The Union in Jeopardy Abolitionists Presidents

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Compromises Political Parties

Preludes to War

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Abolitionists 100

Presidents 100

Compromise 100

Political Parties 100

Preludes to War 100

Pot Luck 100

Abolitionists 200

Presidents 200

Compromise 200

Political Parties 200

Preludes to War 200

Pot Luck 200

Abolitionists300

Presidents 300

Compromise 300

Political Parties 300

Preludes to War 300

Pot Luck 300

Abolitionists 400

Presidents 400

Compromise 400

Political Parties 400

Preludes to War 400

Pot Luck 400

Abolitionists 500

Presidents 500

Compromise 500

Political Parties 500

Preludes to War 500

Pot Luck 500

Abolitionists 100

• This abolitionist was hanged for treason when he tried to seize arms in order to lead a slave revolt. His death made him a martyr to many Northerners.

• Who was John Brown?

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Abolitionists 200

• This abolitionist was a former slave who led many other slaves to freedom on the Underground Railroad.

• Who was Harriet Tubman?

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Abolitionists 300

• This abolitionist wrote the novel, Uncle Tom’s Cabin, which enraged Southerners because its brutal portrayal of the institution of slavery.

• Who was Harriet Beecher Stowe?

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Abolitionists 400

• This armory in present-day West Virginia was seized by abolitionists in 1859 in order to provide arms for a slave uprising.

• What is Harper’s Ferry?

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Abolitionists 500

• This law, which would prohibit slavery in all territories gained from the Mexican War, was proposed by a northern abolitionist. The bill bore his name.

• What is the Wilmot Proviso?

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Presidents & Hopefuls 100

• The election of this President in 1860 prompted Southern States to secede, because his name was not even on the ballot in 10 Southern States.

• Who was Abraham Lincoln?

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Presidents & Hopefuls 200

• This President, elected in 1856, was the last democrat to be elected President until New Jersey’s Grover Cleveland was elected president in 1884. He was elected because he had been out of the country and had offended no one with his views on slavery.

• Who was James Buchanan?

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Presidents & Hopefuls 300

• This President was a democrat who supported the Kansas-Nebraska Act and also the pro-slavery Lecompton Constitution in Kansas

• Who was Franklin Pierce?

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Presidents & Hopefuls 400

• This President succeeded Zachary Taylor, who died in Office. He was the last President from the Whig Party. He later ran as the American Party candidate in 1856.

• Who was Millard Filmore?

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Presidents & Hopefuls 500

• This man ran for President in 1860 as a northern Democrat. He campaigned based on the idea of popular sovereignty. He only carried the State of Missouri and 3 electoral votes from New Jersey.

• Who was Stephen Douglas?

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Compromises 100

• This man was known as the Great Compromiser for the numerous bills that he passed in the first half of the 19th century in order to keep the Union together in spite of sectional differences.

• Who was Henry Clay?

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Compromises 200

• This compromise allowed California to enter the Union as the 31st State and the 16th Free State. It also allowed territories gained from the Mexican War to determine their status by popular sovereignty.

• What was the Compromise of 1850?

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Compromises 300

• This law, which required all citizens to assist in capturing and returning escaped slaves, was strengthened as part of the Compromise of 1850.

• What was the Fugitive Slave Act?

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Compromises 400

• Stephen Douglas promoted this law, which would use popular sovereignty to determine the status of two territories. His motivation was to be able to construct a railroad.

• What was the Kansas-Nebraska Act?

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Compromises 500

• In the election of 1860, several candidates proposed the acquisition of this area as a potential compromise to the Southern States.

• What is Cuba?

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Political Parties 100

• This Political Party ran John C Fremont as their first Presidential candidate in 1856.

• What was the Republican Party?

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Political Parties 200

• This political party fractured over the issue of slavery in the early 1850s most of its members later joined the Republican party.

• What was the Whig Party?

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Political Parties 300

• This political party operated almost like a secret society, using secret handshakes and passwords. The party was against immigrants, especially Catholics.

• What was the American Party/Know Nothing Party?

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Political Parties 400

• The goal of the Free Soil Party was to eliminate slavery in these regions.

• What are all U.S. territories?

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Political Parties 500

• One of the Founders of the Republican party was this man who was a staunch abolitionist and editor of a newspaper.

• Who was Horace Greeley?

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Preludes to War 100

• This Supreme Court Decision provoked anger among abolitionists and Free-Soil Party members as it stated that Slaves were property and thus could be taken anywhere.

• What was the Dred Scott Decision?

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Preludes to War 200

• Kansas was known by this term in the late 1850s because of all the violence taking place over the issue of slavery.

• What is “bleeding Kansas”?

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Preludes to War 300

• In this incident supporters of slavery rode into town, burned several buildings and destroyed printing presses of abolitionists, although no one was killed.

• What was the Sack of Lawrence?

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Preludes to War 400

• In this incident John Brown and his followers executed 5 pro-slavery settlers in Kansas.

• What was the Pottawatomie Massacre?

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Preludes to War 500

• These laws were often passed in Northern States, which required lengthy jury trials for those accused of being escaped slaves.

• What were Personal Liberty Laws?

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Pot Luck 100

• This term refered to the withdrawal from the union by a state.

• What is secession?

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Pot luck 200

• This term refers to the prejudice against immigrants practiced by the Know Nothing party.

• What is nativism?

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Pot Luck 300

• This man was the Supreme Court Justice who handed down the Dred Scott Decision.

• Who was Roger B Taney?

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Pot Luck 400

• Stephen Douglass came up with this ideology, that stated that territories could get around the Dred Scott decision by electing local law officials who would not enforce the Fugitive Slave Act.

• What is the Freeport Doctrine?

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Pot Luck 500

• This man was attacked and beaten with a cane in the U.S. Senate for delivering an abolitionist speech which attacked the character of another member of Congress.

• Who was Charles Sumner?

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