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100
Who was the President of the Union and who was the President of the Confederacy?
What is Abraham Lincoln and Jefferson Davis?
100

Where were the first shots of the Civil War fired?

What is Fort Sumter?

100

Abraham Lincoln won this election 212-21.

What is the Election of 1864?

100

California became a free state, banned the slave trade in Washington D.C., and established a new Fugitive Slave Law. 

What is the Compromise of 1850?

100
DAILY DOUBLE Because of its color, the paper bank notes were popularly know as ________.
What is greenbacks?
200

Who was the most successful Union General?

What is Ulysses S. Grant?

200
This first battle shattered the Union's hope of winning quickly and easily.
What is Battle of Bull Run?
200
Why was Lincoln disappointed in General McClellan at Antietam?
General McClellan failed to follow up his victory by pursuing the Confederates.
200

This radical abolitionist led a failed raid at Harpers Ferry:

What is John Brown?

200

President Lincoln suspended this privilege early on in the war:

What is the Writ of Habeas Corpus?

300
DAILY DOUBLE Who were the two major Confederate Generals?
What is Robert E. Lee and Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson?
300

As a result of the Homestead Act, the federal government gave 160 acres of free land to citizens who farmed the land for five years in this region:

What is The Great Plains?

300

This was the first time the U.S. Government ever instituted this practice. Led to riots in New York City:

What is Conscription Acts or The Draft?

300

This led to "Bleeding Kansas" after opening popular sovereignty to a new territory: 

What is the Kansas-Nebraska Act?

300

Sherman's March to the Sea signified a shift to this type of war effort:

What is Total War?

400

What was the title of the speech Lincoln gave to "free" slaves?

What is Emancipation Proclamation?

400

This battle resulted in more than 50,000 U.S. & Confederate causalities...

What is the Battle of Gettysburg?

400
The initial Northern strategy for subduing the South, it entailed strangling it by a blockade at sea and obtaining control of the Mississippi River.
What is the Anaconda Plan?
400

Largely seen as one of the worst Supreme Court decisions in U.S. history:

What is the Dred Scott Decision? (Dred Scott v. Sandford)

400
The idea that Britain would support the south because it needed cotton is known as this.
What is cotton diplomacy?
500

The man who shot Abraham Lincoln during a play at Ford's Theater: 

What is John Wilkes Booth?

500

Where did Lee surrender to Grant?

What is Appomattox Court House?

500

What did the Union gain following the victory at Vicksburg?

What is the Mississippi River?

500

Harriet Beecher Stowe wrote this fictional story about slavery in the South:

What is Uncle Tom's Cabin?

500

This Amendment finally ended the institution of slavery in the United States:

What is the 13th Amendment?

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