The author, born to an abolitionist family, was said to have "been the little lady who started this big war," because she authored Uncle Tom's Cabin.
What is Harriett Beecher Stowe
100
General Santa Anna's troops were held off from advancement for 13 days thanks to the effort of the few men who defended this Texas landmark.
What is The Alamo
100
This series of political debates is histoically important because they ensured that the public would never forget the participants.
What is The Lincoln-Douglas Debates
100
Abraham Lincoln developed this lenient plan, as early as 1863, in order to ensure the quick return of states that had seceeded.
What is The 10% Plan
100
This was the turning point of the Civil War
What is The Battle of Gettysburg
200
Illinois Senator Stephen Douglas championed this legislation that proposed popular soveriegnty for the territory just west of his home state.
What is The Kansas-Nebraska Act
200
This man, who first led settlers to Texas, did not heed the warning to keep his slaves in Louisiana.
What is Stephen Austin
200
Lincoln issued this order, which announced that all slaves in areas in rebellion against the United States would be forever free.
What is The Emancipation Proclamation
200
The members of Congress who opposed the Presidential Reconstruction Plans were better known by this moniker.
What is Radical Republicans
200
The people of this location were forced to eat dogs, horses, and leather, thanks to the seige place upon them by General Grant.
What is Vicksburg
300
This man was found to be property protected by the 5th amendment by Chief Justice Roger Taney in 1857.
What is Dred Scott
300
This man was the first and only president of the Lone Star Republic.
What is Sam Houston
300
Lincoln was shot and killed just 5 days after the end of the Civil War by this infamous champion of the south.
What is John Wilkes Booth
300
This President supported the quick passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1875, which would use force to fight the KKK.
What is Ulysses S. Grant
300
This man was offered command of the Union troops before he accepted command of the Confederate Troops.
What is Robert E. Lee
400
This compromising legislation maintained a balance between slave and free states to avoid the possibility of war in 1820.
What is the Missouri Compromise
400
This treaty, which ended the Mexican-American War, gave the US its second largest land aquisition in history.
What is The Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo
400
Abraham Lincoln made a 2 1/2 minute speech which "the world would not long remember" at the site of this battle in November 1863.
What is The Battle of Gettysburg
400
This Bill was vetoed by Lincoln because he felt its terms were too difficult on the southern states.
What is The Wade-Davis Bill
400
This was the site of the surrended by Lee, to Grant.
What is Appomattox Court House
500
The summer of 1856 began with John Brown chopping 5 pro-slavery men up. The act led to over 200 people being killed during this period of time, including the namesake of the territory in which it occurred.
What is Bleeding Kansas.
500
The election of this expansionist president ensured Texas would be annexed by the United States.
What is James Knox Polk
500
Inciting many copperheads, Lincoln enacted the suspension of this constitutional right, citing the necessity for wartime security.
What is The Writ of Habeas Corpus
500
While this Emancipation Proclamation did not effectively free any slaves with immediacy, the passage of this did in actuality.
What is The 13th Amendment
500
This man was the only person sentenced to die for crimes committed during the war.
What is Henry Wirz (Commander of Andersonville Prison)