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Timeline:  Fill in the missing act, event, group, or person…

Timeline:  Fill in the missing act, event, group, or person to complete this timeline about the causes of the Civil War.  (10 questions – be sure to scroll down.) Word bank: Harriet Beecher Stowe             Roger Taney                           Jefferson DavisJohn Brown                               Preston Brooks                      Charles SumnerAbraham Lincoln                       Stephen Douglas                   Harriet TubmanFrederick Douglass                    South Carolina                       GeorgiaAlabama                                     Uncle Tom’s Cabin                  Ft. NecessityKansas-Nebraska                      border ruffians                        copperheadsscalawags                                  Dred Scott v. Sanford              Gibbons v. OgdenCrittenden Compromise           Wilmot Proviso                       Ft. SumterThe Impending Crisis in the South 1850  –   Compromise of 1850 1852  –   ______[1]______    The publication of this book by Harriet Beecher Stowe was denounced in the South, but became a bestseller in the North.   1854  –   ______[2]______    Stephen Douglas introduced the bill to organize this area west of Missouri and Iowa as territories to facilitate building a trans-continental railroad.   1855  –   _______[3]_____    The name given to the group of people who would cross into “Bleeding Kansas” to help create a pro-slavery government.   1856  –   _______[4]______    This Senator was beaten unconscious after his speech “The Crime Against Kansas.”   1856  –   _______[5]______    This Supreme Court case ruled that the Plaintiff had no right to sue in federal court.   1857  –   Panic of 1857   1858  –    _______[6]_____    Name one of the men who publicly debated for the Illinois Senate seat.   1859  –    _______[7]_____    This man led a raid on Harper’s Ferry.   1860  –    Election of 1860             –    _______[8]_____    This compromise was a last ditch effort to preserve the Union.              –   _______[9]_____    This state was the first to secede two days after the failure of the previous compromise.               –   _______[10]____    The remaining four southern states seceded after Lincoln re-supplied this fort, and southerners viewed it as a hostile act.