People
Some Controversial Characters
Compromise/Conflict
Civil War
Reconstruction
100

Someone who is against slavery is called..

What is an abolitionist?

100

Underground railroad worker who helped many enslaved escape to the North

Who is Harriet Tubman?

100
Included California's admission as a free state and a strict fugitive slave
What is the Compromise of 1850?
100
The event most directly linked to the secession of the Southern states
What is the election of 1860 -or- the election of Lincoln
100

Organization set up to help African-Americans after the war by creating schools

What is the Freedmen's Bureau?

200

What reason did Nativists have for disliking the Irish and the Germans? (not jobs)

What is being a Catholic?

200

Person who created the American System

Who is Henry Clay?

200
The idea that residents should vote to decide the question of slavery
What is popular sovereignty?
200

A strategy known as Total War was upheld in the state of Georgia in which they burned buildings. What was this event called?

Sherman's March to Sea

200
The 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments
What is abolish slavery, guaranteed citizenship, granted voting rights?
300
Group that was discriminated against by imposing a miners tax 
Who are the Chinese?
300

Political party opposed to the extension of slavery in the West 

Who are the Free Soilers?

300
The Supreme Court case that excluded African-Americans from citizenship rights in the United States
What is Dred Scott v. Sandford?
300

The victory that turned the tide of the war for the Union and split the confederacy in two

What is Vicksburg?

300

Economic system that emerges in the South after the Civil War and leaves many in debt

What is sharecropping?

400

Senator who proposed the Kansas-Nebraska Act

Stephen Douglas 

400
Bestselling book that fueled hatred for slavery in the North
What is Uncle Tom's Cabin?
400
Political Party created as a result of the Kansas-Nebraska Act
What is the Republican Party?
400

Final battle of the Civil War

What is battle of appomatox courthouse?

400

Which amendment repealed the Dred Scott decision?

What is the 14th amendment?

500

Who was the final leading general for the North during the Civil War?

Who is Ulysses S. Grant

500

The fiery abolitionist who died a martyr in the North and a murderer in the South - increasing hatred. Known for hacking whites in Kansas with broad swords

Who is John Brown?

500

The Dred Scott ruling contradicted the provisions of which compromise?

What is the Missouri Compromise (1820)?

500

After this battle, Lincoln announced his Emancipation Proclamation

What is the battle of gettysburg?

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