Prelude to the Civil War

Question 1

Robert E. Lee

Answer 1

Southern general throughout the entire war.

Question 2

Andrew Butler

Answer 2

was made fun of in congress by Charles Sumner

Question 3

Boarder Ruffians

Answer 3

pro-slavery forces who crossed into Kansas from Missouri

Question 4

Missouri Compromise

Answer 4

divided the country at the 36’ 30’ line

Question 5

Crime against Kansas

Answer 5

Charles Sumner’s speech in congress

Question 6

Harriet Beecher Stowe

Answer 6

wrote uncle tom’s cabin

Question 7

Harpers Ferry

Answer 7

John Brown’s target in Virginia

Question 8

Uncle Tom’s Cabin

Answer 8

anti-slavery novel, written in response to the fugitive slave act

Question 9

Stephen Douglas

Answer 9

Northern Democratic nominee in the election of 1860

Question 10

John Breckenridge

Answer 10

southern democratic nominee in the election of 1860

Question 11

David Wilmot

Answer 11

was against slavery in land bought from mexico

Question 12

Republican Party

Answer 12

party against the expansion of slavery

Question 13

South Carolina

Answer 13

first state to succeed from the union

Question 14

Constitutional Union

Answer 14

party that nominated John Bell in 1860

Question 15

Roger B. Taney

Answer 15

Chief Justice who issued Dred Scott’s ruling

Question 16

Underground Railroad

Answer 16

network of safe houses for fugitive slaves

Question 17

Fugitive Slave Law

Answer 17

the most controversial part of the compromise of 1850

Question 18

Jefferson Davis

Answer 18

president of the CSA

Question 19

Kansas Nebraska Act

Answer 19

Stephen Douglas asked for this from congress in order to make a transcontinental railroad

Question 20

Democratic Party

Answer 20

split when Douglas was asked his opinion on the the Dred Scott case by Lincoln

Question 21

Abraham Lincoln

Answer 21

Republican nominee in the election of 1860