Key Terms
Key People
Nation Splits Apart
Civil War
Reconstruction
100
Person with extreme views on the issue of slavery.
What is Radical?
100
President of the United States during the Civil War.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
100
This act repealed the Missouri Compromise of 1820 and therefore popular sovereignty on the issue of slavery.
What is the Kansas-Nebraska Act.
100
First attack of the Civil War.
What is Fort Sumter?
100
President Abraham Lincoln was assassinated by this actor.
Who is John Wilkes Booth?
200
By 1856, so much violence occurred there that the territory became known as this.
What is "Bleeding Kansas"?
200
General of the Union Army and later the 18th President of the United States.
Who is Ulysses S. Grant?
200
John Brown led a bloody revenge against pro-slavery settlers in Kansas that led to the death of 5 individuals.
What is the Pottawatomie Massacre?
200
A new successful weapon during the Civil War and a predecessor to the Submarine.
What is the Ironclad?
200
This act gave African-American citizens American Citizenship and "equal benefit of all laws and proceedings for the security of person and property".
What is the Civil Rights Act.
300
Delaware, Kentucky, Maryland, and Missouri were known as these during the Civil War.
What are Border States?
300
General of the Confederate Army and considered what of the best Generals in Military History.
Who is Robert E. Lee?
300
Abraham Lincoln and Stephen A. Douglas gave a series of debates throughout Illinois over the issue of slavery, and were called this.
What are the Lincoln-Douglas Debates?
300
Bloodiest single-day battle during the Civil War. Key Word is Day.
What is the Battle of Antietam?
300
Laws created by Southern Legislature that were designed to keep freedmen in slave like conditions.
What were the Black Codes?
400
This document freed all the slaves in areas that were in rebellion against the United States.
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
400
President of the Confederate States during the Civil War.
Who is Jefferson Davis?
400
This was the last event that caused the creation of the Confederate States of America.
What is Abraham Lincoln becoming President?
400
Andersonville and Elmira are examples of these during the Civil War.
What are Prisoner of War Camps?
400
This decision allowed for Rutherford B. Hayes to become President and that the Republicans would withdraw all the troops from the South.
What is the Compromise of 1877?
500
This law was possible because of the Radical Republicans control over the issue of Reconstruction, and divided the South in 5 military districts.
What is the Reconstruction Acts.
500
Senator from Ohio who pushed for equality for all for over 60 years, and pushed for the 13th Amendment to be passed.
Who is Thaddeus Stevens.
500
The name of the country that formed by seceding from the United States of America.
What is the Confederate States of America?
500
This battle changed the momentum of the Civil War to the Union's advantage, also the most famous Civil War battle.
What is the Battle of Gettysburg?
500
From the late 1870's until the 1970's, the Democrats controlled and dominated the South. This was called what.
What is the Solid South?
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