This man dealt with the Nullification Crisis and served as Jackson’s VP:
Who is John C Calhoun?
100
This was the bloodiest single-day battle of the Civil War.
What is Antietam?
100
Which state was the first to secede from the Union?
What is South Carolina?
100
This was popular to the Confederacy as a travel route because it led the Confederates straight into the heart of Pennsylvania.
What is the Shenandoah Valley?
100
This Supreme Court Case reached the ruling that slaves brought into free territories were still considered slaves when brought back to their slave territories.
What is the Dred Scott Case?
200
He was the leader of the Confederate States of America?
Who is Jefferson Davis?
200
This battle saw the largest number of casualties and is often described the turning point of the war.
What is Gettysburg?
200
By the end of the war, this many total states had joined the Confederacy.
What is eleven?
200
This city in Virginia became the new capital of the Confederacy in 1861.
What is Richmond?
200
This was issued in 1863 as a war measure during the American Civil War, directed to all of the areas in rebellion and all segments of the Executive branch (including the Army and Navy) of the United States.
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
300
He said the following quote in a national speech? “We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting-place for those who here gave their lives, that that nation might live.”
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
300
The Civil War lasted from this year to this year
What is 1861-1865
300
This was the last state to secede from the Union.
What is North Carolina?
300
This house is marked as the place where Lincoln died.
What is the Petersen House?
300
If Lincoln wanted to overrule a decision made by the Supreme Court, he would have to make an amendment to this.
What is the Constitution?
400
He made it clear that he was against the extension of slavery but did not try to eliminate slavery early on in his political career.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
400
Shots fired here marked the beginning of the military aspect of the war.
What is Fort Sumter?
400
The original capital of the Confederate States of America was located here (city, state).
What is Montgomery, Alabama?
400
The First Bull Run Battle happened in this Virginia city in which Federal troops were forced to flee because of the Confederacy.
What is Manassas?
400
This allowed two new territories to decide for themselves whether they would become slave or free territories.
What is the Kansas/Nebraska Act?
500
This senator from South Carolina beat a fellow senator because of the "Crime Against Kansas" speech.
Who is Preston Brooks?
500
Approximately this many Americans died in the Civil War.
What is 620,000?
500
This state seceded shortly before Christmas in 1860.
What is South Carolina?
500
The largest battle in the Civil War’s Mississippi Valley Campaign happened in this city and sparked a Union victory.
What is Shiloh?
500
This gave individual settlers 160 acres of western land if they promised to live on the land and improve it by farming and building a house.