Question | Answer |
Founder of Pennsylvania colony | William Penn |
Refers to the lanterns placed in a Boston Church warning "The British were coming." | One if by land, two if by sea |
Author of Common Sense | Thomas Paine |
Abraham Lincoln speech | House Divided |
Slave taken into free territory and then returned to slave territory weith his master | Dred Scott |
Ran against Abraham Lincoln for president in 1860 and lost | Stephen Douglas |
His writing favored American independence from Great Britain | Thomas Paine |
John Brown captured here in 1859 | Harpers Ferry |
signal to guide Paul Revere | One if by land, two if by sea |
Ran against Abraham Lincoln for U.S. Senate and won | Stephen Douglas |
Son of a British admiral who converted to the Quaker faith | William Penn |
Known to be friendly to Native Americans | William Penn |
Idea that states could set aside U.S. laws they didn't agree with | nullification |
Author of American Crisis | Thomas Paine |
His court case said African-Americans could not bring suit in court because they could not be U.S. citizens | Dred Scott |
Said the United States could not continue to be half free and half slave | House Divided |
John C. Calhoun of South Carolina favored this doctrine | Nullification |
Abolitionist John Brown tried to take weapons from U.S. arsenal here, but failed | Harpers Ferry |
From a poem by Henry Wordsworth Longfellow | One if by land, two if by sea |
Given land in America to create a Quaker colony | William Penn |
Route used to travel to the west in the 1840s and 1850s | Oregon Trail |
President of the Confederacy | Jefferson Davis |
Said the Missouri Compromise was unconstitutional | Dred Scott |
In 1858, he participated in a series of debates about slavery and other issues | Stephen Douglas |
United States Supreme Court Case | Dred Scott |
U. S. President during the Civil War | Abraham Lincoln |
Date the Civil War began | April 12, 1861 |
First pitched battle of the Civil War | Bull Run, also known as Manassas |
Fired the first shot of the Civil War | Confederate Edmund Ruffin |
Meaning of secede | To leave |