President elected in 1860 and in 1863 who emancipated slaves by giving the Emancipation Proclamation.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
100
This was the name of the group of people who were against slavery and thought it should end immediately.
What is the abolitionist movement?
100
These allowed Southern states to segregate public facilities.
What are Black Codes or Jim Crowe Laws?
100
This is often said to be the turning point of the Civil War.
What is the Battle of Gettysburg?
100
These are two new technologies used during the Civil War.
What is the minie bullet, rifle, submarine, torpedo, canned food, or photography.
200
Led a revolt on the federal arsenal at Harper's Ferry to steal weapons and arm the slaves.
Who is John Brown?
200
This is the name of the novel written by Harriet Beecher Stowe that focuses on the negative aspects of slavery.
What is Uncle Tom's Cabin?
200
This new addition to the Constitution ended slavery in America.
What is the 13th Amendment?
200
This was a one-day battle and was the bloodiest day in U.S. History.
What is the Battle of Antietam?
200
This is one advantage that the South had at the beginning of the Civil War.
What is more farmland or better military training?
300
Became Lincoln's pivotal General of the Civil War after victory at Vicksburg and accepted Lee's surrender at Appomatox.
Who is Ulysses S. Grant?
300
During the time of westward expansion, people moving out West were fighting over this issue.
What is slavery?
300
This organization helped newly freed slaves adapt to free life by giving them food and clothes, and teaching them basic academic skills as well as job skills.
What is the Freedmen's Bureau?
300
His “March to the Sea” involved burning Atlanta and Savannah to the ground, while freeing slaves on his way to South Carolina.
Who is William Tecumseh Sherman?
300
This was the goal of the Civil War when it first began.
What is to bring the Union back together? (to bring the South back)
400
This was the name of the president of the Confederacy.
Who is Jefferson Davis?
400
His lawsuit versus Sandford determined African Americans were not citizens, returning him to slavery.
Who is Dred Scott?
400
This new addition to the Constitution says that all people born in America are citizens of the United States.
What is the 14th Amendment?
400
Though not a major battle, this is where the first shots of the Civil War were fired.
Where is Fort Sumter?
400
These are three advantages held by the North at the beginning of the Civil War.
What is more railroads, industrial factories, wealth, population, iron production?
500
He was arrested for sitting in the "whites only" section of the bus and when he went to the Supreme Court, they said the arrest was fair because of the "separate but equal" clause.
Who is Homer Plessy?
500
The Civil War begin when the North declared war after the Southern states began to do this...
What is secede or secession?
500
Gave all men, whether white or African American, the right to vote.
What is the 15th Amendment?
500
This was the first major battle of the Civil War.
What is the Battle of Bull Run?
500
These are the two main objectives of the Union's Anaconda Plan.
What is to blockade the ocean and take control of the Mississippi River.