This amendment abolished slavery and involuntary servitude.
What is the 13th Amendment?
100
He was the 16th President of the United States and the President throughout the Civil War.
Who was Abraham Lincoln?
100
The site of the first shots of the Civil War.
What is Fort Sumter?
100
This executive order by President Lincoln proclaimed the freedom of slaves in Confederate-held territory, but had not made slavery illegal.
What was the Emancipation Proclamation?
100
This novel by Harriet Beecher Stowe portrayed the realities of slavery and was the best-selling novel of the 19th century.
What is Uncle Tom's Cabin?
200
This law forces the authorities in free states to return fugitive slaves to their masters in slave states.
What is the Fugitive Slave Law (or Act)?
200
He was the President of the Confederacy for its entire existence.
Who was Jefferson Davis?
200
The location of John Brown's 1859 raid.
What is Harpers Ferry, WV?
200
This federal agency aided former slaves through legal food and housing, oversight, education, health care, and employment contracts with private landowners.
What is the Freedman's Bureau?
200
This 1856 event involved the beating of a Northern Senato by a Southern Congressional Representative over anti-slavery comments.
What is the Sumner-Brooks Incident?
300
This 1857 court ruling said that people of African descent and held as slaves were not protected by the Constitution and could never be citizens.
What is Dred Scott v. Sanford?
300
He commanded the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia during the Civil War.
Who was Robert E. Lee?
300
This 1861 battle was the first major land battle of the Civil War.
What is First Bull Run?
300
This unrecognized state was set up from 1861 to 1865 by eleven southern slave states of the United States of America that had declared their secession from the U.S
What is the Confederacy?
300
The Virginia court house where Robert E. Lee surrendered to Ulysses S. Grant.
What is the Appomattox Court House?
400
This compromise defused a four-year confrontation between the slave states of the South and the free states of the North that arose following the Mexican-American War, avoided secession or civil war at the time, and reduced sectional conflict for four years.
What is the Compromise of 1850?
400
He was the 18th President of the United States and the Commander of the Union Army at the conclusion of the Civil War.
Who was Ulysses S. Grant?
400
This three-day battle in Pennsylvania saw a Union victory, but saw the largest number of casualties for any battle in the Civil War.
What is Gettysburg?
400
The term for the series of violent events that took place in a Midwest territory between anti-slavery and pro-slavery groups between 1854 and 1858.
What is Bleeding Kansas?
400
The term for Union General William Sherman's military campaign from Atlanta to Savannah in 1864.
What is the March to the Sea?
500
This 1854 act created two new territories in the Midwest and allowed those territories to vote on whether allow slavery.
What is the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
500
This Confederate General earned his nickname at the First Battle of Bull Run.
Who was Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson?
500
It was the bloodiest single-day battle in American history, with about 23,000 casualties.
What is Antietam?
500
The model that allowed Confederate States to return to the Union when 10 percent of the voters in that state had taken an oath of allegiance to the U.S.
What is the Ten Percent Plan?
500
This 1861 strategy devised by Winfield Scott called for a blockade of Southern ports and the military advance down the Mississippi River into Confederate territory.