Important People
Battles
Build up to War
Legislation
Miscellaneous
100
This person was the 16th President of the U.S. and in charge of the Union during the Civil War.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
100
The first shots of the Civil War were fired here.
Where is Fort Sumter, South Carolina?
100
This issue had caused trouble between the North and South for years leading up the War. The South claimed they needed this 'peculiar institution' in order to keep their economy going.
What is slavery?
100
This amendment to the Constitution abolished slavery.
What is 13th Amendment?
100
The battle between the Monitor and the Merrimac was a battle of this kind of ships, which were technological advances used during the Civil War for the first time.
What are Ironclads?
200
This person left a career in the US Army to return home to Virgina to lead the Confederate Army during the Civil War.
Who is Robert E. Lee
200
The battle was the 'bloodiest day' of the war.
Where is Antietam?
200
This novel, written by abolitionist Harriet Beecher Stowe, made the topic of slavery a national debate and opened up people's eyes to the horrors of slavery.
What is Uncle Tom's Cabin?
200
Issued by Lincoln during the Civil War, this freed all slaves in the states in rebellion.
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
200
At this battle, called the 'first tail gater' by Mr.Anderson, crowds of people gathered on a hill with picnic lunches to watch the armies fight. The Confederates won, the surprised Union Army scattered and many of the 'tail gaters' were trampled.
What is Battle of Bull Run?
300
This person took over as Commander of the Union Army in 1863 and led Union forces until the Civil War ended.
Who is Ulysses S. Grant?
300
This battle, a Union victory, was considered the turning point of the war. It was fought over 3 days (July1-3, 1863) and over 50,000 casualties.
Where is Gettysburg?
300
One cause of the war was the argument over which was more important- states' right or the federal government. The South thought this was more important and allowed them to voluntarily leave the Union if they chose.
What is States' Rights?
300
Used in the Kansas-Nebraska territories to decide whether the new states would allow slavery or not, this means that the people will decide.
What is popular sovereignty?
300
This is a word that describes someone who is anti-slavery.
What is Abolitionist?
400
This person was the President of the Confederate States of America.
Who is Jefferson Davis?
400
This battle decided control of the Mississippi River. Grant won and effectively cut the South in half.
Where is Vicksburg?
400
Passed in 1820, this law established a boundary for slave and free states at Missouri's southern border (36*30`). It also attempted to keep the balance between the slave and free states by admitting Missouri as a slave state and Maine as a free state.
What is the Missouri Compromise?
400
These unofficial laws were used in the South during Reconstruction to restrict freedmen's rights (jobs, travel, voting, etc)
What are Black Codes?
400
This was the first southern state to secede.
What is South Carolina?
500
This person was a famous Confederate commander who was tragically killed, accidentally, by his own men when they mistook him for the enemy.
Who is Stonewall Jackson?
500
It was here that Grant and Lee met to sign terms of surrender and end the Civil War.
Where is the Appomattox Courthouse?
500
This nickname was given to Kansas after a series of violent confrontations over whether the state would be admitted as a slave or free state.
What is Bloody (or bleeding) Kasnas
500
During Reconstruction, the government created this organization to help freedmen get an education, food, clothes and find a place to live.
What is Freedmen's Bureau?
500
This national cemetary was once the plantation of Robert E.Lee before it was confiscated by the Union Army.
What is Arlington National Cemetary?
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