This act of Congress was intended to maintain the balance of slave and free states and settled the question of slavery in Missouri Territory.
What is the Missouri Compromise
100
This side in the Civil War was composed of the Northern states opposed to slavery.
What is the Union?
100
The first battle of the Civil War took place here.
What is Fort Sumter?
100
This is what it is called when a state declares its independence from the United States.
What is secession?
100
This Constitutional Amendment gave the right to vote to all male citizens (including African Americans).
What is the 15th Amendment?
200
The Presidential election of 1860 resulted in the election of this president.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
200
This side in the Civil War was composed of Southern states who wished to protect the institution of slavery.
What is the Confederacy?
200
Confederate victory at this first major battle of the war made the Union realize the war would be much more difficult than expected.
What is Bull Run?
200
This state was the first of the Confederate states to secede.
What is South Carolina?
200
These laws passed by Southern states were intended to limit the Constitutional freedoms of African Americans.
What are Jim Crow Laws?
300
This component of the Compromise of 1850 made it very simple for Southern slave-holders to capture escaped slaves or even capture African Americans who had never been slaves.
What is the Fugitive Slave Act?
300
This individual was President of the United States during the Civil War.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
300
This battle which stopped the Confederate invasion of Northern territory is considered a major turning point in the war.
What is the Battle of Gettysburg?
300
This Constitutional Amendment brought an end to Slavery in the United States.
What is the 13th Amendment?
300
This tenant farming system left many former slaves heavily in debt and trapped in a labor situation very similar to slavery.
What is share-cropping?
400
This reform movement pushed for the end of slavery in the United States.
What is the Abolition movement?
400
Abraham Lincoln asked this General to lead the Union troops, but he remained loyal to the South and commanded the Confederate Army instead.
Who is Robert E. Lee?
400
Union victory in this long siege allowed the North control of the Mississippi River.
What is the Battle of Vicksburg?
400
President Lincoln changed the focus of the war to freeing the slaves when he issued this statement declaring all slaves in Confederate territory free.
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
400
This government agency was meant to assist former slaves with issues like housing, employment, and education.
What is the Freedmen's Bureau?
500
This proposed amendment dealing with slavery in the potential territories to be gained from Mexico sharpened divisions over the issue of slavery.
What is the Wilmot Proviso?
500
This former Senator from Mississippi served as President of the Confederate States of America.
Who is Jefferson Davis?
500
This battle resulted in the bloodiest (highest casualties) single day of combat in U.S. history.
What is the Battle of Antietam?
500
This Constitutional Amendment granted the protections of citizenship to all individuals born in the United States (meant to give citizenship to former slaves).
What is the 14th Amendment?
500
This individual served as the first African American U.S. Senator.