This was written by Harriet Beecher Stowe and awakened Northerners to the horror of slavery.
Uncle Tom's Cabin
100
This weapon was one of the earliest machine guns and was developed by a man whose first name was Richard. It made its debut in the Civil War.
Gatling Gun
100
The North stopped most Confederate imports using this military technique.
Naval Blockade of all Confederate Ports
100
This battle was the turning point of the war and the bloodiest battle in American history.
Battle of Gettysburg
100
The Emancipation Proclamation was issued by this President.
Abraham Lincoln
200
John Sutter found a popular and high-priced mineral at his mill, sparking this major event.
California Gold Rush
200
This was the main cause of death in the Civil War.
Disease
200
These two countries came close to recognizing Confederate independence and allying with the Southerners.
Great Britain and France
200
This Battle caused the most American casualties in one day.
The Battle of Antietam
200
This General is mostly known today for his facial hair.
Ambrose Burnside
300
This piece of legislation was written by an Illinois senator trying to build a transcontinental railroad ending in Chicago.
Kansas-Nebraska Act
300
More Americans died in the Civil War than in these four wars combined.(America participated in them)
World War II, World War I, the Korean War, the Vietnam War
300
Before the war, this party split along North-South lines and died.
The Whig Party
300
This battle lasted for about six months and ended about the same time as Gettysburg. Part of Grant's campaign in the West.
The Siege of Vicksburg
300
This general earned his nickname for his famous stand at the First Battle of Bull Run.
Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson
400
This was proposed by Henry Clay to settle the slavery issue and successfully calmed the national controversy temporarily.
Compromise of 1850
400
10% of Union soldiers were immigrants of this nationality.
German
400
The Union economy was this until 1862.
In a recession
400
This battle was where Stonewall Jackson was shot by his own men.
The Battle of Chancellorsville
400
This general later became U.S. president.
Ulysses S. Grant
500
This piece of legislation attempted to ban slavery in the West even before the Mexican War was ended.
Wilmot Proviso
500
This cemetery was the eventual result of the Union confiscating Robert E. Lee's estate and burying soldiers there to remind him of the carnage he caused.
Arlington National Cemetery
500
One of the reasons the Confederacy collapsed is because this happened to their money.
Inflation
500
This battle was a complete failure for the Union because 12,000 of their soldiers marched uphill to their deaths.
The Battle of Fredericksburg
500
This person said,"It is well that war is so terrible, otherwise we should grow too fond of it."