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The Union in Crisis - Important Figures

Total questions: 14

Worksheet time: 7mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Slaveholding President who ran as a Whig

a)

James Madison

b)

Zachary Taylor

c)

James Buchanan

d)

Abraham Lincoln

2.

First presidential candidate (+ president) for the Free-Soil Party

a)

James Buchanan

b)

Zachary Taylor

c)

Martin van Buren

d)

Stephen Douglas

3.

Famous for the Missouri Compromise and the Compromise of 1850

a)

Daniel Webster

b)

Henry Clay

c)

John Calhoun

d)

Alexander Stephens

4.

Author of "Uncle Tom's Cabin"

a)

Harriet Beecher Stowe

b)

Martin Delany

c)

William Lloyd Garrison

d)

Elijah Lovejoy

5.

Conductor of the Underground Railroad; called "Moses" as she led her people to freedom

a)

Ellen Craft

b)

Harriet Tubman

c)

Harriet Beecher Stowe

d)

Angelina Grimke

6.

16th President of the United States; Elected without a single southern vote

a)

Millard Fillmore

b)

James Buchanan

c)

Zachary Taylor

d)

Abraham Lincoln

7.

33-year old enslaved person who shipped himself to freedom from Richmond, VA to the doorstep of the Philadelphia Anti-Slavery Society

a)

William Craft

b)

Henry "Box" Brown

c)

Frederick Douglass

d)

Nat Turner

8.

President of the Confederate States of America

a)

Stephen Douglas

b)

Dred Scott

c)

Abraham Lincoln

d)

Jefferson Davis

9.

Southern Congressman who said that if the North did not appease the South, the South would secede from the Union

a)

Daniel Webster

b)

John Calhoun

c)

Lewis Cass

d)

Stephen Douglas

10.

Abolitionist from New York who often moved his family around the country to combat slavery; known for a raid he led on Harpers Ferry

a)

John Brown

b)

John Calhoun

c)

Jefferson Davis

d)

William Lloyd Garrison

11.

Senator from Illinois who supported popular sovereignty; ran for President against Abraham Lincoln in 1860

a)

Frederick Douglass

b)

Millard Fillmore

c)

James Buchanan

d)

Stephen Douglas

12.

The President before Abraham Lincoln; Elected largely in part thanks to his VP candidate, John C. Breckinridge

a)

Zachary Taylor

b)

James Buchanan

c)

Millard Fillmore

d)

Abraham Lincoln

13.

Enslaved person who sued for his freedom in the Supreme Court; the court ruled against him

a)

Henry "Box" Brown

b)

William Craft

c)

Dred Scott

d)

Denmark Vessey

14.

President who supported the Compromise of 1850

a)

Abraham Lincoln

b)

Millard Fillmore

c)

James Buchanan

d)

Zachary Taylor