Battles
This battle is considered the inciting incident of the Civil War.
What is Fort Sumter?
This dude cited popular sovereignty as a reason for canceling the deals made in the Missouri Compromise.
Who was Stephen Douglas?
This landmark court case effectively ruled that black people could never and would never be "people" in the eyes of the United States.
What is the Dred Scott vs Sandford case?
This 1863 bill by President Lincoln freed all enslaved people in Confederate States.
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
The Union printed these as currency during the war.
What are greenbacks?
This battle turned away the Confederate's advance into the North, and remains the deadliest day on American soil in History, as 51,000 Union and Confederate soldiers died.
What is Gettysburg?
This dude won key battles in the South before dying by friendly fire.
Who is Stonewall Jackson?
Lincoln won more of these in the election of 1860, which enraged South Carolina and caused them to secede.
What are electoral college votes?
This amendment guarantees that no person in the Union will ever be held in bondage again.
What is the Thirteenth Amendment?
The Union used one of these (an economic policy tool) to prevent the sale of Confederate agricultural products.
What is an embargo?
This was the last victory needed to secure the Union's control over the Southern Mississippi River.
What is the Battle of Vicksburg?
This dude was criticized by the Union public for his high-casualty battle strategies.
Who is Ulysses S. Grant?
Present in the colonies since the beginning, this was originally a function of geography, but over time became one of economics, politics, and even race.
What is sectionalism?
Because of this late-phase war tactic by the Union, the South was complete decimated in the early years of reconstruction.
What is "total war"? (scorched earth)
The victory at Vicksburg cut these three confederate states off from the main body.
Who are Texas, Arkansas, and Louisiana?
Stonewall Jackson was killed in friendly fire after this Battle.
What is Chancelorsville?
This dude switched sides and ran against Lincoln as a Democrat in 1864.
Who is George McClellan?
This particular element of the Compromise of 1850 enraged Northerners who were now being asked by the government to participate in Slavery.
What was the Fugitive Slave Act?
These two countries had difficult ethical questions to answer after the war, after they avoided supporting the Union cause due to high demand for cotton.
Who are Britain and France?
In the mid-19th century, communication increased rapidly due to the proliferation of this key invention.
What is the telegraph?
A key Union victory at this battle gave Lincoln the confidence he needed to issue the Emancipation Proclamation, freeing the South's enslaved.
What is the Battle of Antietam?
This dude surrendered to General Grant and the Union Army at Appomattox Courthouse.
Who is Robert E. Lee?
This was a key factor in the war strategies of both sides. It involves dividing complex tasks into simple steps, creating an easily-replicable process, and then making both parts and labor rapidly replaceable.
What is industrialization?
This Black holiday celebrates enslaved Texans finally learning of their freedom nearly two years AFTER Emancipation occurred.
What is Juneteenth? (June 19th)
She was a battle medic who founded the American Red Cross in 1888.
While neither won, the battle between these two Ironclads inspired both sides during the early period of the Civil War.
What were the Monitor and the Merrimack (a.k.a. Virginia)?
These three dudes ran against Lincoln in 1860.
Who are Douglas, Bell, and Breckenridge?
The secession of these 11 states led to the Union declaring a war to preserve itself.
Who are TX AR MI AL GA FL SC NC TN VA & WV?
These 3 Amendments prevent bondage in the United States, grant citizenship to all freed people, and guarantees suffrage to all free Black men.
What are the 13th, 14th, and 15th amendments?
The Union's plan to secure control of the Mississippi included victory at these three key battles.
What are Memphis, New Orleans, and Vicksburg?