The battle which allowed the Union to take control of the Mississippi river, completing part of the Anaconda Plan.
What is the Battle of Vicksburg.
100
The formal withdrawal of a state from the Union.
What is Secession.
100
An executive order issued by Abraham Lincoln on January 1, 1863, freeing slaves in the states of rebellion. In actuality, it did not free any slaves.
What is Emancipation Proclamation.
100
A secret network of free African Americans and white abolitionists who aided fugitive slaves in their escape to freedom.
What is The Underground Railroad.
200
Author of the novel Uncle Tom's Cabin.
Who is Harriet Beecher Stowe.
200
Lincoln challenged Douglas to a series of debates focused on slavery in Illinois. Douglas believed in popular sovereignty, while Lincoln thought slavery was morally wrong.
What is the Lincoln-Douglas Debates.
200
Individuals (white or black) who rented land out from a plantation owner and paid the plantation owner usually with a portion of the harvest.
What is tenant farming.
200
Laws passed by nine Northern states which forbade the imprisonment of runaway slaves and guaranteed the slaves would have jury trials.
What is personal liberty laws.
200
John Brown led a band of 21 men to start an armed slave revolt by seizing a United States arsenal. No slaves came forward to help.
What is Harper's Ferry.
300
The Missouri slave who went to court to gain freedom because he lived in free territory for a few years. Supreme Court Justice, Roger B. Taney, declared a slave is always a slave.
Who is Dred Scott.
300
What occurred after the Civil War to rebuild the South?
What is Reconstruction.
300
The right of residents of a territory to vote for against slavery.
What is popular sovereignty.
300
A series of congressional measures intended to settle the major disagreement between free states and slave states.
What is the Compromise of 1850.
300
The first ironclad ship battle and the end of wooden fighting ships.
What is Monitor vs. Merrimack
400
Who was the man who assassinated Abraham Lincoln?
Who is John Wilkes Booth.
400
Kansas territory in the years before the Civil War; when the territory was a battleground between pro-slavery and antislavery forces.
What is Bleeding Kansas.
400
All of these could kill far more people than older weapons, which changed military strategy. They were improved version of old weapons.
What is the rifle, minie ball, hand grenades, and landmines.
400
A bill created by the Radical Republicans in July of 1864 which made re-admittance to the Union almost impossible for Southern states. It was pocket-vetoed by Lincoln.
What is the Wade-Davis Bill.
400
Answered questions about their activities with “I know nothing”; mainly middle class protestants; began to edge toward the Republican Party.
What is the Know-Nothing Party.
500
The Union general who graduated from West Point University. Known for being "ruthless."
Who is Ulysses S. Grant.
500
A three day battle known as the turning point of the Civil War.
What is Gettysburg.
500
The government put this in order to help pay for the debts of the Civil War.
What is income tax.
500
A federal law passed mainly to protect the civil rights of African Americans and made it impossible for black codes to be used.
What is Civil Right Act of 1866
500
A statement made by Stephen Douglas in 1858 during the Lincoln-Douglas debates which said any territory could exclude slavery by simply refusing to pass laws supporting it.