Where did the Confederate's attack to start the Civil War in South Carolina?
Fort Sumter
100
People who didn’t believe in slavery were called what?
abolitionists
100
Who was the conductor of the Underground Railroad?
Harriet Tubman
100
What was the Souths plan to take out the North during the Civil War (Squeeze them to death)
Anaconda Plan
100
A war within in the same country
Civil War
200
Who raided a gun store at Harper’s Ferry, West Virginia?
John Brown
200
What invention sped up the harvesting of cotton and increased the demand for slaves?
Eli Whitney's Cotton Gin
200
Who was the major Union General?
Ulysses S. Grant
200
What battle was considered the deadliest in the Civil War?
Gettysburg
200
These 10 amendments were added to the Constitution to protect people.
Bill of Rights
300
The north put a high taxes on goods for the South. What was the correct word for higher taxes?
Tariff
300
Who was a free slave but their owner passed away. They went to the Supreme Court for their freedom but lost.
Dred Scott
300
Who were two major Confederate Generals? One of the men was fearless and the other signed a letter stating the south surrenders the war.
Robert E. Lee and Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson
300
What was the name of a march that was a path of destruction?
Sherman's March to the Sea
300
The thought that America was claimed from the Pacific Ocean to the Atlantic Ocean?
Manifest Destiny
400
The Election of 1860 elected this man to become president and south elected their own president after they seceded from America. Name the Union president and the confederate president.
Abraham Lincoln and Jefferson Davis
400
Which amendment abolished slavery?
13th amendment
400
What was the title of the famous speech Lincoln gave after a major battle?
The Gettysburg Address
400
During the war, the north was known as Confederates and the south was known as the Union. True or False
False
400
Thomas Jefferson wrote an important document to form a new nation and break away from Britain.
Declaration of Independence
500
Who created the Compromise of 1850 and Missouri Compromise?
Henry Clay
500
Name 2 border states
random
500
Who assassinated Abraham Lincoln?
John Wilkes Booth
500
declared that all enslaved people in areas still fighting against the Union were free.
Emancipation Proclamation
500
A tax on many paper items in the colonies such as newspapers, legal documents, and playing cards