Important Peeps

Question 1

Guy in Supreme Court

Answer 1

John Marshall

Question 2

Black lady who helped escaped slaves

Answer 2

Harriet Tubman

Question 3

This person made sooooooo many compromises

Answer 3

Henry Clay

Question 4

President from MA who made a higher tariff and was against slavery

Answer 4

John Quincy Adams

Question 5

Tough general man guy who was elected in 1832

Answer 5

Andrew Jackson

Question 6

He got the tariff reduced by 10%

Answer 6

Henry Clay (the compromiser who just had to be liked by everyone)

Question 7

He has a city in Liberia named after him

Answer 7

James Monroe (the city’s called Monrovia)

Question 8

This lady’s father was a preacher and she wrote Uncle Tom’s Cabin which talked about how cruel slavery was and it was a huge seller in the North and Britain and increased anti slavery

Answer 8

Harriet (like the Tub man)
Beacher (this reminds me of a whale)
Stowe (stove?)

Question 9

He started the American Anti Society of Slavery

Answer 9

William Lloyd Garrison

Question 10

He was an escaped salad and an excellent speaker

Answer 10

Fredrick Douglas

Question 11

She was a black lady against slavery (no duh) and a huge spokeswomen for women’s right (also a woman)

Answer 11

Sojourner Truth

Question 12

He rose up and killed 65 white people and then failed and 56 slaves were killed

Answer 12

Nat Turner (Nats keep landing on me as I type this because I’m outside on a rock but I keep swatting them away so you could say they’re failing like he did)

Question 13

He offered $120 million dollars to Spain for Cuba and upset the north because Cuba has lots of slaves

Answer 13

Franklin Pierce

Question 14

Liked popular sovereignty and was a democrat

Answer 14

Stephen Douglas (from Illinois)

Question 15

He was an insane abolitionist who hacked people to death

Answer 15

John Brown (like the Chicago Browns where conveniently John was from)

Question 16

Was beat with a cane when he offended Brook’s cousin (I also have in my notes that during this discussion Jeffery said “go for the knees when you beat someone”)

Answer 16

Charles Sumner ( he was an abolitionist)

Question 17

Beat Sumner with a cane

Answer 17

Prescott Brooks

Question 18

Dude who built cotton gin

Answer 18

Eli Whitney

Question 19

“Owner” took him into a free state and he claimed he was free

Answer 19

Dred Scott (did you ever notice how it sounds like dreadlocks?)

Question 20

Dude in Supreme Court in charge of Dred Scott’s case- ruled that slaves were property and could be taken anywhere

Answer 20

Rodger Taney

Question 21

He challenged Stephen Douglas like 7 times and beat him in the 18?? Election

Answer 21

Abe Lincoln

Question 22

Started the Harper’s Ferry Raid (capture guns for slaves and have a big rebellion) but it failed and he was hung

Answer 22

John Brown

Question 23

Who is the president of the confederacy?

Answer 23

Jefferson Davis

Question 24

Secretary of State

Answer 24

William Seward

Question 25

Secretary of Treasury

Answer 25

Salmon P Chase

Question 26

Attorney general

Answer 26

Edward Bates

Question 27

Secretary of war for Lincoln

Answer 27

Edwin Stanton

Question 28

Fought in battle of bull run and won, shot by his own troops

Answer 28

Stonewall Jackson

Question 29

In charge of Union army but didn't like to attack

Answer 29

George Mclouain

Question 30

Most important confederate general, won battle of bull run, surrendered April 9th

Answer 30

Robert E. Lee

Question 31

Won battle of Gettysburg for Union

Answer 31

George Mead

Question 32

Won battle of Vicksburg for Union and was in charge of the army of the platonic

Answer 32

Ulysses S. Grant

Question 33

Union general who destroys Georgia and captures Atlanta in 1864

Answer 33

William Sherman

Question 34

Had four kids who all died, suffered mental trauma

Answer 34

Mary Todd Lincoln

Question 35

Killed Lincoln

Answer 35

John Wilkins Booth

Question 36

Wrote a historical fiction about life in the south (it was very pro south)

Answer 36

Margaret Mitchell

Question 37

People I haven't mentioned

Answer 37

John bell John Breckenridge John Fremont

Question 38

Guy who replaced Lincoln and was southern

Answer 38

Andrew Johnson

Question 39

Name of president before me (Lincoln) he was a southern sympathizer before civil war

Answer 39

James Buchanan

Question 40

Republican radical from Pennsylvania

Answer 40

Thaddeus Stevens

Question 41

Name of 1876 election winner

Answer 41

Hayes

Question 42

Was in charge of the 54 Massachusetts and attacked fort Wagner

Answer 42

Robert Gould Shaw

Question 43

Doctor who cured John Wilkes Booth

Answer 43

Samuel Mudd