1. Nation Divided

2. Secession
Famous People
Compromises
Daily Life
Political Parties
Grab Bag

3. $200 $400 $600 $800 $1,000 Secession People Grab Bag Political Parties
Daily Life
Compro-mises
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4. This was the first state to secede from the Union.
Secession (200)
This was the first state to secede from the Union.
S. Carolina

5. Secession (400)
The official name of the “country” formed by the states that seceded from the Union.
Confederate States of America

6. Secession (600)
How many states seceded before Lincoln was sworn in as president? 7

7. Secession (800)
The senator who first proposed secession over the Tariff of 1828.
John C. Calhoun

8. He was chosen as the president of the Confederacy.
Secession (1000)
He was chosen as the president of the Confederacy.
Jefferson Davis

9. People (200)
Abolitionist who murdered five people at Pottawatomie Creek, Kansas in 1856.
John Brown

10. She wrote the book Uncle Tom’s Cabin.
People (400)
She wrote the book Uncle Tom’s Cabin.
Harriet Beecher Stowe

11. People (600)
He debated Lincoln seven times during the Illinois senate race in 1858.
Stephen Douglas

12. People (800)
The senator from Massachusetts who was beaten until he was unconscious on the Senate floor.
Charles Sumner

13. People (1000)
He escaped from slavery and became a leader in the abolition movement.
Frederick Douglass

14. Compromises (200)
This man’s lawsuit claiming he should no longer be a slave reached the Supreme Court.
Dred Scott

15. Compromises (1000)
This 1854 law allowed residents to vote on slavery in a territory previously set aside as free.
Kansas-Nebraska Act

16. Compromises (600)
This 1820 agreement created an imaginary line that divided the nation into free and slave territories.
Missouri Compromise

17. Compromises (800)
This territory entered the nation as a free state as part of the Compromise of 1850.
California

18. This unpopular law forced northerners to return runaway slaves.
Compromises (400)
This unpopular law forced northerners to return runaway slaves.
Fugitive slave law

19. Grab Bag (200)
This “bleeding” state served as an early battle ground for the Civil War.
Kansas

20. John Brown raided the federal arsenal in this Virginia town in 1859.
Grab Bag (400)
John Brown raided the federal arsenal in this Virginia town in 1859.
Harper’s Ferry

21. Grab Bag (600)
Women’s rights advocates held a convention in this New York town in 1848.
Seneca Falls

22. Grab Bag (800)
These temporary settlers moved into Kansas to make sure the territory voted pro-slavery.
Border Ruffians

23. Grab Bag (1000)
Congress rejected this suggestion to outlaw slavery in territory acquired from Mexico.
Wilmot Proviso

24. Political Parties (200)
This party formed in 1854 and had a president in the White House by 1860.
Republican

25. Political Parties (400)
This party split into northern and southern factions over the slavery issue.
Democrats

26. John Bell represented this political party in the Election of 1860.
Political Parties (600)
John Bell represented this political party in the Election of 1860.
Constitutional Union

27. Political Parties (800)
This party opposed immigration and tried to limit voting rights for immigrants.
Know Nothing

28. Political Parties (1000)
Millard Fillmore was the last president from this party, which broke up in the 1850s.
Whig

29. Daily Life (200)
These farmers, with at least 20 slaves, formed the highest social class in the South.
planters

30. Daily Life (400)
Most immigrants to the U.S. came from these two European nations.
Germany & Ireland

31. Daily Life (600)
These laws were designed to prevent slaves from running away or rebelling.
Slave codes

32. Daily Life (800)
These organizations tried to improve wages and work conditions in factories.
Trade unions

33. Daily Life (1000)
The goal of this reform movement was to make alcohol illegal.
Temperance

34. Final Jeopardy
List the seven states that seceded from the Union by the time Abraham Lincoln was inaugurated as the 16th president.
South Carolina, Mississippi, Texas, Louisiana, Alabama, Florida & Georgia