People of the south believed that this man, elected president in 1860, favored northerners.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
100
The south was dependant more on cotton and agriculture, while the north was dependant more on this.
What is industry?
100
Year the Civil War began.
What is 1861?
200
The war started here on April 12, 1861, on the coast of South Carolina.
What is Fort Sumter?
200
The navy's of the north and south used ships covered in steel for the first time, these were called this.
What are ironclad ships?
200
People in the north who were against slavery were called this.
What are abolitionists?
200
Eli Whitney invented this, which helped produce more cotton in the south.
What is the Cotton Gin?
200
This is how long people thought the war would last before the first battle.
What is 90 days?
300
This kind of war the South was fighting because the North was coming on to their soil.
What is a defensive war?
300
The plan the North had during the war was called this, because it called for a blockade of southern ports and wanted to cut the south in two.
What is the anaconda plan?
300
Southern states did this because they thought they weren't being respected or heard.
What is seceded?
300
This law held individuals responsible for harboring fugitive slaves even if they were located in non-slave states
What is the Fugitive Slave Act?
300
President Lincoln called for this many volunteers to serve in the army against the south.
What is 75,000?
400
Commander of the Confederate Army.
Who was Robert E. Lee?
400
First battle of the Civil War.
What is the Battle of Bull Run?
400
Passed in 1820, this law prohibited slavery in states north of a certain longitude and latitude, except in Missouri.
What is the Missouri Compromise?
400
Seven states were known as this, because they were slave states but did not declare their secession before the start of the war.
What are border states?
400
Ruling by the army instead of the elected government.
What is martial law?
500
This is the name of the man who led the Union Army, but he was cautious and not aggressive enough in his battles.
Who is George McClellan?
500
General for the Confederacy who earned his name during the first battle of the Civil War because he held his ground.
Who "Stonewall Jackson"?
500
This act allowed Kansas to decide for itself whether it would be a free or slave state (popular sovereignty!)
What is the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
500
This man sued, unsuccessfully, for his freedom. He lost because the Supreme Court said that no person of African American descent could claim citizenship.
Who was Dred Scott?
500
This is the political principle that the state is created by the will or consent of its people, who are the source of all political power.
(Hint: We learned this at the beginning of the year!)