Survivor Can your team outwit, outplay and outlast your opponents to be the ultimate Survivor?
Meet the Tribes Free Soil Republicans
Immunity Use your immunity idol to pass on a question or challenge. You must surrender the idol once it is used.
Challenges Each time you get a question right, you get a challenge and a chance at bonus points.
Challenge Bonus Points You depend on the other tribes to vote for your challenge solution. They will lose points for teaming up unfairly.
The Final Challenge The secret final challenge will be revealed at the end of the game for additional points. Good Luck Survivors!
Question One Which political party was formed in 1848 for the purpose of banning slavery in western territories?
Answer One Free Soil
Challenge One The Compromise of 1850 declared Congress unable to ban slave trade between slave states. True or False?
Question Two Who was a pro-slavery person who rode from Missouri to Kansas to battle anti-slavery forces?
Answer Two Border Ruffian
Challenge Two Clay proposed admitting Missouri as a free state and Maine as a slave state. True or False?
Question Three What agreement helped ensure a balance of slave and free states for almost 30 years?
Answer Three Missouri Compromise
Challenge Three Uncle Tom’s Cabin heightened tensions between North and South. True or False?
Question Four How were Free Soil and Republican parties alike?
Answer Four Both wanted to keep slavery out of the western territories.
Challenge Four Northerners respected the Fugitive Slave Act. True or False?
Question Five To what territory did the Missouri Compromise apply?
Answer Five Lands in the Louisiana Purchase
Challenge Five What led to violence in Kansas in 1855?
Question Six How did the Civil War begin?
Answer Six Confederate troops attacked Fort Sumter, SC
Challenge Six What effect did Lincoln’s election in 1860 have on national unity?
Question Seven Give an example of popular sovereignty.
Answer Seven CA voters approved a state constitution that banned slavery.
Challenge Seven Who is someone who sacrifices his life for his beliefs?
Question Eight What was the effect of the Dred Scott v. Sandford decision?
Answer Eight It reversed the Missouri Compromise.
Challenge Eight John Brown was an abolitionist. True or False?
Question Nine What law divided one large territory into two territories?
Answer Nine Kansas-Nebraska Act
Challenge Nine Regional attitudes toward slavery decided the 1860 presidential race outcome. True or False?
Question Ten What is a runaway person called?
Answer Ten Fugitive
Challenge Ten The Wilmot Proviso attempted to ban slavery in the Mexican Cession. True or False?
Question Eleven What is the significance of Ft. Sumter, SC?
Answer Eleven Confederates fired the first shots of the Civil War there.
Challenge Eleven John Brown led a successful slave revolt. True or False?
Question Twelve What issue led to the Compromise of 1850?
Answer Twelve Admittance of CA to the Union gave free states an advantage over slave states.
Challenge Twelve Lincoln was well-known despite losing the Senate race to Douglas. True or False?
Question Thirteen Who was angered by the Dred Scott decision?
Answer Thirteen Free African Americans
Challenge Thirteen In 1848, the legality of slavery had to be decided in what lands?
Question Fourteen What is conflict between different sections of the same country called?
Answer Fourteen Civil War
Challenge Fourteen The folk song, John Brown’s Body, outraged Southerners. True or False?
Question Fifteen Who would say, “We don’t respect this law, and we won’t obey it.” about the Fugitive Slave Act?
Answer Fifteen Northerners
Challenge Fifteen The goal of the Free Soil party was to help runaway slaves reach freedom. True or False?
Question Sixteen Who learned that he was still a slave even though he moved with his owner to a free state?
Answer Sixteen Dred Scott
Challenge Sixteen The Compromise of 1850 banned slavery in New Mexico and Utah. True or False?
Final Challenge What led to the formation of the Republican Party in the 1850s?
Congratulations! You have survived!