This person escaped slavery to become a leading abolitionist and led hundreds of enslaved people to freedom along the route of the Underground railroad.
What is Harriet Tubman
100
He was an American soldier, politician and President of the Confederate States of America.
What is Jefferson Davis
100
This battle involved the largest number of casualties of the entire war and lasted from July 1-3, 1863.
What is Gettysburg
100
He was a minister in the African Methodist Episcopal Church, and a Republican politician. He was the first African American to serve in the US Senate.
What is Hiram Revels
100
The withdrawal of eleven southern states from the Union in 1860.
What is Secession
200
This author achieved national fame for anti-slavery novel, Uncle Tom's Cabin, which fanned the flames of sectionalism before the Civil War.
What is Harriet Beecher Stowe
200
He was a leading Confederate general during the U.S. Civil War, commanding forces at Manassas, Antietam, Fredericksburg and Chancellorsville.
What is Stonewall Jackson
200
Speech by Abe Lincoln at the dedication of the Soldiers National Cemetery in Pennsylvania four and a half months after the Union defeated the Confederacy in battle.
What is Gettysburg Address
200
A Northerner who moved to the South after the American Civil War.
What is Carpetbaggers
200
The site upon which the shots that started the American Civil War were fired, on April 12, 1861.
What is Fort Sumter
300
He was the 14th president of the United States of America and signed the Kansas-Nebraska Act.
What is Franklin Pierce
300
He served as the commander of the Union armies during the late years of the American Civil War and later became the 18th president.
What is Ulysses S. Grant
300
This term applied to southern whites who supported Reconstruction and the Republican Party after the Civil War.
What is Scalawag
300
American stage actor who assassinated President Abraham Lincoln at Ford's Theatre, in Washington, D.C. on April 14, 1865.
What is John Wilkes Booth
300
The first major battle of the Civil War took place near this city in Northern Virginia.
What is Manassas
400
Enslaved African-American who unsuccessfully sued for his freedom and that of his wife and two daughters in 1857.
What is Dred Scott
400
Best known for commanding the Confederate army at Northern Virginia in the American Civil War from 1862 until his surrender in 1865.
What is Robert E. Lee
400
Represented a Faction of American politicians within the Republican Party from about 1854-1877.
What is Radical Republicans
400
This amendment prohibits the federal and state governments from denying a citizen the right to vote based on that citizens "race, color, or previous condition of servitude".
What is the 15th Amendment
400
This document proclaimed the freedom of slaves in ten states that were still in rebellion, thus applying to 3-4 million slaves in the U.S. at the time.
What is Emancipation Proclamation
500
Abraham Lincoln was the 16th president of the United States. He preserved the Union during the Civil War and brought about the emancipation of slaves.
What is Abraham Lincoln
500
She was a pioneer nurse who founded the American Red Cross.
What is Clara Barton
500
This amendment addressed citizenship, rights, and equal protection of the laws. This amendment was proposed to issues related to former slaves following the American Civil War.
What is the 14th Amendment
500
A system of agriculture in which a landowner allows a tenant to use the land in return for a share of the crops produced on the land.
What is Sharecropping
500
This organization played a violent role against African-Americans emphasizing secrecy and distinctive costumes, and called for purification of American society.