Causes of
Slavery
Battles
Leaders
Miscellaneous
100
This was "king" and the main topic of conversation in the South.
What is cotton?
100
This made it a crime to teach enslaved people how to read or write.
What are slave codes?
100
This fort was fired on by the Confederacy and started the Civil War.
What is Fort Sumter?
100
This person was President of the United States during the Civil War.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
100
This person was the most famous underground railroad conductor.
Who is Harriet Tubman?
200
This was the first territory to shed blood over slavery and got the nickname "Bleeding _____________?"
What is Kansas?
200
This was a network of escape routes used to free enslaved people.
What was the Underground Railroad?
200
This three day battle caused the most deaths of any battle in the Civil War.
What is Gettysburg?
200
This person got the nickname "Stone Wall" for standing up to the North during the Battle of Bull Run.
Who is Thomas Jackson?
200
This person invented the cotton gin.
Who is Eli Whitney?
300
Southerners said they were defending this in the Civil War.
What is "their way of life?"
300
According to this, a person could be fined or imprisoned for aiding fugitive slaves.
What is the Fugitive Slave Act?
300
In the west, both sides wanted to gain control of this river.
What is the Mississippi River?
300
Because of his impressive victories, Lincoln made this man commander of all Union Armies.
Who is Ulysses S. Grant?
300
This is what it was called when the Southern States left the Union.
What is secession?
400
This was a plan to prohibit slavery north of the 36*30' N Latitude line.
What is The Missouri Compromise?
400
This person sued for his freedom because he lived in a free state before returning to a slave state.
Who is Dred Scott?
400
This was the first major battle of the Civil War.
What is the Battle of Bull Run?
400
This man was the leader in charge of the Confederate Army.
Who is Robert E. Lee?
400
This was the first state to secede from the Union.
What is South Carolina?
500
This book by Harriet Beecher Stowe showed slavery as a brutal, cruel system.
What is Uncle Tom's Cabin?
500
This made removing cotton seeds faster and caused a demand for more slaves.
What is the cotton gin?
500
This was the bloodiest day of the entire Civil War.
What is the Battle of Antietam?
500
This person is famous for his "March to the Sea."
Who is William Sherman?
500
This caused most of the deaths during the Civil War.
What is disease?
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