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A radical abolitionist executed for raiding a federal arsenal at Harper's Ferry, Virginia in 1859

Who was John Brown?

100

Lincoln's victory in this election led to the secession of nine Southern states

What is the election of 1860?

100

Home state of Abraham Lincoln and Stephen Douglas

What was Illinois?

100

Lincoln's political party

Who were the Republicans?

100

In the 1850s, this rapidly expanding transportation network helped connect the East and Midwest, boosted trade, and played a key role in debates over routes through free or slave territories.


What is the railroad?

200
He defeated John Breckinridge, John Bell, and one other candidate to win the presidential election of 1860

Who was Abraham Lincoln?

200

The passage of this bill in 1854 effectively repealed the Missouri Compromise and allowed for residents of a federal territory to vote on the issue of slavery

What was the Kansas-Nebraska Act?

200
Territory (now a state) where John Brown and his sons, along with other anti-slavery fighters, murdered pro-slavery settlers in 1854 at Pottawatomie Creek

What was Kansas?

200

Political party split into a Northern and Southern faction during the election of 1860

Who were the Democrats?

200

Number of electoral votes won by Lincoln in southern states

What was zero?

300
Author of the Kansas-Nebraska Act, he finished fourth in the presidential election of 1860

Who was Stephen Douglas?

300

This book, published in 1851, became a bestseller in the United States despite being banned in most Southern States due to its depiction of the horrors of slavery

What was Uncle Tom's Cabin?

300

State that joined the Union as a free state following the Compromise of 1850

What was California?

300

Abraham Lincoln and Stephen Douglas ran against each other for which elected office in 1858

What is senator?

300

Two-word term; Democratic principle that means political power should come directly from the people

What was popular sovereignty?

400
An enslaved person born in Missouri, he was denied his freedom by the Supreme Court in 1857

Who was Dred Scott?

400
Part of the Compromise of 1850, this act led to federal troops and Southern bounty hunters patrolling Northern cities

What was the Fugitive Slave Act?

400

Home state of enslaved man whose Supreme Court case in 1857 divided the nation

What was Missouri?

400

Main political issue dividing the country during the 1850s. BE SPECIFIC.

What was the expansion of slavery into the western territories?

400

This economic issue regarding taxes on imported goods also divided North and South in the election of 1860.

What are tariffs?

500
Rescued by a group of (unarmed?) abolitionists in Boston in 1851, he lived the rest of his life as a free man in Montreal, Canada

Who was Shadrach Minkins?

500

Two word phrase referring the violence that erupted following the repeal of the Missouri Compromise which allowed for residents from the territories to vote on the issue of slavery

What was "Bleeding Kansas"?
500
Central Massachusetts city home to the Drake House which was part of the Underground Railroad and one of the places that acted as a hideout for the escaped slave rescued from a Boston courthouse in 1851.

What is Leominster?

500

Single issue political party formed in 1848. It merged with the Republican party in 1854 following the passage of the Kansas-Nebraska Act.

What was the Free Soil party?

500

The "Franklin" and "James" referred to by Lincoln in his "House Divided" speech were both presidents during the 1850s.  What were there last names?

What are Pierce (Franklin) and Buchanan (James)?