Events
This event is what put Lincoln on the map. He lost the senate race, but won the hearts of the Americans.
Lincoln-Douglas Debate
The bloodiest single day in American History.
Battle of Antietam
He was president when the Civil War started.
Abraham Lincoln
This amendment made slavery illegal.
13th Amendment
What is the oldest living land animal?
A 192 year old tortoise named Jonathan
This was an event that John Brown and his men went down to raid weapons from an armory.
Harper's Ferry
Bloodiest Battle of the Civil War
Battle of Gettysburg
Famous abolitionist, he was responsible for the raid on Harpers Ferry.
John Brown
Organized the territories of Kansas and Nebraska and, crucially, repealed the Missouri Compromise, allowing settlers in these territories to decide whether to allow slavery through "popular sovereignty"
Kansas-Nebraska Act
What body part is the only human organ that can fully regenerate itself
Liver
This book was written and is considered one of the causes of the Civil War. It was written by a woman.
Uncle Tom's Cabin
This was when Union General Sherman marched across Georgia destroying farms and railroads to break the South's will to fight.
Sherman's March to the Sea
Wrote Uncle Toms Cabin
Harriet Beecher Stowe
This gave African American men the right to vote.
15th Amendment
What is a part of the body that cannot heal itself?
Teeth
This is when we bought the little bit of land in southern Arizona/New Mexico so that we could build a railroad there.
Gadsden Purchase
This battle was considered Lee's greatest tactical victory. It was fought in Virginia.
Chancellorsville
Got into a series of debates with Lincoln
Stephen Douglas
This freed the slaves in territories that were in rebellion to the Union.
Emancipation Proclamation
What is the hardest bone in the body?
Femur
This was a decision that said that slaves were not citizens so they could not sue in the court.
Dred Scott Decision
This is where the Civil War ended and the Confederates surrendered.
Battle of Appomattox Court House
Was assigned a mission by American President Millard Fillmore to force the opening of Japanese ports to American trade, through the use of gunboat diplomacy if necessary.
Matthew Perry
The act required that slaves be returned to their owners, even if they were in a free state.
Fugitive Slave Law
Napoleon Bonaparte was attacked by a swarm of this animal
Rabbits