1. AROUND THE ROOM REVIEW The following questions need to be answered quickly and within your group. The best score earns bonus on the test.

2. Slide A 1. Who assaulted a military arsenal to help slaves rebel against the South? 2. What is a statement of political party beliefs called? 3. What bill tried to ban the spread of slavery into any territory gained by the Mexican War? 4. Who did the Northern Democrats want to be their president in 1860?

3. Slide B 5. Who brought a lawsuit to the Supreme Court in order to try and gain his freedom? 6. What law settled the controversy over slavery in California and the rest of the Mexican Cession? 7. What political party was dedicated to stopping the expansion of slavery? 8. What law aroused great opposition and widespread disobedience in the North?

4. Slide C 9. Which political figure from Illinois opposed the expansion of slavery into the Western territories? 10. Whom did the southerners chose to be their president after seceding from the North? 11. Which state was the first to secede? 12. What was the idea called that allowed states the opportunity to choose for themselves the course of actions they wished to take?

5. Slide D 13. Name the Supreme Court Chief Justice that helped decide that slaves were property and couldn’t sue for their freedom. 14. Name the person responsible for creating controversy about slavery through their version of southern slavery. 15. California became a free state based on the conditions of this law. Name it. 16. Name the senator from Massachusetts who paid a heavy price for his speech against slavery.

6. Slide E 17. People from this state affected the outcome of the Kansas election by voting illegally within it. 18. Who did the American Party choose to be their candidate during the 1856 election for president? 19. The Northern Whig party became the basis for this political party. Name it. 20. What is the name of the compromise introduced by a Kentucky senator that was supposed to be a last ditch effort to keep the Civil War from happening?

7. Slide F 21. What president was in charge of the country when the southern states began to secede? 22. What is the formal name given to the southern states that seceded? 23. In the election of 1860, the general public believed that this man, not Lincoln, would win the Republican nomination for president. Name him. 24. Who sponsored the Nebraska-Kansas Act?

8. Slide G 25. Who was the first Republican nomination for president in the election of 1856? 26. Name the two participants over a famous series of debates dealing with the issue of slavery. 27. “Hit Him Again!” refers to the actions of what southerner as he turned to violence in Congress to avenge a speech against the south. 28. What is another term that was used to describe a run-away slave?