The capture of this capital city effectively ended the Mexican-American War.
What is Mexico City?
She was the most famous conductor on the Underground Railroad.
Who was Harriet Tubbman?
This "gold rush" state wrote a constitution that banned slavery.
What is California?
The states of the Lower South specialized in growing this cash crop.
General Winfield Scott devised this strategy to defeat the South.
Anaconda Plan
This battle became the turning point of the Civil War when the Union turned back a Confederate invasion.
What is Gettysburg?
he spoke about the evils of slavery.
Who was Frederick Douglass?
Anti-slavery politicians opposed the annexation of this giant state in 1845.
What is Texas?
This Eli Whitney invention caused a dramatic increase in demand for slaves.
What is the cotton gin?
This general led the Army of Northern Virginia.
Who was Robert E. Lee?
Victory at this river city divided the Confederacy in half.
What is Vicksburg
He served as the President of the CSA.
Who was Jefferson Davis?
Henry Clay offered this compromise in 1820 to maintain the balance of power between slave and free states.
What is the Missouri Compromise?
The election of this man in 1860 caused the immediate secession of 7 states in the Lower South.
Who was Abraham Lincoln?
Lincoln said the war could not come to a close until he held this key southern city.
What was Vicksburg?
This battle was the Civil War's "Lexington & Concord."
What is the Battle of Fort Sumter?
He pushed for passage of the Kansas-Nebraska Act and debated Abraham Lincoln several times in 1858.
Who was Stephen Douglas?
This congressional action allowed southern bounty hunters to capture escaped slaves in the North.
What was the Fugitive Slave Act?
(Compromise of 1850)
This act declared free all slaves living in states rebelling against the Union on January 1, 1863.
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
He earned his famous nickname at First Manassas (1st Battle of Bull Run).
Who was Stonewall Jackson?
Lee's retreat from this bloody battlefield gave Lincoln the opportunity to issue the Emancipation Proclamation.
What is Antietam?
He wrote about protesting against slavery in the essay On the Duty of Civil Disobedience.
Who was Henry Davis Thoreau?
This abolitionist and his sons murdered pro-slavery sympathizers in Bloody Kansas.
Who was John Brown?
This political bargain allowed the territories of the Mexican Cession to decide the issue of slavery by popular sovereignty.
What was the Compromise of 1850?
This Union general captured Atlanta then waged total war on his famous March to the Sea.
Who was William Tecumseh Sherman?