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Who's Who?
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A Divided Nation
Election and Secession
100
The economy here relied on plantation farming
What is the South
100
Senator from Illinois who participated in a series of debates in 1858 with Abraham Lincoln.
Who is Stephen Douglas
100
Federal arsenal in Virginia that was captured in 1859 during an antislavery revolt.
What is Harpers Ferry
100
The Author of "Uncle Tom's Cabin"
Who is Harriett Beecher Stowe
100
First president of the Confederate States of America.
Who is Jefferson Davis
200
The Growth of industry here led to the rapid growth of cities
What is the North
200
Supreme Court chief justice who wrote the majority opinion in the case of Dred Scott v. Sandford.
Who is Roger B Taney?
200
He viewed the expansion of slavery as “a moral, a social, and a political wrong.”
Who is Abraham Lincoln
200
A system that allows residents to vote to decide an issue.
What is Popular Sovereignty
200
Compromise introduced in 1861 that might have prevented secession.
What is the Crittenden Compromise
300
Political party that was formed by anti slavery Whigs after the Kansas-Nebraska Act passed in order to combat slavery.
What is the Republican Party
300
Democratic presidential candidate in 1856
Who is James Buchanan?
300
He believed that the states did not have the right to secede because the federal government was stronger than the state governments.
Who is President Buchanan
300
1854 law that established the territories of Kansas and Nebraska and gave their residents the right to decide whether to allow slavery.
What is the Kansas Nebraska Act
300
Confederation formed in 1861 by the Southern States after their secession from the Union
What is the Confederate States of America
400
He Murdered several proslavery settlers in kansas
who is John Brown
400
The first Republican presidential candidate in 1856
Who is John C. Fremont?
400
Daily Double!!!!!!!!!!!! Union Fort located in the harbor of Charleston, SC.
What is Fort Sumter
400
They feared enslaved workers would replace them.
Who are Northerners
400
Became the first state to secede from the Union on December 20, 1860.
What is South Carolina
500
Political Party that was created because of the Wilmot Proviso.
What is the Free Soil Party
500
Slave who sued for his freedom.
Who is Dred Scott?
500
Series of laws that brought California in as a free state and was meant to settle the differences between free and slave states.
What is the Compromise of 1850
500
1850 law that punished Northern whites who did not help capture runaway slaves.
What is the Fugitive Slave Act
500
It nominated two people for president in the election of 1860.
what is the Democratic Party