Causes
Slavery
Leaders
Battles
War Geography
Miscellaneous
100

In the case of Dred Scott, the Supreme Court ruled...

He was not free and because he was not a citizen could not have a lawsuit at all

100
People who didn’t believe in slavery were called what?
abolitionists
100

Who was the President of the Union, what was his main goal at the start of the war and how did it change  as the war progressed?

Abraham Lincoln and to keep the Union together.

Changed to end slavery 

100
What was the first battle that began the Civil War?
Fort Sumter
100
In what part of the US were more battles fought: the North or the South?
South
100

During what decade did the Civil War take place?

1860s

200
Who raided Harper’s Ferry?
John Brown
200

Which was the first Compromise to deal with the issue of slavery that said any state that comes in as a slave state must have a partner state come in as a free state and created the 36-30 line that was designed for all state above it to be free and below it to be slave.

The Missouri Compromise 

200

Who was the major Union General at the conclusion of the war?

Ulysses S. Grant

200
What battle was considered the “turning point” of the war?
Gettysburg, PA
200
The Union represented the __________ part of the US and the Confederacy represented the ________ part.
Northern; Southern
200

Most Civil War soldiers died not from battle but from this

Disease

300

Who wroteUncle Tom’s Cabin and why did it anger so many people?

Harriet Beacher Stowe and Because it depicted the evils of slavery

300

What about the northern economy made slavery less necessary and how could they have considered hypocritical?

The north was more industrial and didn't have large plantations yet still benefited from resources harvested by enslaved people

300

Who was the major Southern General?

Robert E. Lee 

300
What was the bloodiest single day in the Civil War?
Antietam
300
Who won the Civil War?
The Union (North)
300

Feeling that their state's rights were in jeopardy was a belief of which side before the Civil War started?

The South/Confederacy

400
Why did John Brown raid Harper’s Ferry?
He wanted to steal weapons to start an anti-slavery rebellion
400
What about the southern economy made slavery seem necessary?
They were primarily agricultural and needed labor to help grow crops
400
What was the title of the speech Lincoln gave to free slaves?
The Emancipation Proclamation
400

What was the name of the union strategy to destroy not just the south's soldiers but all its land, infrastructure and resources?

Total War

400
What were some effects of the war on the South?
Cities, buildings, and plantations were burned and destroyed, slaves were freed in the former Confederacy
400

“You have an oath registered in heaven to destroy the government, which I shall have the mostsolemn one to preserve, protect, and defend it.” 

Who said this and what speech was it a part of?

Abraham Lincoln, his first Inaugural Address

500
Besides slavery, what other major issue increased tensions between the Union and Confederacy?
The issue of states' rights
500

Which Act or Law gave people Popular Sovereignty when it came to states entering the Union?

The Kansas-Nebraska Act

500

According to the Gettysburg Address, "A great task still remained" before the country. What was it and how did this change the purpose of the war?

To make a America a country where all people are free and now the war was about a new birth of freedom for the nation as opposed to just bringing the South back

500
What was one of the last battles of the Civil War where the Confederacy surrendered?
Appomattox Courthouse
500

The battle that was the turning point for the war in the West along the Mississippi River

The Battle of Vicksburg

500

President Lincoln disliked this Commander of the Union army. Who was it and why?

General McClellan because he was too cautious

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