Causes
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Honest Abe
Post-Bellum Period
"Potpourri"
100
The first state to secede from the Union.
What is South Carolina?
100
The first official land battle of the Civil War.
What is Bull Run/Manassas?
100
President Lincoln was the first president elected from this political party.
What is the Republican Party?
100

The period of time from 1865 to 1877 was known by this name.

What is Reconstruction?

100
This state separated from Virginia, and was admitted into the Union, at least partially because of the issue of Virginia's secession.
What is West Virginia?
200
The Kansas-Nebraska Act repealed this long-held law regarding the expansion of slavery to new American territories.
What is the Missouri Compromise?
200
This battle, which occurred in Pennsylvania is considered the turning point in the Civil War.
What is Gettysburg?
200
Lincoln debated Stephen Douglas in his famous debates during their race for this political office.
What is Senator from Illinois?
200

The Thirteenth Amendment made this practice largely illegal in the United States.

What is slavery?

200

Abraham Lincoln was assassinated by this name while attending the play Our American Cousin at Ford's Theatre.

Who is John Wilkes Booth?

300
This President annexed Texas, leading to conflict between Northern abolitionists and Southern slaveholders.
Who is James K. Polk?
300
Grant's siege of this city on the Mississippi River helped split the Confederacy into two parts.
What is Vicksburg?
300
This was the political party Lincoln was affiliated with before 1854.
What is the Whig party?
300

This group was founded by former Confederate General Nathan Bedford Forrest and terrorized African Americans throughout the South.

What is the Ku Klux Klan?

300

The 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments to the US Constitution are known collectively by this name.

The Civil War Amendments

400
This author of "Uncle Tom's Cabin" causes a furor by depicting the cruel life of slaves in the South.
Who is Harriet Beecher Stowe?
400
Lee's "Lost Orders" helped lead to Union victory in this battle
What is Antietam?
400
This was Honest Abe's Opponent in the 1864 Presidential Election.
Who is General George B. McClellan?
400
The U.S. government set up this agency to assist freed slaves in getting on their feet after the Civil War.

What is the Freedmen's Bureau?

400

Abraham Lincoln gave this speech during the commemoration of a cemetery for both Union and Confederate soldiers after the North's decisive victory in Pennsylvania.

What is the Gettysburg Address?

500
Radical Abolitionist John Brown was caught after his raid in this town.
What is Harpers Ferry, Virginia?
500
Robert E. Lee surrendered his Army of Northern Virginia in the Court House of this city.
What is Appomattox?
500
Lincoln was born in this state.
What is Kentucky?
500

In 1870, Hiram Revels and Joseph Rainey became the first African Americans elected to this legislative body.

What is the U.S. Congress? (Revels: Senate; Rainey: House of Representatives)

500
The three Presidents, in order, that followed Lincoln.
Who are Andrew Jackson, Ulysses S. Grant, and Rutherford B. Hayes?
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