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Countdown to Civil War: events and people that contributed to the start of the Civil War.
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the year California became a state and the Fugitive Slave Law was enforced
1793
1850
1820
1831
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the year of Abraham Lincoln's first election as President of the U.S.
1864
1850
1855
1860
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The attempt to control the voting in this new state by abolitionists and pro-slavery men led to
Bleeding Missouri
Bleeding Kansas
Bleeding Nebraska
Bleeding Maine
4
Newspaper publisher, abolitionist, and a leader of the American Anti-Slavery Society ...
William Henry Harrison
Stephen A. Douglas
Daniel Webster
William Lloyd Garrison
5
federal arsenal that abolitionists hoped to seize to arm slaves for a major revolt in the South
Springfield Arsenal
Rock Island Arsenal
Harpers Ferry Arsenal
Allegheny Arsenal
6
Massachusetts senator who was savagely beaten due to his abolitionist beliefs
Stephen A. Douglas
Charles Sumner
Preston Brooks
William Lloyd Garrison
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The term "secede" means to...
break away from
scatter
join
replace
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Anti-slavery novel that helped inform northerners about the evils of southern slavery -
The Liberator
Uncle Tom's Cabin
12 Years a Slave
Djiango Unchained
9
leader of the abolitionists who attempted to seize the arsenal and arm runaway slaves
Nat Turner
John Brown
William Lloyd Garrison
Robert E. Lee
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the year the Kansas-Nebraska Act was passed
1831
1854
1857
1850
11
the year that "The Liberator" was first published
1852
1793
1850
1831
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Southern congressman who viciously attacked an abolitionist senator with his cane
John C. Calhoun
Preston Brooks
Charles Sumner
Daniel Webster
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The Fugitive Slave Law required the return of runaway slaves who were found hiding in ...
the South
all of the United States
the North
Canada and Mexico
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Newspaper published by the American Anti-Slavery Society that urged abolition of slavery ...
The Excavator
The Terminator
The Liberator
Freedom for All
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the right of the people to vote on whether slavery is legal or illegal in their state...
suffrage
popular sovereignty
secession
elections
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the year Nat Turner's Rebellion occurred
1793
1850
1831
1852
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Fear of slave revolts led southern whites to pass strict laws limiting slaves' freedom called
fugitive slave laws
black codes
slave codes
blue laws
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politician who created the Kansas Nebraska Act
Henry Clay
Stephen A. Douglas
John C. Calhoun
Daniel Webster
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Known as "the Great Compromiser," he would help create two compromises that avoided secession.
Stephen A. Douglas
John Brown
Henry Clay
Nat Turner
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Abraham Lincoln belonged to this political party when he ran for president
Democrat
Whig
Independent
Republican
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Author of best-selling, anti-slavery novel that helped stir abolitionist feelings in the North
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Henry wadsworth Longfellow
Herman Melville
William Lloyd Garrison
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This abolitionist would lead Missouri residents into Kansas on a bloody killing spree ...
William Quantrill
John Wilkes Booth
John Brown
Nat Turner
23
the year of abolitionist John Brown's raid on Harper's Ferry Arsenal
1852
1859
1860
1857
24
the year fighting over slavery in "Bleeding Kansas" begins
1855
1850
1852
1854
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Compromise that made California a free state and a stricter Fugitive Slave Law ...
Missouri Compromise
Compromise of 1850
Kansas Nebraska Act
3/5ths Compromise
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Early compromise that created a line to determine whether future states would be free or slave.
Dred Scott Decision
Compromise of 1850
Missouri Compromise
Kansas - Nebraska Act
27
the year "Uncle Tom's Cabin" was first published
1856
1860
1852
1850
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the year of the Dred Scott Decision by the U.S. Supreme Court
1855
1857
1854
1852
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The bloodiest slave revolt in United States history was led by runaway slave and preacher ...
Nathaniel Turner
Solomon Northrup
Frederick Douglas
Harriet Tubman
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Slave who sought freedom and took his case to the U.S. Supreme Court
Charles Sumner
Preston Brooks
Roger Taney
Dred Scott
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The only book published in the 19th century that outsold the anti-slavery novel
Red Badge of Courage
the Bible
Little Women
Moby Dick
32
This law would disregard the Missouri Compromise Line and allow citizens to vote on slavery
Missouri Compromise
Kansas Nebraska Act
Compromise of 1850
Dred Scott Decision
33
This invention was responsible for making slavery a key part of the South's economy.
cotton gin
tractor
spinning jenny
power loom
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The first state to secede from the Union after the election of 1860 was
South Carolina
Maryland
Georgia
Virginia
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southern states begin to leave the United States and form the Confederate States of America
1860
1865
1850
1855
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His election as President of the U.S. led to southern states seceding from the Union
Stephen A. Douglas
Abraham Lincoln
James Polk
James Buchanan
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the year of the Brooks-Sumner feud and attack in Congress
1852
1857
1856
1850
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This inventor would revolutionize cotton production, increasing its value and demand worldwide.
Samuel Colt
John C. Calhoun
Eli Whitney
Roger B. Taney
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The Underground Railroad was a system of "safe" houses with the ultimate destination of freedom
in Texas
in Massachussetts
in Canada
in northern states
40
The southern states seceded from the U.S. and formed their own nation, calling it...
Republic of the Confederacy
Republic of Texas
Republic of Dixie
Confederate States of America
41
the year the Missouri Compromise was passed
1820
1831
1793
1850
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the year the cotton gin was invented and patented
1820
1776
1793
1831
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Pro-slavery, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court who felt slaves were not citizens but property
Roger Taney
John Marshall
Dred Scott
Stephen A. Douglas
