Show:
People
Documents
Places
Conflicts
100
He won the election of 1860.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
100
This emphasized states' rights, allowed slavery, but stopped importing slaves.
What is the constitution of the Confederacy?
100
The Compromise of 1850 stated that the slave trade in this city would end.
What is Washington, DC?
100
Border Ruffians raided the anti-slavery town of Lawrence, Kansas leading reporters to call the situation this.
What is "Bleeding Kansas"?
200
This Missouri slave sued to obtain his freedom.
Who is Dred Scott?
200
Two opposing governments formed after this was passed.
What is the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
200
The Compromise of 1850 stated that this would enter the Union as a free state.
What is California?
200
First state to secede from the Union.
What is South Carolina?
300
He won the Illinois senate seat against Abraham Lincoln.
Who is Stephen Douglas?
300
These were passed in the North in direct response to the Fugitive Slave Act.
What are personal liberty laws?
300
He won every state in the South in the election of 1860.
Who is John C. Breckinbridge?
300
Northerners viewed this man as a martyr after the raid at Harper's Ferry.
Who is John Brown?
400
Members of an anti-immigrant movement.
Who are the Know-Nothings? +3
400
This allowed slavery in territories and reimbursed slaveowners.
What is the Crittenden Compromise? +2
400
This area was split into two territories and allowed popular sovereignty.
What is the Nebraska region?
400
Confederate troops opened fire at Union troops at this place.
What is Fort Sumter? +1
500
He was the Supreme Court Chief Justice who wrote the Dred Scott decision.
Who is Roger B. Taney? +4
500
The Kansas-Nebraska Act nullified this.
What is the Missouri Compromise?
500
John Brown killed five pro-slavery settlers here after the anti-slavery town Lawrence was raided.
What is the Pottawatomie Creek? +5
500
He wrote about a slave turning against his owner in Blake.
Who is Martin Delany? +3