Who?
Did What?
When?
Where?
Why?
100
Abraham Lincoln
What is the name of the president of the United States during the Civil War?
100
Took over stockade at Harper's Ferry and was hung for treason.
Who is John Brown?
100
The years of the Civil War
What is 1861-65
100
The first shots of the Civil War?
What is Fort Sumter?
100
Main reason for southern secession from the Union.
What is states' rights?
200
Robert E. Lee
What is the name of the leader of the Confederate forces?
200
Sued for his freedom and was told he was just property...made Missouri Compromise unconstitutional and said slavery was OK anywhere in the U.S.
What is Dred Scott v Sanford?
200
Vicksburg, Gettysburg, Gettysburg Address
What is 1863?
200
Split the South into two; Big win for the North after a three month siege and gave North control of Mississippi River
What is the siege of Vicksburg?
200
Believed in total end of slavery, part of Bleeding Kansas, raided stockade at Harper's Ferry
What is the reason John Brown is remembered?
300
Ulysses S Grant
What is the name of the general in charge of the Union forces?
300
Uncle Tom's Cabin
What is Harriet Beecher Stowe's masterpiece that changed America's mind about slavery?
300
Lee's surrender at Appomattox, Lincoln's assassination
What is 1865?
300
3 day battle that was turning point for Union forces; Southern troops led by Lee were never able to invade the North again
What is Gettysburg?
300
Southern demand for Northerners to return runaway slaves
What is Fugitive Slave Law?
400
Jefferson Davis
What is the name of the President of the Confederate States of America during the Civil War?
400
Frederick Douglass, Horace Greeley, William Lloyd Garrison, Grimke Sisters
Who are major abolitionists before and during the Civil War?
400
1863 document that freed slaves in Confederate States
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
400
The site of General Lee's surrender to General Grant
What is Appomattox Court House?
400
Hope that slaves would run away and come north to fight the South; or take up arms against slaveowners...the document
What is Emancipation Proclamation
500
The 54th Brigrade and Robert Gould Shaw
What is the name of the 1st African American unit in the U.S. Army and its commander?
500
South Carolina, Georgia, North Carolina, Virginia, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Texas, Arkansas, Tennessee, Florida
What is states that seceeded from the United States and formed the Confederate States of America?
500
firing at Fort Sumter...beginning of Civil War
What is 1861?
500
Where Lincoln said..."a government of the people, by the people, for the people shall not perish from the earth."
What is Gettysburg?
500
Caused Southern hysteria over slaves rioting
What is Nat Turner revolt?
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