President of the United States during the Civil War.
Who is Abraham Lincoln.
100
Event that led some states to secede the Union.
What is the election of Abraham Lincoln as president of the United States.
100
Where does the start of the Civil War take place?
What is Fort Sumter.
100
Executive order that freed slaves in the Confederate states.
What is the Emancipation Proclamation.
100
The period of transformation of the South after the Civil War.
What is Reconstruction.
200
Known as "The Great Compromiser."
Who is Henry Clay.
200
The single bloodiest day of fighting in the Civil War (and in American history).
What is Antietam.
200
The state that was admitted as a free state by the Missouri Compromise.
What is Maine.
200
Compromise passed in 1820 that regulated slavery in the western territories of the U.S.
What is the Missouri Compromise.
200
White Southerners who supported Reconstruction.
What are Scalawags.
300
White Southerners who terrorized African Americans.
Who is the Ku Klux Klan.
300
A temporary agency created in March 1865 that gave food and clothes to former slaves and needy whites.
What is the Freedmen's Bureau.
300
Prison camp during the Civil War.
What is Andersonville.
300
Amendment that abolished slavery.
What is the 13th Amendment.
300
Northerners who moved south to improve their situation.
What are Carpetbaggers.
400
The president that ended Reconstruction.
Who is Rutherford B. Hayes.
400
Banned slavery in any territory to be acquired from Mexico in the Mexican War or in the future.
What is the Wilmot Proviso.
400
Where did Robert E. Lee surrender at the end of the Civil War?
What is Appomattox Courthouse.
400
Supreme Court decision that said that African Americans, free or slave, weren't American citizens so they couldn't sue in federal court because they had no standing.
What is the Dred Scott decision.
400
Loyalty to the interests of one's own region of the country.
What is Sectionalism.
500
Author of the "Anaconda Plan."
Who is Winfield Scott.
500
A series of violent political confrontations from 1854-1861 between people that were pro-slavery vs. people that were anti-slavery in a particular border state.
What is "Bleeding Kansas."
500
The battle that was the turning point of the war for the Union.
What is Gettysburg.
500
This act led a group of Northerners to form the Republican Party in 1854.