Laws
Causes
Battles
Facts
Reconstruction
100
This was the agreement that kept a balance between slave and free states.
What is Missouri Compromise?
100
This type of person wanted to end slavery.
What is an abolitionist?
100
This was the bloodiest single-day in American history.
What is Antietam?
100
This was one of the best known African American regiments in the Civil War.
What is the 54th Massachusetts Regiment?
100
This organization provided food, clothing, and education to former slaves.
What is the Freedmen's Bureau?
200
The Supreme Court's ruling in this man's case stated that slaves were property and did not have the rights of a citizen.
Who is Dred Scott?
200
This group of people had the most power in Southern life and politics before the Civil War.
Who are plantation owners?
200
The first shots of the Civil War were fired here.
What is Fort Sumter?
200
This amendment freed the slaves.
What is the 13th?
200
This group of Congressmen wanted to protect Freedmen's rights in the South.
Who are the Radical Republicans?
300
This act allowed slaveholders to recapture runaways in the north.
What is the Fugitive Slave Act?
300
John Brown led an attack against the U.S. arsenal at this location.
What is Harper's Ferry?
300
This battle represented the turning point of the war.
What is Gettysburg? (Vicksburg also accepted)
300
This was Abraham Lincoln's reason for going to war against the South.
What is to preserve the union?
300
These three restrictions were attempts by the South to limit the voting rights of African Americans.
What are poll taxes, literacy tests, and grandfather clauses?
400
The Compromise of 1850 allowed this free state into the U.S.
What is California?
400

This author's novel caused many more people in the north to become opposed to slavery.

Who is Harriet Beecher Stowe?

400
The Anaconda Plan called for the north to control both of these areas.
What is the Mississippi River and the coastline?
400
These were two advantages of the Union during the Civil War.
What are railroads, industry, population, or telegraph?
400
The Compromise of 1877 ended Reconstruction for the South. What did the north get out of the deal?
What is the presidency? (Hayes became president)
500
Popular sovereignty led to massive violence in one western territory. This became that territory's nickname.
What is Bleeding Kansas?
500
This was the direct cause of the South seceding.
What is the election of Lincoln?
500

The Monitor and Merrimack (or Virginia) were the first ever American _____________.

What are the ironclads?

500

These were northerners who moved south to take advantage of financial opportunities or get involved in politics.

What are Carpetbaggers?

500
The South was placed under military control as a result of this law.
What are the Reconstruction Acts?
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