CAUSES
KEY FIGURES
BATTLES
POLITICAL ISSUES
MISCELLANEOUS
100
Refers to the land acquired from the Mexican War which further divided the North and the South
What is the Mexican Cession?
100
The president of the Confederate States of America
Who is Jefferson Davis?
100
The first major battle of the Civil War
What is the Battle of Bull Run? (Manassas)
100
What Missouri, Kentucky, Delaware, and Maryland are referred to as
What are border states?
100
The Confederate ironclad ship the Confederates blew up
What is the Virginia or Merrimack?
200
The part of the Compromise of 1850 that angered the North
What is the Fugitive Slave Act?
200
This Union general ran against Lincoln in 1864
Who is George McClellan?
200
The bloodiest single day of the Civil War
What is Antietam?
200
Another name for Northern Democrats who were among Lincoln's most notable political opponents
Who are the Copperheads?
200
The battle in which Lee's battle plans were found wrapped around some cigars at an abandoned campsite
What is Antietam?
300
SC followed by 6 other southern states seceded from the Union in protest of this event
What is the election of Lincoln in 1860?
300
The term that describes "Sherman's march on Atlanta." (type of war tactic or strategy)
What is total war?
300
A turning point battle because it ended any hope the South had of successfully invading the North
What is Gettysburg?
300
This legally abolished slavery.
What is the 13th Amendment?
300
Another name for the Merrimack
What is the Virginia?
400
The Civil War began with this event
What is the Confederate attack on Fort Sumter?
400
Ulysses S. Grant's nickname
What is "Unconditional Surrender?"
400
The battle that split the South into two
What is Vicksburg?
400
The tactic/method used by Lincoln to control the border states
What is martial law? Or, suspending the writ of habeas corpus?
400
This event, two months before the Election of 1864, signaled to everyone that Union victory was within reach and Lincoln was elected to a second term
What is Sherman's march on Atlanta?
500
This event earned its name from clashes over slavery
What is "Bleeding Kansas?"
500
The general credited with the Anaconda Plan
Who is General Winfield Scott?
500
Stonewall Jackson was accidentally shot by Confederate troops from North Carolina
What is the Battle of Chancelorsville?
500
Affirmation of Lincoln's desire to see the Union survive and the nation reunited
What is the Gettysburg Address?
500
The location of the surrender of the Confederates when Grant and Lee met
What is Appomattox Courthouse?
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