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Fugitive Slave
Compromises
Misc.
Terms of the pre-Civil War period
Figures of the pre-Civil War period
100
This white man attempted to start a slave insurrection in Virginia but failed, ultimately getting caught and was subsuquently hanged
Who is John Brown
100
This was the nickname given to the line created in the Missouri Compromise
What is the 36 30' Line or Mason Dixon Line
100
This party was created in the wake of the Kansas-Nebraska Act
What is the Republican Party
100
This is the nickname for the pre-Civil War period
What is Antebellum
100
This man invented the cotton gin
Who is Eli Whitney
200
This was the nickname for the route slaves traveled throughout the south when trying to escape to northern free territories/states
What is the Underground Railroad
200
These two states were created as a result of the Missouri Compromise (Compromise of 1820)
What are Maine and Missouri
200
This was the name of the federal arsenal that John Brown attacked
What is Harpers Ferry
200
This was the nickname for the prediction that America would eventually to stretch from sea to shining sea
What is Manifest Destiny
200
This man was President during the Mexican-American war
Who is James K. Polk
300
This is the name of the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court that was involved in the Dred Scott decision
Who is Robert B. Taney
300
This stipulation (requirement) in the Compromise of 1850 had northern states and abolitionists up in arms
What is the Fugitive Slave Act
300
This country was in control of Mexico BEFORE Mexican independence
What is Spain
300

This is the name for the movement started to end slavery immediately

What is abolitionist

300
This man was caned on the senate floor by Preston Brooks
Who is Charles Sumner
400

This fugitive slave lived in a free state before moving to Missouri and petitioning the state to recognize his status as a free man.

Who is Dred Scott

400

This territory's application for statehood resulted in the crisis that led to the Compromise of 1850

What is California

400
This fugitive slave woman first freed herself and then became one of the most important figures in the Underground Railroad
Who is Harriet Tubman
400

This is the name for the "solution" many politicians came up with to solve the slave issue in the new territories. It asserted that the people residing in the new territory could vote on whether their state would be slave or free

What is popular sovereignty

400
This senator from Illinois spearheaded the Kansas-Nebraska Act
Who is Stephen A. Douglas
500
This fugitive slave fled Virginia for Massachusetts but was retrieved by his owner, tried and subsequently sent back to Virginia. Massachusetts citizens tried to break him free from the court house he was being held in.
Who is Anthony Burns
500
This piece of legislation was passed in 1854 and resulted in the repeal of the Missouri Compromise
What is the Kansas-Nebraska Act
500
This party was broken up in the wake of the Kansas-Nebraska Act
What is The Whig Party
500
Laws passed by several U.S. states in the North to counter the Fugitive Slave Acts
Personal liberty laws
500
This man was free and living in Saratoga before he was kidnapped in Washington D.C. and spent 12 years as a slave in Louisiana
Who is Solomon Northup