Before Civil War
Battles of Civil War
Reconstruction
Abe
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100
This was the Republican stance on slavery going into the 1860 election.
What is continue it where it exists, but no expansion?
100
General Grant was nearly fired after this battle.
What is the Battle of Shiloh?
100
This was the number of military districts that divided the South post-Civil War.
What is 5?
100
He assassinated President Lincoln.
Who is John Wilkes Booth?
100
This was the only political party to avoid the slavery issue in the 1860 election.
What is the Constitutional Union Party?
200
This was the 1st state to secede from the Union.
What is South Carolina?
200
This was the bloodiest one day battle in US history.
What is Antietam?
200
He won the 1868 election, but his presidency was ruined by scandals and a bad economy.
Who is Ulysses S. Grant?
200
He became POTUS when Lincoln was killed.
Who is Andrew Johnson?
200
This means to reject a bill by simply allowing it to expire.
What is a pocket veto?
300
The idea to blockade Confederate ports was part of this strategy devised by Winfield Scott.
What is the Anaconda Plan?
300
This banned slavery in the US.
What is the 13th Amendment?
300
This organization helped former slaves to gain contracts with plantation owners post-Civil War.
What is the Freedmen's Bureau?
300
This % of voters had to swear an oath of loyalty to the Union in order to organize a new government under Lincoln's Plan.
What is 10%?
300
He became a military officer for the South despite having an opportunity to lead the North.
Who is Robert E. Lee?
400
He was the first president of the CSA.
Who is Jefferson Davis?
400
This general led reinforcements to victory in the 1st Battle of Bull Run.
Who is Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson?
400
This granted voting rights to adult male African Americans.
What is the 15th Amendment?
400
The year that Abe died.
What is 1865?
400
He became POTUS as a result of the Compromise of 1877.
Who is Rutherford B. Hayes?
500
Name two major advantages the South had over the North going into the Civil War.
What is agriculture and more military colleges?
500
He led his men on a destructive March to the Sea.
Who is General William Tecumseh Sherman?
500
Those who travelled from the North to the South to take advantage of the opportunity post-Civil War.
What are carpetbaggers?
500
Lincoln stood up for Grant despite criticism by saying this.
What is "I can't spare this man, he fights?"
500
Name the 3 of the 5 border states during the Civil War.
What is Kentucky, Missouri, West Virginia, Maryland, and Delaware?
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