Jeopardy Slavery Debate Trouble in Kansas Political Divisions Secession Misc. Q $100 Q $200 Q $300 Q $400 Q $500 Q $100 Q $200 Q $300 Q $400 Q $500 Final Jeopardy

$100 Answer Antislavery novel by Harriet Beecher Stowe that showed the violent reality of slavery and drew many people to the abolitionists’ cause

$100 Question What is Uncle Tom’s Cabin?

$200 Answer Law that made it a crime to help runaway slaves

$200 Question What is the Fugitive Slave Act?

$300 Answer Political party formed in 1848 by antislavery northerners who left the Whig and Democratic Parties because neither addressed the slavery issue

$300 Question What was the Free-Soil Party?

$400 Answer Proposal to outlaw slavery in lands acquired through the Mexican Cession

$400 Question What was the Wilmot Proviso?

$500 Answer His autobiography forced him to leave the country to avoid being arrested as a fugitive slave

$500 Question Who was Frederick Douglass?

$100 Answer Illinois senator who wanted a railroad built from Chicago to the Pacific

$100 Question Who was Stephen Douglas?

$200 Answer Event where John Brown and some followers killed five pro-slavery men

$200 Answer What was the Pottawatomie Massacre?

$300 Answer This man beat C. Sumner unconscious in the Senate chamber because he believed Sumner had insulted his cousin

$300 Question Who was Preston Brooks?

$400 Answer Law that allowed voters in the territories (from remaining La. Purchase) to choose whether to allow slavery

$400 Question What was the Kansas-Nebraska Act?

$500 Answer He was elected president in 1852 because he promised to honor the Compromise of 1850

$500 Question Who was Franklin Pierce?

$100 Answer This party formed in 1854 for those opposed to slavery spreading in the West

$100 Qusetion What is the Republican Party?

$200 Answer This Democrat won the presidential election of 1856

$200 Question Who was James Buchanan?

$300 Answer Series of events held in Illinois in which candidates for a U.S. Senate seat discussed issues facing the country

$300 Question What were the Lincoln- Douglas Debates ?

$400 Answer Supreme Court ruling that held that African Americans, whether slave or free, were not U.S. citizens under the U.S. Constitution

$400 Question What is the Dred Scott decision?

$500 Answer Name for Douglas’s response that “It matters not” what the Supreme Court decides about slavery

$500 Question What was the Freeport Doctrine?

$100 Answer New country formed by states that seceded from the United States

$100 Question What was the Confederate States of America ?

$200 Answer Seizure of the federal arsenal at Harpers Ferry, Virginia, by abolitionists

$200 Question What was John Brown’s Raid?

$300 Question He was elected the president of the Confederate States of America

$300 Question Who was Jefferson Davis?

$400 Answer Political party that recognized no political principles other than the Constitution, the Union, and the enforcement of the laws

$400 Question What was the Constitutional Union Party?

$500 Answer Kentucky senator who proposed a plan he hoped would satisfy the South and avoid secession

$500 Question Who was John J. Crittenden

$100 Answer Devotion to the interests of one region instead of to the country as a whole

$100 Question What is sectionalism?

$200 Answer Principle allowed voters in a territory to decide whether they wanted to ban or permit slavery

$200 Question What is popular sovereignty?

$300 Answer Act of formally withdrawing from the Union

$300 Question What is secession?

$400 Answer Illinois lawyer that warned about the Supreme Court’s ruling on the Missouri Compromise

$400 Question Who was Abraham Lincoln?

$500 Answer Antislavery activist that sent weapons to abolitionist settlers in Kansas

$500 Question Who was Henry Ward Beecher?

Final Jeopardy This plan allowed California to enter the Union as a free state, ended slave trade in DC, allowed popular sovereignty in NM & Utah and a stronger fugitive slave law

Final Jeopardy Answer What is the Compromise of 1850?