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Compromises
Bleeding Kansas
John Brown
Dred Scott
Secession
100
This state's petition to join the Union as a free state in 1850 sparked a political firestorm in Congress that led to the passage of the Fugitive Slave Act.
What is "California"?
100
In 1854, Congress passed a law that put the question of slavery up to a popular vote in these two Western territories.
What are "Kansas" and "Nebraska"?
100
This man's murder indirectly caused John Brown's conversion into a radical abolitionist.
Who is "Elijah P. Lovejoy"?
100
During his lifetime Dred Scott lived in thse two states, one slave and one free.
What are "Missouri" and "Illinois"?
100
Which candidate won the election of 1860?
Who is "Abraham Lincoln"?
200
As part of the Missouri Compromise, these two states were admitted to the Union--one slave and one free.
What are "Missouri" and "Maine"?
200
Many many pro-slavery and anti-slavery activists reacted to the announcement that Kansas would have a referendum on slavery by doing this.
What is "moving to Kansas"?
200
What did John Brown and his sons accomplish at Potawatomie Creek, Kansas in 1856?
What is "the violent murder of 5 pro-slavery men"?
200
Did the Missouri Supreme Court's decision identify Dred Scott to be a free man or a slave?
What is "a slave"?
200
This state seceded from the Union on December 20, 1860, the very first state to do so.
What is "South Carolina"?
300
The Missouri Compromise banned slavery in territories north of this boundary--it didn't last though.
What is "36 degrees, 30 minutes North Latitude"?
300
On the day of the election, which side "won" the election and by how much?
What are "the pro-slavery activists by 4-times the number of people eligible to vote"?
300
This is the town where Brown led an unsuccessful slave revolt in October 1859.
What is "Harper's Ferry, Virginia"?
300
This Supreme Court justice wrote the majority decision in the Dred Scott case.
Who is "Roger B. Taney"?
300
Only 7 states had seceded from the Union before this event in April of 1861.
What is "the attack or battle at Fort Sumter"?
400
These territories were opened up to slavery as a result of the Compromise of 1850.
What are "New Mexico & Utah Territories" or "formerly Mexican territories"?
400
Eight hundered armed men looted and burned this anti-slavery bastion in the spring of 1856.
What is "Lawrence, Kansas"?
400
This is the name of the crime that John Brown was executed for in December of 1859.
What is "treason"?
400
The Dred Scott decision declared this federal law of 1820 unconstitutional.
What is the "Missouri Compromise"?
400
This is the man that the Confederate States chose to represent them as president.
Who is "Jefferson Davis"?
500
Was the Wilmot Proviso an anti-slavery or pro-slavery proposal?
What is "an anti-slavery proposal"? It proposed to outlaw slave-holding in any lands acquired from Mexico.
500
How did abolitionsists react to the "election results" in Kansas?
What "they ignored them" or "they set up their own government"?
500
Because of his role in instigating the Civil War by terrifying the South into developing a militia to defend themselves, people today still refer to Brown as the ______________ of the war.
What is "meteor"?
500
According to the Dred Scott decision, did Dred Scott have the right to bring a lawsuit to federal court? Yes or No?
What is "No"? The Court concluded that Scott was not, and had never become, a federal citizen, and so he was not entitled to any legal rights in the United States.
500
This was the northermost state in the Confederacy, and the closest to the Union's capitol.
What is "Virginia"?