Causes of the Civil War
The Civil War
Politics of the Civil War
Reconstruction
Miscellaneous
100
Abolitionist responsible for the Raid on Harper's Ferry and Bleeding Kansas
Who is John Brown?
100

Union war plan to cut off the Confederacy's supplies

What is the Anaconda Plan?

100
After the Battle of Antietam, Lincoln made this declaration to free slaves in the states of rebellion
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
100
This plan for Reconstruction included Confederate states adopting the 13th amendment and 10% of voters taking loyalty oaths
What is Lincoln's 10 Percent Plan?
100

This potential act wanted to prohibit slavery in all land gained from Mexico.

What is the Wilmot Proviso?

200
Election that made Lincoln president and made South Carolina secede from the Union
What is the Election of 1860?
200
This battle in the west was a major Union victory in 1863
What is the Battle of Vicksburg?
200
This series of debates between two politicians in Illinois that famously included an argument about popular sovereignty and the Dred Scott Decision
What are the Lincoln and Douglas Debates?
200
This election made Rutherford B. Hayes president and ended Reconstruction
What is the Election of 1876?
200
This agricultural system left many of its participants in severe and often lifelong debt
What is sharecropping?
300
Court case that decided slaves were not citizens and therefore could not sue in court
What is Dred Scott v Sandford or the Dred Scott Decision
300
Lincoln passed the Emancipation Proclamation after this battle
What is the Battle of Antietam?
300
Another term for the draft which both the Union and Confederacy implemented
What is the conscript?
300
This president following Lincoln's assassination vetoed 9 bills from Congress including the 14th amendment
Who is Andrew Johnson?
300
Compromise that admitted California as a free state, strengthened the Fugitive Slave Laws, and popular sovereignty in Utah and New Mexico
What is the Compromise of 1850?
400

Name of the author who wrote the Impending Crisis of the South which warned of the negative effects on slavery

Who is Hinton R Helper?

400
William Tecumseh Sherman's total war trek from Chattanooga, Tennessee to Columbia, South Carolina, left Atlanta, Georgia in ruins
What is the March to the Sea?
400
President Abraham Lincoln suspended this legal action that prohibited arbitrary arrest
What is Habeas Corpus
400
These governments in the South passed laws such as the Black Codes to limit freedmen's rights
What are Redeemer governments?
400
This amendment caused the women's movement to split into 2 groups, the National Women's Suffrage Association and the American Women's Suffrage Association
What is the 15th amendment?
500

Name of the senator from Massachusetts who was beaten with a cane by Preston Brooks in the senate chamber

Who is Charles Sumner

500
Lincoln replaced this general after the Battle of Antietam accusing him of not being aggressive enough
Who is George McClellan?
500
A slang term for Peace Democrats
What are Copperheads?
500
The 14th amendment was undercut by a group of decisions made known as these
What are the Slaughter-House Cases?
500

Name of the firm from Britain that was constructing war ships for the Confederacy

Who is the Laird family?

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