As part of the Missouri Compromise, Missouri would enter as a slave state and this state would enter as a free state.
What is Maine?
100
Arkansas toothpick.
What is a knife?
100
This was Lincoln's other nickname.
What is the "rail-splitter?"
100
This novel, which became so popular it toured the country in the form of plays, turned many northerners against slavery and enraged southerners.
What is Uncle Tom's Cabin?
100
This was the reason most boys joined the war effort.
What is to get away from their family farm and have a new adventure?
200
Part of the Compromise of 1850 declared that the Utah and new Mexico territories would be open to slavery while this state would be free.
What is California?
200
Gallinipper.
What is a mosquito or biting insects?
200
His Gettysburg Address lasted this long.
What is 2 minutes?
200
This was considered one of the North's strengths as they headed into war.
What is technology?
200
Most boys said this was the most memorable day of their life.
What is their hometown sendoff celebration?
300
The Kansas-Nebraska Act stated that this would be method by which slavery would be determined in these new territories.
What is popular sovereignty (rule of the people; voting)?
300
Housewife.
What is a sewing kit?
300
On January 1, 1863 he issued this.
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
300
Three significant Union victories came in this state.
What is Tennessee?
300
Most young boys (under 18), were admitted to the army to perform this type of role.
What is a musician (drummer or bugler)?
400
Three of the original thirteen colonies that became slave states.
What is Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina, Virginia, Maryland, and Delaware?
400
Goobers.
What are peanuts?
400
This Union general ran against Lincoln in 1864, stating he would end the the conflict.
Who was George McClellan?
400
General Grant believed in this type of war.
What is 'total' war?
400
According to one young soldier, they spent more time doing this than anything else while in the army.
What is marching?
500
the Wilmot Proviso stated that slavery would not be allowed here, ever.
What is the Mexican Cession?
500
Bragg's Body Guard.
What is lice?
500
Lincoln was part of an anti-slavery movement that formed a new political organization called this.
What is the Republican Party?
500
After Missouri requested statehood as a slave state, this amendment, named after its creator, stated that Missouri could join the union only as a free state.