This novel by Harriet Beecher Stowe sparked a new wave of abolitionists in the North.
What is Uncle Tom's Cabin
100
This man was president of the United States during the Civil War. His election sparked the first state to secede.
Who is Abraham Lincoln
100
The election of this year caused Southern states to secede from the Union.
What is 1860
100
These two things written by soldiers record the harsh reality of war.
What are letters and diaries
100
This was the political party that sought to give African Americans civil rights after the war.
What is the Radical Republican Party
200
This Compromise in 1820 divided the Louisiana Purchase at the 36°30′ line, where slavery was prohibited above the line with the exception of one state.
What is the Missouri Compromise
200
This U.S. Senator went on to become the first (and only) President of the Confederate States of America.
Who is Jefferson Davis
200
This was the location of the opening confrontation of the Civil War.
What is Fort Sumter
200
This was the kind of combat Civil War soldiers often faced.
What is hand-to-hand combat
200
Robert E. Lee encouraged former Confederates to do this after the war.
What is reconcile and rejoin the United States
300
This is the term for the mini "civil war" that occurred in one western state in 1854-1855.
What is Bleeding Kansas
300
This Union military commander won many victories over the South after he was given control in 1864.
Who is Ulysses S. Grant
300
This was issued after the battle of Antietam and only freed slaves in the states in rebellion.
What is the Emancipation Proclamation
300
Women often faced these things on the home front.
What is poverty and hunger
300
This event allowed Radical Republicans to implement a Reconstruction plan to punish the South.
What is the assassination of Lincoln
400
This Supreme Court case determined that slaves are not citizens and cannot sue in court. It also deemed the Missouri Compromise unconstitutional.
What is Dred Scott
400
This Confederate general of the Army of Northern Virginia opposed secession but fought for the South because he could not fight against his home state of Virginia.
Who is Robert E. Lee
400
This battle is called the turning point of the Civil War.
What is the battle of Gettysburg
400
Women assumed new roles in these areas.
What are agriculture, nursing, and war industries
400
Name the document: "with malice towards none, with charity for all... to bind up the nation's wounds..."
What is Lincoln's Second Inaugural Address
500
This issue ended when President Jackson threatened to send federal troops to South Carolina to collect tariff money.
What is the Nullification Crisis
500
This prominent abolitionist encouraged Lincoln to recruit former slaves for the Union Army.
Who is Frederick Douglass
500
This is the location where Lee surrendered to Grant.
What is Appomattox
500
These two Southern cities were burned during the war.
What are Atlanta and Richmond
500
The Compromise of 1877 opened the door to this period of U.S. history where African Americans were denied full rights of citizenship in many places in the South.