Cohen Kennedy 423) at this creek in the name of his cause.
What is Pottawatomie Creek?
500
Lincoln won this many electoral votes in the Election of 1860.
What are 180?