What career did Lincoln have success in prior to becoming a politician?
Law
100
What region of the U.S. was slavery most prominent in?
The South
100
What is the name of the Fort where the first shots were fired in the Civil War?
Fort Sumpter
200
What country did the U.S. go to war with during the War of 1812?
Great Britain
200
What President served in both the Revolutionary War and the War of 1812?
Andrew Jackson
200
What President's wife famously saved a portrait of George Washington from the White House before it was burnt?
James Madison's wife, Dolly Madison.
200
What invention by Eli Whitney greatly increased the demand for slaves?
The Cotton Gin
200
What is the name of the compromise that admitted Maine and Missouri as states into the Union, one free, one slave, and diminished tensions over slavery in the US for 20 years?
Missouri Compromise (1820)
300
What is the defining event of the War?
Burning of the White House by the British
300
Who was President when the southern states began seceding from the United States prior to the start of the Civil War?
James Buchanan
300
What President was born to illiterate parents and had little to no formal education?
Abraham Lincoln
300
What woman and former slave led over 300 slaves to freedom?
Harriet Tubman
300
What was the primary feature of the Northern economy as opposed to the southern economy prior to the Civil War?
Hint: the answer is not slavery
The North was becoming an industrial/manufacturing economy as opposed to the southern agriculturally based economy.
400
What young American general came to prominence during the War? Clue: he would later become President.
Andrew Jackson
400
Which President stated that "A house divided against itself cannot stand" ?
Abraham Lincoln
400
What Civil War Confederate General was offered command of the Union Army by Lincoln?
Robert E Lee
400
What percentage of a person did a single slave represent when determining a states total population for legislative representation?
3/5
400
What was the first major battle of the Civil War called?
Bull Run
500
What was the name of the treaty that ended the War?
The Treaty of Ghent
500
Who was President during the Mexican American War?
James K. Polk
500
Which state, which later became part of the Confederacy, was the birthplace of seven out of the first 15 Presidents of the U.S.?
Virginia
500
What railroad ferried thousands of slaves to freedom prior to the Civil War?
The Underground Railroad
500
What proclamation did Lincoln create following the Battle of Antietam in 1862?