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100
It started with some Southern states doing this "word" which means to separate from the union.
What is to secede?
100
This was the BIG issue (one word) that was argued over and over again and then led to the Civil War.
What was slavery?
100
This person was the President of the United States during most of the Civil War.
Who was Abraham Lincoln?
100
General Grant captured this town in Mississippi late in the war which meant the entire Mississippi River was controlled by the union army. (Hint: think Linda's itchy eyes.)
What was Vicksburg?
100
This was the name for the way slaves were able to sneak out of the South and find their way North.
What was the Underground Railroad?
200
This is the year the Civil War started.
What was 1861?
200
The Democratic party split in the election of 1860 because they could not agree on issues including this big decision.
Who should be their presidential candidate?
200
This person was the commander of the Confederate forces in the South.
Who was General Robert E. Lee?
200
One of the first big battles took place at Manassas Junction in Northern Virginia near a stream, which was also the name of the battle. (Hint: Think two words with the first one being an animal.)
What was Bull Run?
200
This was the "drinking gourd" runaway slaves followed to find their way North to freedom.
What was the North Star?
300
This was the name of the state where the first shots were fired.
What was South Carolina?
300
This person took action over disputes about slavery and planned to seize the U. S. arsenal at Harper's Ferry.
Who was John Brown?
300
This person became the leader of the Union troops after General Winfield Scott retired because he was much younger and a veteran of the Mexican War.
Who was General George B. McClellan?
300
The big sea battle took place between these two ships.
What was the Monitor and the Merrimac, which was renamed the Virginia?
300
This person was the one who led many slaves to freedom during the Civil War.
What was Harriet Tubman?
400
This was the name of the first fort attacked at the beginning of the war.
What was Ft. Sumter?
400
This state became a bloody battleground because of pro-slavery and antislavery supporters.
What was "Bloody" Kansas?
400
This Union leader led a march to the sea while burning everything in his path along the way?
Who was General William Sherman?
400
This battle in Pennsylvania took the lives of 54,807 American soldiers and later Lincoln dedicated a national cemetery there.
What was Gettysburg?
400
The name of this great speech by President Lincoln supposedly freed the slaves on January 1, 1863.
What was the Emancipation Proclamation?
500
This "President" gave the order for General Beauregard to order Major Anderson to surrender the fort.
Who was Jefferson Davis?
500
This was the reason given by the United States Supreme Court when they denied the slave, Dred Scott, to sue for his freedom because his master had taken him to live in two free states before he died.
What was because he was enslaved in a slave state now, and he was not a citizen?
500
This confederate general received his nickname because of how his brigade of men stood (which was like an trying to get them to rally for the Virginians
Who was General Stonewall Jackson?
500
General Lee surrendered to General Grant at a house near this place to mark the end of the war.
What was Appomattox Courthouse?
500
This was a huge debate between Abraham Lincoln and the other candidate running for the Democratic choice in the 1860 election.
What was the Lincoln-Douglas Debate? Steven Douglas
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