This fictional book revealed the cruelties of slavery in the South
What is Uncle Tom's Cabin?
100
When part of a country leaves or breaks off from the rest
What is secession?
100
The South's most important crop during the 1800s preceding the Civil War.
What is Cotton?
100
The first large battle of the Civil War in which Union troops hoped to capture Manassas, Virginia but were overtaken by Confederate troops.
What is The First Battle of Bull Run?
100
The sixteenth president of the United States.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
200
This white abolitionist raided an army arsenal at Harper's Ferry, Virginia in an effort to get slaves to revolt.
Who is John Brown?
200
In a series of debates, Abraham Lincoln ran for the Senate in Illinois against this fellow candidate in 1858.
Who was Stephen Douglas?
200
The invention of this machine in 1793 made cotton much easier to produce.
What is the cotton gin?
200
This was the largest battle of the Civil War, lasting three days in which Lee's army was stopped from moving further north.
What is the Battle of Gettysburg?
200
The leader of the southern army during the Civil War.
Who is Robert E. Lee?
300
The idea that state, not the federal government, should make the final decisions about matters that affect them.
What is states' rights?
300
When these eleven states left the Union, they formed their own country.
What is The Confederate States of America?
300
Large farms on which crops are raised by people who live on the farms.
What are plantations?
300
Sherman launched his attack on this southern city in May of 1864.
What is the Atlanta Campaign?
300
The northern general who led the Union army and later became president of the United States.
Who is Ulysses S. Grant?
400
This idea states that the people who live in an area should make decisions for themselves increased tensions between the north and the south.
What is popular sovereignty?
400
These four slave states (Kentucky, Missouri, Maryland, and Delaware) stayed in the Union after the South seceded.
What were the border states?
400
A tax on imported goods.
What is a tariff?
400
William Tecumseh Sherman's soldiers marched to Savannah from Atlanta destroying anything southerners needed for the war.
What is Sherman's March to the Sea?
400
President of the Confederate States of America
Who is Jefferson Davis?
500
Before he was elected in 1861, Southerners believed that this Republican president would make federal government too strong and that he would end slavery.
Who was Abraham Lincoln?
500
The Confederate government wanted control of this federal fort in South Carolina. When Lincoln refused to surrender, southern troops launched the first attack of the Civil War.
What is Fort Sumter?
500
A type of economy based on farming where southerners worked on large cotton plantations.
What is agricultural?
500
The town where Robert E. Lee surrendered because his army was weakened and no longer able or willing to fight.
What is Appomattox Courthouse?
500
The Confederate general who led troops during the Battle of Bull Run who was observed and described by an onlooker.
Who is Thomas Jonathan Jackson or "Stonewall Jackson"?