Causes of the Civil War

Question 1

Senator from Illinois who proposed the Kansas-Nebraska Act

Answer 1

Stephen Douglas

Question 2

Kansas abolitionist who massacred a pro-slave settlement in Kansas

Answer 2

John Brown

Question 3

Missouri senator that encouraged Border Ruffians to vote in Kansas’s constitutional elections

Answer 3

David Rice Atchison

Question 4

Anti-slavery Kansan who led the 400 person “Army of the North” to move to Kansas

Answer 4

James Lane

Question 5

Anti-slavery Kansans that made raids into Missouri

Answer 5

Jayhawker

Question 6

Pro-slave Missourians that made raids on anti-slavery settlements

Answer 6

Bushwhacker

Question 7

Missourians who illegally crossed into Kansas and voted

Answer 7

Border Ruffians

Question 8

Nickname given to Kansas due to the violence between proslavery and antislavery forces

Answer 8

Bleeding Kansas

Question 9

The event in which Missourians crossed into Kansas to vote illegally

Answer 9

Bogus Elections

Question 10

This event occurred when pro-slave forces surrounded Lawrence cutting off supplies, but departed peacefully after a week

Answer 10

Wakarusa War

Question 11

This event occurred when John Brown led a small group that slaughtered five pro-slave steelers in a small settlement in Northeastern Kansas

Answer 11

Pottawatomie Creek Massacre

Question 12

During this attack, several sites in an anti-slavery community in Kansas were burned by those supporting the proslavery side

Answer 12

Sacking of Lawrence

Question 13

A novel about slavery which was written by Harriet Beecher Stowe. It became bestseller in the north. It made people start to view slavery as more of a moral problem, not just a political conflict.

Answer 13

Uncle Tom’s Cabin

Question 14

An agreement made between supporters of slavery in the south and and opponents of slavery in the north. The agreement included four parts.

Answer 14

Compromise of 1850

Question 15

This was agreement created in 1820 to establish and maintain the balance between free and slave states.

Answer 15

Missouri Compromise

Question 16

Popular sovereignty would be used to decide the issue of slavery in the Kansas and Nebraska territories

Answer 16

Kansas-Nebraska Act

Question 17

Last major violent act in “Bleeding Kansas” time period
11 free-staters kidnapped by pro-slavery men. They were taken to a ravine (Marais des Cygnes River near Trading Post, KS) and shot.
5 killed, 5 wounded, 1 escaped

Answer 17

The Marais des Cygnes Massacre