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Kentucky congressman nicknamed the "Great Compromiser"; man responsible for Compromise of 1820
Who is Henry Clay?
100
Site of famous raid on a federal arsenal
What is Harpers Ferry, Virginia?
100
People who hated slavery and wanted to do away with it
What are abolitionists?
100
Settlement reached when two arguing groups agree to give up some things
What is a compromise?
100
Author of Uncle Tom's Cabin
Who is Harriet Beecher Stowe?
200
Man who debated Stephen Douglas for Senate seat in Illinois; man elected president in 1860
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
200
Area seeking statehook that was the subject of Henry Clay's first compromise
What is Missouri?
200
Slave on the run
What is a fugitive?
200
Withdrawal of states from the Union
What is to secede?
200
African American who had his case heard by the Supreme Court
Who is Dred Scott?
300
Man who ran for the presidency in 1860 on the Southern Democratic ticket
Who is John Breckinridge?
300
Area that wanted to enter the Union in 1850, resulting in another compromise
California
300
Idea that the people in the area of the Mexican Cession should vote to decide whether their state would be slave or free
What is popular sovereignty?
300
When opposing groups of the same country fight a war
What is a civil war?
300
Confederate general who attacked Fort Sumter
Who is Jefferson Davis?
400
Illinois senator who proposed the Kansas-Nebraska Act
Who is Stephen Douglas?
400
First southern state to leave the Union
What is South Carolina?
400
Political party formed in 1854
What is the Republican Party?
400
Nickname for Kansas in the period before the war
What is "Bleeding Kansas"?
400
Man who debated Abraham Lincoln for the Senate seat from Illinois
Who is Stephen Douglas?
500
Conferderate general who attacked Fort Sumter
Who is Jefferson Davis?
500
First capital of the Confederacy
What is Richmond, Virginia?
500
Act that organized two new territories in the northern part of the Louisiana Purchase
What is the Missouri Compromise?
500
New nation formed by the Southern states
What are the Confederate States of America?
500
President of the United States during the Civil War
Who is Abraham Lincoln?