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Battles
Misc.
3.01-3.02
100
He shot Lincoln at Ford's Theater on April 14, 1865; escaped by jumping on stage (breaking his leg) and fleeing on a waiting horse; was found hiding in a barn and refused to come out; so the barn was burned to the ground
Who is John Wilkes Booth?
100
A three-minute address by Abraham Lincoln during the Civil War at the dedication of a national cemetery on the site of the Battle of Gettysburg (November 19, 1863)
What is the Gettysburg Address?
100
The site of the opening engagement of the Civil War; Congress declared war on the Confederacy the next day
What is Fort Sumter?
100
Lincoln believed that anti-war Northern Democrats harbored traitorous ideas and he labeled them as poisonous snakes waiting to get him
What are Copperheads?
100
Nickname for the state that resulted after pro-slavery and anti-slavery forces began fighting over the slavery issue
What is Bleeding Kansas?
200
General of Confederate forces during the Civil War; surrendered Confederate forces to Grant at Appomattox Courthouse
Who is Robert E. Lee?
200
U.S. General-in-Chief Winfield Scott's plan to defeat the Confederacy: blockade the southern and eastern coasts, seize control of the Mississippi River to break the Confederacy in two, and then strike from all sides at once
What is the Anaconda Plan?
200
The first major battle of the Civil War; it showed that both sides were ill-prepared and that the war would not be over quickly
What is the 1st Battle of Bull Run/Manassas?
200
Approximately 180,000 escaped slaves and freemen served in Union Army
What is African-American Participation?
200
This required all citizens in the United States to assist in the return of runaway slaves
What is the Fugitive Slave Law?
300
Commander of Union forces during the Civil War; accepted Lee's surrender at Appomattox Courthouse
Who is Ulysses S. Grant?
300
issued September 22, 1862 afte rthe Northern victory at the Battle of Antietam; Lincoln freed all salves in the states that had seceded BUT Lincoln had no power to enforce the law
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
300
General Lee led his army into Maryland hoping to win the battle for the Confederacy and gain the support of Britain; Resulted in the bloodiest single day of the war; Lee lost and retreated to Virginia
What is Antietam?
300
Candidates were Abraham Lincoln and George McClellan; Lincoln easily won with 212 Electoral votes to McClellan's 21; Lincoln had also fired McClellan as commanding general of the Union Troops
What is the Election of 1864?
300
The name of a book written by Harriet Beecher Stowe which further divided the North and South over the issue of slavery
What is Uncle Tom's Cabin?
400
Confederate general known for his swift strikes against Union forces; died of pneumonia after being shot by one of his own men at the Battle of Chancellorsville
Who is Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson?
400
Lincoln suspended this writ which states that a person cannot be arrested without probable cause and must be informed of the charges against him and be given an opportunity to challenge them; throughout the war, thousands were arrested for disloyal acts
What is the Writ of Habeas Corpus?
400
This battle was considered the bloodiest battle of the war and a major turning point; The South invaded the North and lost; France and Great Britain would not come in on the side of the Confederacy
What is Gettysburg?
400
Location of Confederate General Lee's surrender to Union General Grant ending the war
Where is Appomattox Courthouse?
400
A resolution by Henry Clay that temporarily settled the slavery issue by admitting California as a free state and creating a stronger Fugitive Slave Act
What is the Compromise of 1850?
500
Early Union army leader in the Civil War; ran against Lincoln in the election of 1864
Who is George McClellan?
500
Stephen Douglas' idea that people in a territory have the power to prohibit slavery by refusing to pass local laws necessary to make a slave system work
What is the Freeport Doctrine?
500
The path through the South from Chattanooga to Atlanta, Savannah, Bentonville, and Durham in which a campaign of total war was waged
What is Sherman's March?
500
Chosen as president of the Confederacy in 1861
Who is Jefferson Davis?
500
The Supreme Court case that ruled Congress could not prohibit slavery in any federal territory, therefore nullifying the Missouri Compromise
What is Dred Scott v. Sanford?
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