Who was the President of the United States during the time of the Civil War ?
100
General Ulysses S. Grant
Who is the Union General that accepted the Confederate's surrender ?
100
abolitionist
What is a person called who fights to end slavery ?
100
John Wilkes Booth
Who assassinated President Abraham Lincoln while he was watching a play at the Ford Theater ?
100
Dred Scott was considered property and not a citizen so that he was not a free man.
In the Dred Scott case, what did the Supreme Court decide ?
200
Jefferson Davis
Who was the President of the Confederacy ?
200
General Robert E. Lee
Who is the Confederate General who surrendered to the Union ending the Civil War ?
200
fugitive
What is it called if you are a runaway slave ?
200
Gettysburg
What is the name of the battlefield where Abraham Lincoln gave his famous speech ?
200
13th
What is the amendment that ended slavery ?
300
George Washington Carver
Who invented the cotton gin which increased the demand for slavery ?
300
General William Tecumseh Sherman
Who is the Union army general that destroyed Georgia so that the Confederacy would not have a supply line or a communication line ?
300
tariff
What is it called when the government charges a tax for goods that are imported from another country ?
300
Underground Railroad
What was it called when people found escape routes for slaves leaving the southern states ?
300
15th
What is the amendment that stated all men were allowed to vote ?
400
Mathew Brady
Who is the person who photographed with great detail the battles of the Civil War ?
400
Frederick Douglass
Who is the abolitionist who received reading and writing lessons from his master's wife ?
400
secession
What is it called when the Southern States which formed the Confederate States of America left the union ?
400
Fort Sumter
What event started the Civil War ?
400
Jim Crow Laws
What are the laws called that separate the races in schools, buses, drinking fountains & bathrooms ?
500
Dred Scott
Who is the slave who claimed he should be free because he lived in 2 free states but lost his fight at the Supreme Court who stated he was property and not a citizen ?
500
Clara Barton
Who is the Union army nurse who founded the American Red Cross ?
500
total war
What is it called when you destroy an enemy's resources ?
500
Appomattox Court House
Where did General Lee surrender, ending the Civil War on April 9th, 1865 ?
500
Emancipation Proclamation
After the Union's victory at the Battle of Antietam, President Lincoln issued this document, which paved the way for African-Americans to fight for their freedom.