This place famously "bled" as a result of disagreements over slavery
What is Kansas?
100
When the admission of new states threatened the balance of free and slave states in the Union, which Kentucky Senator drew up the "Missouri Compromise" in 1820 and later the "American System"
Who is Henry Clay?
100
This court case upheld the constitutionality of the Fugitive Slave Act
What is Dred Scott v. Sanford
100
This military order freed the slaves in Confederate states
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
100
This agency created educational opportunities for freed slaves during the Reconstruction era
What is the Freedmen's Bureau
200
President Lincoln announced early in his presidency that THIS would be his primary goal:
What is to "preserve the Union"?
200
This man led a failed attempt to arm slaves in an uprising against whites in Harper's Ferry, Virginia
Who is John Brown?
200
In April of 1861, this state was the first to secede from the Union
What is South Carolina
200
This Supreme Court case most clearly contributed to the start of the Civil War
What is "Dred Scott v. Sanford"
200
This amendment officially outlawed slavery
What is the Thirteenth Amendment
300
This Civil War battle gave the Union Army complete control over Confederate rail lines in the "Deep South" and set the stage for Sherman's "March to the Sea"
What is Atlanta
300
THe Confederate army received a terrible and perhaps mortal blow to its leadership with the accidental death of what general in 1863?
Who is Thomas J. "Stonewall" Jackson?
300
Supported the Fugitive Slave Law, plantation system, opposed the Wilmot Proviso, supported states' rights
This list describes what region during the antebellum period?
What is the South
300
This was Lincoln's primary goal at the start of his presidency
What is to preserve the Union
300
This nickname applied to Northerners who relocated to the South after the Civil War
What are "Carpetbaggers"
400
Ulysses S. Grant's early success came in the western theater of war, particularly in teh successful 1863 siege of...
What is Vicksburg
400
This man was responsible for the "March to the Sea" and destroying much of Georgia and South Carolina in 1864
Who is General William Tecumseh Sherman?
400
This region had more men and more factories, but not more military commanders.
What is the North
400
This "little lady" who "started the war" is most famous for her book, "Uncle Tom's Cabin"
Who is Harriet Beecher Stowe
400
The population growth in the American West following the Civil War was made possible mainly by what method of transportation?
What is the railroad
500
Under this military man's leadership, the Confederacy was not victorious during the Civil War
Who is Robert E Lee
500
This man, President during Reconstruction, was the first president to be impeached
Who is Andrew Johnson
500
This provision of the Compromise of 1850 stipulated that slaves were property, and as such were required to be returned to their lawful owners if they ran away
What is the Fugitive Slave Act
500
This author of the "Liberator" was a famous abolitionist AND women's rights activist during the antebellum period
Who is William Lloyd Garrison
500
These laws were meant to enforce segregation between whites and blacks during Reconstruction, and afterwards