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Category #1 200 Click here for answer Name the two major compromises agreed to by the South and the North leading up to the Civil War.
Category #1 Question 400 Click here for answer In the Missouri Compromise, what state entered the Union as a free state?
Category #1 Question 600 Click here for answer Name one thing the South got out of the Compromise of 1850.
Category #1 Question 800 Click here for answer Name two things the North got out of the Compromise of 1850.
Category #1 Question 1000 Click here for answer What line was drawn across the map as part of the Missouri Compromise? What did it mean?
Category #2 Question 200 Click here for answer Who led a raid on Harpers Ferry in an attempt to free Southern slaves?
Category #2 Question 400 Click here for answer What book was written in 1852 showing the horrors of slavery? Who was the author?
Category #2 Question 600 Click here for answer The election of the first Republican president was the immediate cause of the Civil War. Who was the president and in what year was he elected?
Category #2 Question 800 Click here for answer Who was the slave who sued for his freedom in an 1857 Supreme Court case? What was the court’s decision in the case?
Category #2 Question 1000 Click here for answer Which Massachusetts senator was beaten with a cane for his anti-slavery beliefs? Who beat him?
Category #3 Question 200 Click here for answer What two territories were going to decide the issue of slavery for themselves as part of the Compromise of 1850?
Category #3 Question 400 Click here for answer What was the result of John Brown’s raid on Harpers Ferry?
Category #3 Question 600 Click here for answer What event took place as a result of the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
Category #3 Question 800 Click here for answer Why did the Nebraska and Kansas Territories want to start territorial governments?
Category #3 Question 1000 Click here for answer What did South Carolina do when it heard about the election of Abraham Lincoln? (Your answer must be only two words long.)
Category #4 Question 200 Click here for answer Define abolitionist. Name three abolitionists from this unit.
Category #4 Question 400 Click here for answer Define popular sovereignty. List two territories that planned to use popular sovereignty.
Category #4 Question 600 Click here for answer Define sectionalism as it relates to the causes of the Civil War.
Category #4 Question 800 Click here for answer On December 20 th, 1860, the Charleston Mercury reported that “The Union is Dissolved.” What did this mean?
Category #4 Question 1000 Click here for answer Who was the Chief Justice who gave the majority opinion in the Dred Scott case?
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Category #5 Question 1000 Click here for answer Start with the year Lincoln was elected. Add the year of the Dred Scott decision. Subtract the year South Carolina seceded. Subtract the year Uncle Tom’s Cabin was published.
Category 1 Answer 200 Score Board The Missouri Compromise and the Compromise of 1850.
Category 1 Answer 400 Score Board Maine
Category 1 Answer 600 Score Board The Fugitive Slave Law was passed and slavery continued in Washington, D.C.
Category 1 Answer 800 Score Board California became a free state and the slave trade was abolished in Washington, D.C.
Category 1 Answer 1000 Score Board was the slave line. Anything north of the line was free. Anything south could be slave.
Category 2 Answer 200 Score Board John Brown
Category 2 Answer 400 Score Board Uncle Tom’s Cabin Harriet Beecher Stowe
Category 2 Answer 600 Score Board Abraham Lincoln, 1860
Category 2 Answer 800 Score Board Dred Scott The court decided he was still a slave and that black Americans have no rights that whites have to respect.
Category 2 Answer 1000 Score Board Senator Charles Sumner, Rep. Preston Brooks
Category 3 Answer 200 Score Board Utah and New Mexico
Category 3 Answer 400 Score Board Brown was unsuccessful. His rebellion was stopped, and he was hanged for his role in it.
Category 3 Answer 600 Score Board Bleeding Kansas
Category 3 Answer 800 Score Board Americans wanted to build a transcontinental railroad there.
Category 3 Answer 1000 Score Board It seceded.
Category 4 Answer 200 Score Board Someone who wants to end slavery. Many examples will be accepted.
Category 4 Answer 400 Score Board A vote on the issue of slavery. Kansas, Nebraska, Utah, and New Mexico will all be accepted.
Category 4 Answer 600 Score Board The idea that the North and the South were divided based on their interests.
Category 4 Answer 800 Score Board It means that South Carolina has seceded from the country. It is no longer part of the United States.
Category 4 Answer 1000 Score Board Roger B. Taney
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