Before the War
People
Battles
Vocabulary
Miscellaneous
100
Maine joined as a free state because this state joined as a slave state.
What is Missouri?
100
He was known as the Great Compromiser.
Who is Henry Clay?
100
In 1861, the Confederates fired on this fort, which began the Civil War.
What is Fort Sumter?
100
This was a state torn between the north and the south during Civil War times. They had slaves but did not secede.
What is a border state?
100
These were the two west coast states during the Civil War.
What is Oregon and California?
200
He was Andrew Jackson's Vice President. He believed in states' rights.
Who is John C. Calhoun?
200
This man was the president of the Confederate States of America.
Who is Jefferson Davis?
200
Thomas Jackson received his nickname "Stonewall" during this battle.
What is the Battle of Bull Run?
200
This is the freeing of slaves.
What is emancipation?
200
This is a tax paid on imported goods.
What is a tariff?
300
This act gave Kansas and Nebraska the right to vote on whether to allow slavery in their state.
What is the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
300
He was the Confederate general at the Battle of Bull Run who stopped the retreat.
Who is Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson?
300
No one won this battle. It had the highest number of causalities in one day.
What is the Battle of Antietam?
300
To act against something.
What is resisting?
300
These were the three main regional disagreements between the North and the South.
What are tariffs, states' rights, and slavery?
400
This is the amount of southern families who owned slaves.
What is twenty-five percent, or 1/4?
400
This man debated Lincoln in favor of states' rights.
Who is Stephen Douglas?
400
The South would never again invade the north after this battle.
What is the Battle of Gettysburg?
400
People who worked to rid of slavery were called this.
What is an abolitionist?
400
This Union general set much of the south on fire on his March to the Sea.
Who is William Sherman?
500
Dred Scott argued he should be free because of this.
What is the argument, "I once lived in a free state"?
500
He was the general who turned down Lincoln's offer to command the Union army.
Who is Robert E. Lee?
500
General Grant laid siege to a city during this battle and the Union gained control of the Mississippi River.
What is the Battle of Vicksburg?
500
Something that is done in secret is called this.
What is "underground"?
500
This is how many people lost their lives during the Civil War.
What is 600,000?
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