Slavery
This was the cause and reason for the American Civil War.
This was the first state to secede from the American Union shortly after the election of Abraham Lincoln to the Presidency.
What is South Carolina?
This is the newly-formed political party that Lincoln was the poster-boy for.
What is the Republican Party?
This is the first official battle of the Civil War, where Congressmen and their families picnicked on the hillside to watch.
What is the First Battle of Bull Run?
This is the famous, super-short speech delivered by President Lincoln a few months after a famous battle in Pennsylvania in 1863.
What is the Gettysburg Address?
This is the name of the document that freed all slaves living in the American south in 1863
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
This is the side that had the advantage when it came to rail transportation.
What is the Union (North)?
This is what Lincoln resupplied Fort Sumter with in the spring of 1861.
This is the battle in Pennsylvania that became the turning point for the Union forces in 1863.
What is the Battle of Gettysburg?
This is the name of President Lincoln's assassin.
Who is John Wilkes Booth?
Freed Black men were not allowed to do this in the first half of the Civil War.
What is join/fight in the Union army?
This is the event that started the Civil War of the United States.
What is the firing on Fort Sumter?
This was Lincoln's stance on the issue of slavery when he was running for President in 1860.
What is his desire to stop its spread only?
This is the battle wherein Union general Grant laid siege to a fort along the Mississippi River, cutting the Confederacy in half.
What is the Battle of Vicksburg?
This is the exact location wherein Confederate general Lee surrendered to Union general Grant.
What is the Appomattox Courthouse?
This is the Constitutional amendment that legally ended the practice of slavery in the United States (except as a punishment for crime).
What is the 13th amendment?
This is at least one of the five border slave states that remained with the Union during the Civil War (double points if you can name all five).
What are Kentucky, Delaware, Maryland, Missouri, and West Virginia?
This is the location of President Lincoln's assassination in 1865.
This is the number of days the Battle of Gettysburg lasted.
What is three?
This is what made white Union soldiers fully support the complete destruction of slavery.
What is witnessing the horrors of slavery while fighting in the south?
This is the date on which the Emancipation Proclamation took effect.
What is January 1, 1863?
These are the new types of naval ships that were excellent in forming blockades and ramming other ships.
What are ironsides?
What Constitutional right did President Lincoln suspend (with Congress's approval) during the Civil War?
What is habeas corpus?
What is more than fifty thousand (50,000)?
This is the English translation of the Latin phrase that Lincoln's assassin shouted from the stage of Ford's Theatre after shooting him in the head.
What is "thus always to tyrants?"