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100
Who wrote Uncle Tom’s Cabin?
Harriet Beacher Stowe
100
People who didn’t believe in slavery were called what?
abolitionists
100
Who was the President of the Union and who was the President of the Confederacy?
Abraham Lincoln and Jefferson Davis
100
What was the first battle that began the Civil War?
Fort Sumter
100
In what part of the US were more battles fought: the North or the South?
South
200
This compromise allowed California to be admitted as a free state.
What is the Compromise of 1850?
200
What invention sped up the harvesting of cotton and increased the demand for slaves?
Eli Whitney's Cotton Gin
200
Abraham Lincoln was a member of this political party, which was formed by Whigs and Democrats opposed to the institution of slavery.
What is the Republican Party?
200
What battle was considered the “turning point” of the war?
Gettysburg, PA
200
The Union represented the __________ part of the US and the Confederacy represented the ________ part.
Northern; Southern
300
This book, written by Harriet Beecher Stowe, put the harsh reality of slavery out in the open.
What is Uncle Tom's Cabin?
300
This decree by Abraham Lincoln officially ended slavery in the United States.
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
300
This man was the top general of the Confederacy and considered the most brilliant military mind of his day.
Who was Robert E. Lee?
300
General Sherman employed this strategy to burn down the city of Atlanta.
What is Total War?
300
This side's strategy included fighting a defensive war.
What was the South (Confederacy)?
400
Guerilla warfare was used in this conflict that broke out in the Kansas and Nebraska territories.
What is " Bleeding Kansas?"
400
This amendment to the Constitution outlawed the institution of slavery.
What is the 13th Amendment?
400
The time period after the end of the Civil War in which the leaders of the nation tried to rebuild the South and reunite it with the North.
What is Reconstruction?
400
Sherman's March to the Sea ended up in this Southern city.
What is Savannah, Georgia?
400
This side had fewer railroad, better generals, and a lack of industries.
What was the South?
500
Besides slavery, what other major issue increased tensions between the Union and Confederacy?
The issue of states' rights
500
This term refers to the seperation of blacks and whites from the 1870's until the 1950's.
What is segregation?
500
The members of Congress passed these three amendments after the Civil War to help African Americans.
What are the 13th, 14th, and 15th amendments?
500
The place where Robert E. Lee surrendered his armies to Ulysses S. Grant.
What is the Appomattox Courthouse?
500
The very last battle of the Civil War took place in this state.
What is Texas?