| Sectionalism | ||
| #1 | Why did the U.S. place few restrictions on immigration in the mid to late 1800s? | Immigrants provided the industrial labor source |
| #2 | Who became known as the “Moses” of the Underground Railroad because she freed more than 300 slaves by sneaking them out of the South? | Harriet Tubman |
| #3 | Who was the editor of the Liberator and an outspoken abolitionism in the fight against slavery? | William Lloyd Garrison |
| #4 | Which compromise admitted California as a free state, passed a stricter fugitive slave law, and abolished the slave trade in Washington D.C.? | Compromise of 1850 |
| #5 | Which doctrine states that the voters of a territory should be able to choose whether to be a free or slave territory? | Popular Sovereignty (Self-Determination) |
| Civil War Causes | ||
| #1 | Who murdered pro-slavery supporters during Bleeding Kansas? | John Brown |
| #2 | After Abraham Lincoln was elected president, the Southern states tried to break away from the union, which is known as what? | Secession |
| #3 | Which political party's platform in 1860 included: limits on the expansion of slavery in the territories, a protective tariff, and the completion of a railroad to the Pacific coast? | Republican Party |
| #4 | Who was the author of Uncle Tom's Cabin? | Harriet Beecher Stowe |
| #5 | Which Supreme Court case ruled that, under the protection of the 5th Amendment, a slave could be taken into any territory and remain in slavery? | Dred Scott v. Sanford |
| The Civil War | ||
| #1 | Where did the Civil War begin on April 12, 1861? | Fort Sumter |
| #2 | Which side had the better field commanders during the Civil War? | South (Confederacy) |
| #3 | Who was the president of the Confederate States of America? | Jefferson Davis |
| #4 | What did the First Battle of Bull Run prove to both sides about the war? | It would be longer and more difficult than expected |
| #5 | Lincoln waited for a major victory that came in which battle before he issued his Emancipation Proclamation? | Battle of Antietam |
| Hodge Podge | ||
| #1 | Why was there a massive migration to California in 1849? | Gold Rush |
| #2 | What ended slavery throughout the entire U.S.? | Thirteenth Amendment |
| #3 | Whose expedition was critical in understanding the territory acquired by President Jefferson in the west? | Louis & Clark |
| #4 | Which principle did John Marshall and the Supreme Court create in the case of Marbury v. Madison? | Judicial Review |
| #5 | Why did Abraham Lincoln issue the Emancipation Proclamation? | To weaken the Confederate war effort |
| West | ||
| #1 | Between 1847 and 1853 nearly 16,000 Mormons traveled west to which territory? | Utah |
| #2 | Why did most people head west along the Oregon Trail? | Farm land |
| #3 | In 1803 the national territory nearly doubled as a result of what? | Louisiana Purchase |
| #4 | John O'Sullivan's 1840 announcement that Providence (God) wanted the United States to settle North America from the Atlantic to the Pacific has become known as what? | Manifest Destiny |
| #5 | President Polk’s campaign slogan, “Fifty-four Forty or Fight,” marked the northern boundary of the Oregon Country and British Canada, but what where was the boundary finally set after the election? | 49th Parallel |
| Final Question | |