What amendment promised equal legal protection to former slaves?
What is the 14TH AMENDMENT
100
What innovation had the greatest impact on military tactics during the Civil War?
What is THE RIFLE
100
What Presidents stated goal throughout the Civil War was to restore and keep the union togther?
Who was ABRAHAM LINCOLN
100
What party was founded when the Free-Soil Party joined forces with the northern Whigs and others?
What is the REPUBLICAN PARTY
100
What innovation provided the most rapid communication between Civil War field officers and President Lincoln?
What is the TELEGRAPH
200
What amendment promised voting rights for all?
What is the 15TH AMENDMENT
200
What Union plan to win the war centered on preventing the flow of supplies to the South through a blockade of land and sea?
What is ANACONDA PLAN
200
“I do not expect the Union to be dissolved—I do not expect the house to fall—but I do expect it will cease to be divided.” This quote was probably stated by whom?
Who is ABRAHAM LINCOLN
200
The American Party, usually called the Know-Nothings, were known for their_____
What is NATIVISM
200
What state is considered the most important border state?
What is MARYLAND
300
What ended Reconstruction in the South?
What is THE COMPROMISE OF 1877.
300
Abraham Lincoln in 1861 informED Jefferson Davis that he was sending only food to Fort ______. This would be the first shots fired of the Civil War.
What is SUMTER
300
Who led an act of terrorism at Pottawatomie was revenge for the sack of Lawrence, Kansas?
Who was JOHN BROWN
300
Who won the election of 1860, causing South Carolina to seceed from the union?
Who is ABRAHAM LINCOLN
300
Lincoln waited until a victory at what battle to issue the Emancipation Proclamation?
What is ANTIETAM
400
What percent of southerners had to pledge an oath of loyality to the union for the state to rejoin the union?
What is 10 PERCENT
400
During his March to the Sea, what General destroyed much of Georgia because he wanted toshow that Union armies could do as they wished in the South and that further resistance was futile.
Who was GENERAL SHERMAN
400
What individual proposed that the issue of slavery in Kansas and Nebraska be settled by popular sovereignty?
Who was STEPHEN DOUGLASS
400
What act named for two states caused Northerners to react with outrage and protest?
What is the KANSAS-NEBRASKA ACT
400
What did Lincoln not follow when he suspended habeas corpus during the Civil War?
What is the CONSTITUTION
500
What group joined the Republican Party to prevent the old planter class from returning to power in the South?
What were SCALAWAGS
500
what battle was evidence that the war would not be short?
What is BULL RUN (MANASSAS)
500
Who did South Carolina's Senator Preston Brooks beat with a cane in the Senate chambers?
Who was CHARLES SUMNER.
500
The admission of what state was the most controversial part of the Compromise of 1850?
What is CALIFORNIA
500
With the statement “A house divided against itself cannot stand,” President Lincoln directly addressed what issue?