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100

This was the law that required everyone in the North to help recapture escaped slaves. 

The Fugitive Slave Act

100

When violence erupted in Kansas following the illegitimate vote on slavery. 

Bleeding Kansas
100
He won the election of 1860.

Lincoln

100

This didn't directly free any slaves, but did change the direction of the war. 

The Emancipation Proclamation 

100

Women did this during the war. 

Filled many jobs for their husbands, but the most important was nursing. 

100

The purpose of the Gettysburg Address

To dedicate a cemetery. 

100

The day that the last slaves were actually freed. 

Juneteenth 

200

Northern economy prior to the Civil War.

Industrial

200

This was the case where the Supreme Court ruled that slaves were property, not people and therefore could not sue. 

Scott v Sandford or the Dred Scott Case

200

Better motivation, knowing the terrain, didn't actually have to win, better leaders. 

Confederate Advantages

200

This army allowed former slaves to join and fight. 

The North/Union

200

Conscription

Forcing someone to fight in an army. 

200

This group, led by former General McClellan, wanted to end the war however they could. 

Peace Democrats

200

He assassinated Lincoln

John Wilkes Booth

300

Southern economy prior to the Civil War. 

Slave based Agrarian (Farming)

300

He killed some people in Kansas and then raided an armory in Virginia. 

John Brown

300
More people, better weapons/technology, more money, more experience

Union Advantages

300

This prevented European nations from supporting the South.

The Emancipation Proclamation made it clear that the North was clearly anti-slavery. 

300

When money is worth less than it used to be

Inflation

300

The importance of the Siege of Vicksburg

Allowed the Union to control the Mississippi River and split the Confederacy in half. 

300

He took pictures of battlefields, shocking the American people.

Matthew Brady

400

Explain Popular Sovereignty

The people vote on an issue and the majority rules. 

400

These were the people that crossed from Mo into Ks to vote for slavery.

Border Ruffians

400

They were the first state to secede.

South Carolina

400

This was the law that allowed African Americans to fight.

The Militia Act

400

A loan you give the government and they pay back with interest

Bond

400

When you are attacking anyone and everyone

Total War

400

This banned slavery across the country

13th Amendment

500

How was the North complicit in slavery?

Even though the North didn't have many slaves, they continued to perpetuate the slave economy by buying southern products made through slave labor. 

500

This nullified the earlier Missouri Compromise and allowed popular sovereignty in the two states. 

Kansas-Nebraska Act

500

The first, last, and only President of the Confederacy

Jefferson Davis

500

The single deadliest day in American History (Battle)

The Battle of Antietam

500

Habeas Corpus

They have to charge you with a crime within 72 hours or they have to let you go. 

500
The second most important Union General

William Tecumseh Sherman

500

What Booth yelled after shooting Lincoln

Sic Semper Tyrannis (Thus always to tyrants) 

600

The Compromise of 1850 (5 pieces!)

California= Free State

No Slave Trade in DC

Popular Sovereignty in former Mexican territory

Texas gets $10M to give up NM

Fugitive Slave Act is passed

600

The Little Giant- Senator from Il

Stephen Douglas

600

The most successful Union General

Ulysses S. Grant
600

This was Lincoln's justification for the Emancipation Proclamation

War powers allowed him to seize contraband. 
600

Clara Barton and Susie King Taylor

Nurses for the Union

600

Deadliest battle of the War

Gettysburg

600

The play Lincoln was watching when he got capped

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