The President of the United States during The Civil War
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
100
This was the first fight of The Civil War
What is Fort Sumter?
100
This is what The South leaving The Union was called.
What is Secession?
100
President Lincoln wrote this to declare all slaves in The Confederacy free
What is The Emancipation Proclamation?
100
Characterized by its large farmland and plantations.
What is The South?
200
The General of the Confederate Army
Who is Robert E. Lee?
200
A major turning point in the war, this battle was very brutal and fought for three days in early July.
What is The Battle of Gettysburg?
200
The system under which millions of blacks were bought and sold as property.
What is Slavery?
200
Name given to the "season" when several states seceded from The Union.
What is Secession Winter?
200
Held a larger proportion of the population
What is The North?
300
The President of The Confederacy
Who is Jefferson Davis?
300
This was technically a Union victory, since Robert E. Lee retreated, although some did not view it as such since the Union Army did not "crush" the Confederates.
What is The Battle of Antietam?
300
The "Secession Winter" was a result of this
What is the Election of 1860 or the Election of Abraham Lincoln?
300
This state became the first state to secede in December of 1860.
What is South Carolina?
300
Racism was present here.
What is The North and The South?
400
Served as a scout for The Union Army, was a runaway slave and a major "conductor" for The Underground Railroad
Who is Harriet Tubman?
400
This regiment lost half of their unit during the assault on Fort Wagner.
What is The 54th Massachusetts?
400
Southern slaveholders were wary of this growing movement in The North.
What is Abolitionism?
400
President Lincoln suspended this early on in The Civil War.
What is Habeus Corpus or The Writ of Habeus Corpus?
400
Won the first major battle of The Civil War.
What is The South?
500
The Union general who was fired by Lincoln after the Battle of Antietam.
Who is General McClellan or George B. McClellan?
500
Lincoln said this after the defeat of the Union Army in The Battle of Fredericksburg
What is "If I'm not in hell, I'm close to it."
500
This created new territories in the west in which people would decide whether they would be pro-slavery or anti-slavery, escalating tensions between the two sides.
What is The Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854?
500
Abolitionist John Brown led a raid on this U.S. military arsenal.