President of the Confederate States of America. Proclaimed states' rights as one of the main reasons for secession.
Who is Jefferson Davis?
100
This started the Civil War, first shots fired. Only a horse died. A Union commander surrendered.
What is Fort Sumter?
100
Admitted Missouri as a slave state, Maine as free state. Created the 36-30 Line which prohibited slavery north and allowed slavery south of the line in the states of the Louisiana Purchase and the western territories.
What is the Missouri Compromise?
100
Formed before the Civil War with the belief of being free soil in Wisconsin. Abraham Lincoln was the first to be elected under this name.
What is the Republican Party?
200
Tension between the North and South where people from certain areas places their interests above the country as a whole?
What is Sectionalism?
200
Politician known as the "Great Compromiser". Created the Missouri Compromise and the 1850 Compromise.
Who is Henry Clay?
200
The single bloodiest day of the Civil War occurred at this battle. Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation.
What is the Battle of Antietam?
200
California was admitted as a free state. Slave trade was abandoned in DC, and the Fugitive Slave Law was passed.
What is the Compromise of 1850?
200
"Angel of the Battlefield", A nurse during the Civil War. Took a bullet through her sleeve. Started the American Red Cross.
Who is Clara Barton?
300
Conflict between pro-slavery and anti-slavery people in Kansas from 1854-1859.
What is "Bleeding Kansas"?
300
Robert E. Lee's most trusted Confederate commander, had an interesting nickname, was killed by his own men.
Who is Stonewall Jackson?
300
This battle turned the tide of the war in favor of the Union after they captured the Mississippi River.
What is the Battle of Vicksburg?
300
An unwritten/written set of laws that denied Freedman employment, segregated them from public facilities, and forced them to pay poll taxes. The way the south resisted in giving Freedman their civil rights.
What are the Black Codes?
300
This amendment defined citizenship as anyone born or naturalized in the United States. Overturned Dred Scott.
What is the 14th Amendment?
400
The movement or idea that states could withdraw from the union. Proponents invoked the 10th Amendment.
What is Secession?
400
He issued the Emancipation Proclamation and the Gettysburg Address. First Republican President.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
400
Important Union victory. Bloodiest battle of the whole war. Lincoln issued one of the most important speeches in American history afterwards.
What is the Battle of Gettysburg?
400
An act that helped slave owners recover their missing "property" from the North. It would convince a lot of people to join the Abolitionist movement.
What is the Fugitive Slave Law?
400
This amendment prohibited the government from denying US citizens the right to vote based on race, color, or past servitude.
What is the 15th Amendment?
500
They were a faction of Congress who wanted to make the South pay for the participation in the Civil War.
Who are the Radical Republicans?
500
He was Grant's right hand man, responsible for the burning of Atlanta and the "March to the Sea."
Who is William Sherman?
500
General Lee surrendered at this place to General Grant. The Civil War was now over.
What is Appomattox Courthouse?
500
This allowed people to decide for themselves the issue of slavery in these territories through the principle of popular sovereignty. This act was written by Stephen Douglas.
What is the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
500
This amendment banned slavery and involuntary servitude, expect in the case of punishment for a crime.