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100
Movement to end slavery
abolitionist
100
1857 ruling in which the Supreme Court declared no slave or descendant of a slave could ever be a US Citizen
Dred Scott
100
Infantry assault ordered by General Lee and led by General Pickett on the last day of the Battle of Gettysburg
Pickett's Charge
100
Location of Robert E. Lee's surrender
Appomattox Court House
100
Group of states aligned with the Union during the Civil War which separated the North from the South geographically
Border states
200
Demand made by northerners for open land in the west to be available to small farmers instead of rich slave owners
Free Soil
200
Executive order issued by Lincoln that freed 20,000 slaves in Non-Union territory in 1863
Emancipation Proclamation
200
River fortress city that was key to winning the war
Vicksburg, Mississippi
200
Novel by Harriet Beecher Stowe that amplified opposition to the Fugitive Slave Law of 1850
Uncle Tom's Cabin
200
President that formally declared an end to the war after Lincoln was killed
Andrew Johnson
300
President elected in 1860
Lincoln
300
Amendment that officially abolished slavery
13th
300
Leader of the Confederacy
Jefferson Davis
300
Pre-Civil War meeting in Washington DC in which over 100 politicians tried to avoid a war.
Peace Conference of 1861
300
How the Civil War ended
Lee surrendered to Grant
400
Bombardment on April 12-13 that started the Civil War
Fort Sumter
400
Single [multi-day] battle with the most casualties in the Civil War
Gettysburg
400
Woman who tended wounded soldiers on the battlefields and later founded the Red Cross
Clara Barton
400
Section with the most Electoral College votes and influence in the 1860 Presidential election
North
400
Single bloodiest day of the Civil War [battle]
Antietam
500
Southern government created by the 7 succeeded states on February 4, 1861
Confederate States of America or Confederacy
500
Speech that begin with "Fourscore and seven years ago" in reference to the American Revolution of 1776
Gettysburg Address
500
Name of the campaign in which Sherman led his troops from Atlanta to Savannah using a "total war" strategy
Sherman's March to the Sea
500
Number of electoral votes that Lincoln got from the Southern states in 1860
Zero
500
Another word for "conscription"
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