Prelude to War
Civil War
All About Presidents
Miscellaneous
Reconstruction
100
This book is sometimes considered a cause of the Civil War.
What is Uncle Tom's Cabin?
100
This decreed freedom for enslaved persons in the states that remained in rebellion against the Union.
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
100
This man was assassinated while watching a play, "My American Cousin," at Ford's Theater.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
100
The Kansas-Nebraska Act destroyed this.
What is the Whig Party?
100
Nickname for money created by the Legal Tender Act.
What is greenback?
200
She was the most famous conductor of the Underground Railroad.
Who is Harriet Tubman?
200
President of the Confederate States of America.
Who is Jefferson Davis?
200
This president was impeached and only one vote away from being removed from office.
Who is Andrew Johnson?
200
The Great Compromiser
Who is Henry Clay?
200
This is the term applied to formerly enslaved African Americans after emancipation.
What is freedmen?
300
This would have projibited slavery in any territory gained from Mexico.
What is the Wilmot Proviso?
300
Northern war strategy which sought to blockade southern ports, isolate the confederacy from foreign aid, control the Mississippi River, exhaust Southern resouces, and cut off supplies, travel routes, and other forms of communication.
What is the Anaconda Plan?
300
In his inaugural address, Abraham Lincoln repeated his commitment not to interfere with this.
What is slavery where it already existed?
300
Lincoln used this to prevent Maryland from seceding.
What is declaring martial law in Baltimore?
300
They used a portion of the crops they grew to pay for rent.
What is a sharecropper?
400
This group opposed the spread of slavery because it took jobs from free men.
What is the Free-Soil Party?
400
Famous battle fought in Pennsylvania.
What is Gettysburg?
400
This man said "a house divided against itself cannot stand."
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
400
The idea that citizens of each new territory should determine if it would permit slavery or not.
What is popular sovereignty?
400
Scandal involving members of Ulysses S. Grant's administration in which false tax reports were filed.
What is the "Whiskey Ring"?
500
This was intended to help create a transcontinental railroad route out of New Orleans.
What is the Gadsen Purchase?
500
Three of the five border states.
What are Missouri, Kentucky, West Virginia, Maryland, and Deleware?
500
This man ended Reconstruction by removing troops from the south.
Who is Rutherford B. Hayes?
500
Though he lost the election, Lincoln's debates with this man secured him a national reputation and outlined Republican doctrines concerning many major issues.
Who is Stephen A. Douglas?
500
When a president does nothing to a bill Congress sends him and Congress is not in session, the president is using this.
What is a pocket veto?
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