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The West
Prelude to Civil War
100
She wrote the novel "Uncle Tom's Cabin" which convinced many Northerners of the immorality of slavery
Who is Harriet Beecher Stowe?
100
This man led a raid in Harper's Ferry Virginia.
Who is John Brown?
100
The first state to secede from the Union when Lincoln was elected. 
What is South Carolina?
100
What were the 2 political parties of Stephen Douglas and Abraham Lincoln?
Douglas - Democrat; Lincoln - Republican
100
Election of 1844 winner and known for dealing with lands acquired from the Mexican American War and Texas Revolution. Rhymes with Lames Folk
Who is James Polk?
100
This boundaries of this territory were disputed with Britain with many Northerners demanding "54'40 or fight!" Be we got this northwest land in a treaty.
Oregon
100
He won only 40% of the popular vote in 1860 but at the most electoral votes. First Republican President rhymes with Gabe.
Abraham Lincoln
200
This part of the Compromise of 1850 was the most disagreeable to Northerners and contributed to the collapse of the Whig Party. People up North could not believe they were going to have to return escaped slaves!
Fugitive Slave Act
200
List his Supreme Court case and was deemed the “property” of his owner, even in free states.
Dred Scott
200
Due to the Compromise of 1850, this state was admitted without slavery.
California
200
The author of this cartoon is most likely from this group of people. List 4
Northerners, REpublicans, Aboltitionists, Free Soilers
200
This party was formed in 1848 and opposed the spread of slavery in the western territories.
Free Soil Party
200
He was elected after pledging to Annex Texas and get California from Mexico. Rhymes with Lames Folk.
James Polk
200
This 15th President (write before Lincoln in 1860) did not think he had the power to prevent the South from seceding. He made many angry with the Lecompton Constitution and trying to admit Kansas as a slave state. Rhymes with Lames Coocanon.
Who was James Buchanan
300
The Compromise of 1850 banned the slave trade where? Hint: our nations capital
What is Washington D.C.?
300
Whig nominee in 1848 Presidential Election. The 12th President. Name sounds like Bachery Baylor.
Who was Zachery Taylor?
300
Northerners opposed ____ because it took free territory and potentially made it slave territory. Like in John Brown’s state
What is the Kansas Nebraska Act?
300
Constitution drafted by pro-slavery advocates in Kansas that will make the North furious.
What was the Lecompton Constitution?
300
This was a proposal for the U.S. to purchase Cuba from Spain, angering many Northerners. The south wanted to make Cuba a part of a slave plantation.
Ostend Manifesto
300
William Lloyd Garrison, Frederick Douglas, Grimke Sisters, John Brown, Elizabeth Caddy Stanton, Lucretia Mott, Harriet Beecher Stowe were all
Who were the Leaders of the Abolitionist Movement…
300
new party that was formed by former members of both the know-nothing party and whigs their political goal was to make sure that the union did not break up.
What is the Constitutional Union Party
400
He received new canes after he beat Charles Sumner on the floor of the Senate.
Preston Brooks.
400
This man proposed a slave code in the Senate in 1860
Who is Jefferson Davis
400
Border ruffians from this state crossed into Kansas to vote illegally for the proslavery government.
Missouri
400
Southern Democrat nominee against Lincoln
Who is john c Breckenridge
400
This refers to Stephen Douglas's claim that popular sovereignty could still ban slavery in the territories even after the Dred Scott decision
The Freeport Doctrine
400
The Texas war for independence ended when he was captured
General Antonio Lopez de Santa Ana
400
President and Vice President of the new Confederate States of America
Jefferson Davis , and Alexander Stephens
500
Lost his SupremeCase, was an abolitionist that thought the Free Soil party was a step in the right direction. He Escaped Slavery with an illegal train ticket.
Frederick Douglas
500
After the Civil War, this Amendment to the US Constitution abolished slavery.
What is the 13th Amendment?
500
This Compromise said new states would alternate between free and slave status but with consideration of any new state below the 36 30’ line would become a slave state and any above it would be free.
What is the Missouri Compromise of 1820?
500
1846, David Wilmot, PA Congressman, introduced legislation prohibiting slavery in the territories won in the Mexican-American War.
What was the Wilmot Proviso?
500
U.S. Army General took down this radical abolitionist preacher at the Harpers Ferry raid in Virginia? Rhymes with don crown
John Brown
500
During the Texas Revolution, Davy Crockett a former Congressman from Tennessee and 200 others spent 13 days defending this Spanish fort from the Mexican soldiers but all died before US help arrived. Rhymes with salamo
What is the Alamo?
500
The power of the people to vote.
Rhymes with copular hovereignty
What is popular sovereignty?
600
The ruling of this Supreme Court case said.
1. Black people are not citizens
2. Slaves do not become free when they enter free territory
3. Congress cannot prohibit slavery in any territory.
What is the Dred Scott v Sanford case?
600
Title given to 3 major leaders (Daniel Webster, Henry Clay, and John C Calhoun) of the Antebellum period.
Rhymes with crate priumvirate
What is the Great Triumvirate?
600
Missouri (slave state) was the only state Stephen Douglas won during this election against Republican Abraham Lincoln.
What was the Election of 1860?
600
This Act repealed the Missouri Compromise and allowed popular sovereignty (voting) to decide slave/free state for the Kansas - Nebraska territories and also led to “Bleeding Kansas” because of rigged elections that popped up to sway the vote.
What was the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
600
Mexico thought this river was its border with Texas (not the Rio Grande river) and was a major reason for the Mexican-American War.
Rhymes with Mue s ez but starts with N
What was the Nueces River?
600
In the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, the U.S. paid $15 million dollars for this countries northern territories? Currently the US Southwest
What is Mexico?
600
What were 3 things that was added to the Republican platform in 1860 that was not there in 1856? Hint: BR
What were the
Homestead Act, tariff, and transcontinental railroad?