This law ordered the return of escaped slaves to their owners.
What is the Fugitive Slave Act?
100
This book by Harriet Beecher Stowe opened northerners' eyes to the the brutality of slavery and convinced many that slavery would ruin the nation.
What is Uncle Tom's Cabin?
100
The Civil War began when Confederate troops fired on this fort held by the Union.
What is Fort Sumter, South Carolina?
100
The Confederate Army of Northern Virginia was commanded by this man.
Who is General Robert E. Lee?
100
Lincoln's goal for the time period immediately after the war, known as Reconstruction, was to...
What is quickly restore the Union?
200
This law let Missouri enter the Union as a slave state; Maine would enter as a free state. It kept the number of slave states and free states equal and established that future territories north of 36 ° 30’ line would be free; south of this would be slave.
What is the Missouri Compromise?
200
This is what John Brown hoped to start in the south by launching a raid on the federal arsenal at Harper's Ferry.
What is a slave rebellion?
200
This was an important battle because it ended Lee's hopes of moving the Confederate army into northern territory.
What is the Battle of Gettysburg?
200
This man was the first president of the Confederate States of America.
Who is Jefferson Davis?
200
The 13th Amendment abolished this.
What is slavery?
300
This law divided Louisiana Territory into two territories. Each would vote to decide the question of slavery in their territory. This eliminated the Missouri Compromise’s restrictions on slavery along the 36 ° 30’ line.
What is the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
300
In the mid-1800's many white southerners worked as these.
What are farmers?
300
This battle involved the "bloodiest" day of fighting in the entire Civil War and American history.
What is Antietam?
300
This Union General destroyed the resources and economy of the south by burning cities on his "March to the Sea" from Atlanta to Savannah.
Who is William Tecumseh Sherman?
300
This famous speech by Abraham Lincoln praised the efforts of Union soldiers.
What is the Gettysburg address?
400
This term means political power belongs to the people. The voters of Kansas and Nebraska would use this to decide whether they would become a free or slave state.
What is popular sovereignty?
400
This is the number of southern states Abraham Lincoln won in the Election of 1860.
What is 0?
400
Two different battles took place near Mannassas, Virginia and ended in disaster for the Union.
What is Bull Run?
400
This Union General accepted the surrender of Robert E. Lee at Appomattox Court House in Virginia.
Who is General Ulysses S. Grant?
400
This document freed slaves that were in Confederate states.
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
500
The south's economy was based on ___________, which led to their need for slave labor.
What is farming/agriculture?
500
The cotton gin made it possible to separate cotton seeds from fiber at a much faster rate. It had this affect on the number of slaves.
What is an increase?
500
This battle ended in a victory that gave the Union control of the Mississippi River.
What is the Battle of Vicksburg/Vicksburg Campaign?
500
This man was a former slave and became an important black abolitionist, who urged Lincoln to recruit former slaves to fight in the Union army.
Who is Frederick Douglass?
500
These laws segregate southern society for about a hundred years after the end of the Civil War.