Causes of the War
Battles of the War
People
Speeches and Documents
Reconstruction
100
The belief that the United States was divided in to three different divisions with varying characteristics
What is sectionalism?
100

This was the official beginning of the Civil War

What is the Attack on Ft. Sumter?

100
He was elected the 16th president of the United States in 1860; president during the Civil War
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
100
This speech given by Lincoln states that "the Union is perpetual" and that Lincoln will do what it takes to preserve it
What is "Lincoln's First Inaugural Address?"
100
The 13th Amendment did this
What is "freed the slaves?"
200

This was the compromise that introduced Maine and Missouri as free or slave states as well as the 36o30' line

What is the Missouri Compromise?
200

This was the bloodiest battle and turning point of the Civil War

What is the battle of Gettysburg?

200

He was chosen for the Presidency of the Confederate States of America after the secession of the Southern States

Who is Jefferson Davis?

200
This eulogy commemorates the fallen soldiers at the turning point of the war and promises a "new birth of freedom" for all
What is the Gettysburg Address?
200
The 14th Amendment did this
What is "Gave former slaves citizenship?"
300
This compromise introduced California as a free state, used popular sovereignty for the Mexican Cession for slavery, and the Fugitive Slave Law
What is the Compromise of 1850?
300
This was the location General Lee surrendered to General Grant, ending the Civil War
What is Appomattox Courthouse?
300
He became the general of the Confederate Army after his home state of Virginia seceded from the Union
Who is Robert E. Lee?
300
This document freed the slaves in the Confederacy in hopes to weaken the South during the war
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
300
The 15th Amendment did this
What is "gave black men the right to vote?"
400
This law allowed popular sovereignty to determine if the states of Nebraska and Kansas would be a slave or free state
What is the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
400

This was the bloodiest one-day battle of the war, prompting Lincoln to issue the Emancipation Proclamation

What is the Battle of Antietam?

400
He was the General of the Union Army 
Who is Ulysses S. Grant?
400
The collective name of the amendments passed during the rebuilding period after the Civil War
What are the Reconstruction Amendments?
400
This was the system of farming that tied former slaves to plantations but created large amounts of debt for them
What is "sharecropping"?
500
This was the last and final cause of the Civil War that resulted in South Carolina and other southern states seceding from the Union and creating the Confederacy

What is the election of Abraham Lincoln?

500
This 47-day assault effectively captured the Mississippi River for the Union and cut the Confederacy in half
What is the Siege of Vicksburg?
500
He was the slave who was denied his freedom in an

 infamous court case in 1854

Who is Dred Scott?
500

This speech given stated that "if a government becomes destructive then the people have the right to abolish it," or in this case, secede from it

What is Jefferson Davis' Inaugural Address?
500
This was the set of laws used in the South to take away the rights of the freedmen
What are the Black Codes?
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