Vocabulary
People
Battles
Various
Acts of Government
100
To withdraw from the Union.
What is secession
100
Abolitionist who led the raid on Harper's Ferry.
What is John Brown
100
First battle of the Civil War
What is Fort Sumter
100
What was the first territory to shed blood in the civil war over slavery?
What is Kansas
100
Law requiring all citizens to catch runaway slaves.
What is Fugitive Slave Act
200
Conflict between citizens of the same country.
What is civil war
200
Earned his nickname after telling his men to hold firm like a stone wall in the Battle of 1st Bull Run.
What is Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson
200
Single bloodiest day in the war.
What is Battle of Antietam
200
Two battles that the Confederacy won
What is Fredericksburg and Chancellorsville
200
The plan that preserved the balance between slave and free states
What is Missouri Compromise
300
Ships enforced with steel.
What is iron clad
300
President of the United States during the Civil War.
What is Abraham Lincoln
300
"Stonewall" Jackson died after this battle.
What is Battle of Chancellorsville.
300
Which two battles were the turning points in the war for the Union?
What is Vicksburg and Gettsyburg
300
This law required men between the ages of 18 and 35 to serve in the army for three years
What is draft
400
To free
What is emancipate
400
He was the commander of the Confederate forces.
What is Robert E. Lee
400
Gave the Union another victory 1 day after Gettysburg.
What is Battle of Vicksburg
400
How many states joined the Confederacy?
What is 11
400
The Compromise of 1850 had how many parts which were voted on individually in Congress
What is 5
500
Loyalty to a particular region of the country.
What is sectionalism
500
Wrote the novel "Uncle Tom's Cabin"
What is Harriet Beecher Stowe
500
The first major land battle, taken place in Virginia.
What is 1st Battle of Bull Run
500
What was the FIRST state to leave the US
What is South Carolina
500
What Supreme Court decision meant that the Constitution protected slavery?
What is Dred Scott case
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