This event leads South Carolina and other southern states to secede because they do not want an anti-slavery person to be their leader.
What is Election of 1860?
100
President of U.S. during the Civil War, preserved the nation and abolished slavery.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
100
3 day battle with many casualties; turning point for Union, the Confederacy was greatly diminished.
What is Gettysburg?
100
First African American to serve in US Senate. Took a Senate seat in Mississippi, home of Jefferson Davis.
Who is Hiram Revels Rhodes?
100
This political act freed slaves in rebel states; effects: encouraged Free Blacks to fight, increased support for the war in the north, kept Britain and France from helping the South.
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
200
This settled sectional differences about slavery in the Mexican Cession; California admitted as a free state; N.M. and UT would be decided by Popular Sovereignty. The Fugitive Slave Act was also included.
What is the Compromise of 1850?
200
President of the Confederacy during the Civil War, believed in states' rights and expanding slavery.
Who is Jefferson Davis?
200
April, 1865 - Lee surrendered ending the Civil War in this place.
What is Appomattox Courthouse?
200
This person assassinated Lincoln plunging the nation into upheaval and changing the course of Reconstruction.
Who is John Wilkes Booth?
200
Congressmen from Massachusetts; supported tariffs and a preserved Union, was a sectional leader for the north.
Who is Daniel Webster?
300
Pro-Slavery, Pro-States' Rights, Anti-Tariff leader from South Carolina, Sectional leader of the South; sparked the Nullification Crisis.
Who is John C. Calhoun?
300
General of Confederate Armies, the south, denied Lincoln's request to lead Union Army because he could not fight against his home state of Virginia.
Who is Robert E. Lee?
300
After numerous victories in the South, Grant takes this strategic town, with it the North takes control of the Mississippi River, splits Confederacy in two.
What is Vicksburg?
300
These Amendments FREED all slaves, ensured CITIZENSHIP rights, and gave African American men the VOTE.
What are the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments?
300
He brought north and south together in compromises to delay the Civil War;was a Western sectional leader; "The Great Compromiser".
Who is Henry Clay?
400
Supreme Court decision stating African-Americans were not citizens, restrictions on slavery were unconstitutional; abolitionists were outraged by the case.
What is Dred Scott Vs. Sanford?
400
Main General of the Union Army, went to West Point. Wanted complete destruction of the South.
Who is Ulysses S. Grant?
400
First shots of the Civil War were fired on this Union military base in South Carolina.
What is Fort Sumter?
400
Scornful name given to Northerners who went South after the war seeking personal, financial gain or political advancement during the Reconstruction Era.
What are Carpetbaggers?
400
This woman helped bring medical supplies to the battlefields and helped soldiers during the Civil War. She later helped establish the American Red Cross.
Who is Clara Barton?
500
Violent confrontations in Kansas, and border towns of Missouri, due to an act (law) which allowed the issue of slavery to be determined by Popular Sovereignty.
What is Bleeding Kansas?
500
Former slave, leading abolitionist, speaker, and wrote a newspaper called The North Star.
Who is Frederick Douglass?
500
A Confederate General in the war, he earned his nickname in the first battle commanding a defensive line during a Union Attack.
Who is Stonewall Jackson?
500
The agency created to help and protect freed slaves transition to a life of freedom; it provided food, housing, medical aid, schooling and offered legal assistance.
What is the Freedman's' Bureau?
500
William Carney and Philip Bazaar were people of minority groups who fought in the Civil War and earned this.