Causes
Beginning of War
People
Battles
Miscellaneous
100
Principle that people in a territory or state would vote directly on issues rather than have their elected representatives decide.
What is popular sovereignty
100
The first state to secede from the Union.
What is South Carolina?
100
A slave who sued for his freedom.
Who is Dred Scott?
100
Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation after this battle
What is Antietam?
100
Abraham Lincoln's political party.
What is Republican?
200
Five bills based on Henry Clay's proposals, intended to end the crisis brewing between north and south states.
What is the Compromise of 1850?
200
The complete name of the seven seceding states.
What is the Confederate States of America?
200
Commander of all Union forces.
Who is Ulysses S. Grant?
200
People from Washington, DC came out to watch this first large battle of the Civil War, thinking it would be entertaining.
What is Battle of Bull Run?
200
The location of Lee's surrender.
What is Appomattox Court House?
300
Law allowing arrest and capture of anyone accused of being a runaway slave.
What is Fugitive Slave Act of 1850?
300
The reason Lincoln didn't at first completely abolish slavery.
What is fear that the border states would secede?
300
General in charge of the Confederate army.
Who is Robert E. Lee?
300
The citizens of this city were under siege for 6 weeks.
What is Battle of Vicksburg?
300
This was instituted to assure a sufficient number of troops for both sides in the Civil War.
What is a draft?
400
The act that proposed that slavery in new territories be decided by popular sovereignty and which undid the Missouri Compromise.
What is the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
400
The battle that started the Civil War.
What is Fort Sumter?
400
A commander who proved to be too cautious.
Who is General George McClellan?
400
Pickett's Charge happened at this battle.
What is Gettysburg?
400
This was instituted for the first time during the Civil War and is still with us today.
What is an income tax?
500
Congress does not have the power to prohibit slavery in any territory and the Missouri Compromise is unconstitutional.
What is the Dred Scott decision?
500
Factories, railroads, population
What are advantages the North had?
500
The author of the Compromise of 1850.
What is Henry Clay?
500
The Hornet's Nest was a Union position at this battle.
What is the Battle of Shiloh?
500
Habeus Corpus
What is a constitutional protection against unlawful imprisonment?
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