This is the goal of a military operation or series of military operations.
What is an objective?
100
This is a military unit consisting of large guns mainly used in support of soldiers on foot in an attack or to bombard the target of a siege.
What is artillery?
100
The U.S. belief in manifest destiny actually led to war with this nation.
What is Mexico?
100
This was a secret route for slaves to escape to freedom and was successful in creating hope for slaves and dread for slave owners.
What is the Underground Railroad?
100
He was a polarizing figure in America for shedding blood in Kansas and Virginia in an attempt to rid the nation of slavery.
Who is John Brown?
200
This is the process of placing resources and soldiers in battle and adjusting them as the battle continues.
What is tactics?
200
This is a military unit most commonly used in the 19th Century for scouting enemy positions and forces, and to round up enemies fleeing in a rout.
What is cavalry?
200
The push west led to this legislation which allowed for the possibility of slavery in an area where it was once outlawed; it also directly led to bloodshed over the issue of slavery.
What is the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
200
This was the first state to secede from the Union.
What is South Carolina?
200
This was the location of a federal arsenal targeted for capture in order to arm slaves in a rebellion.
What is Harpers Ferry?
300
This is the process of planning the use of soldiers and resources over a series of actions and battles in order to obtain a singular goal.
What is strategy?
300
This was the one resource that the Confederacy had a clear advantage over the Union in at the outset of war.
What is cash crops?
300
The Gold Rush gave California enough citizens to apply for statehood; only the passage of a series of laws known collectively as this, allowed California to become a state.
What is the Compromise of 1850?
300
He sued for his freedom claiming he had lived in a free state and therefore was legally free, but the court ruled against him.
Who is Dred Scott?
300
The result of this convinced the South that they had no political power and saw no alternative but to leave the Union.
What is the Election of 1860?
400
This is the name for a series of military actions all with a single, shared goal.
What is a campaign?
400
These are lines of operation that are most useful for the defensive because it allows for the easy movement of soldiers and resources to needed areas, as well as easy communication.
What are interior lines?
400
This was the name for the territory purchased by the U.S. from Mexico following the Mexican-American War as a result of the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo.
What is the Mexican-Cession?
400
The South was incredibly angered by this, as it appeared to benefit the North by protecting their economic interests, and hurt the South by making their purchases more expensive.
What is a tariff?
400
He was the President who did nothing as seven Southern states left the Union.
Who is James Buchanan?
500
This is controlling what will happen next on the battlefield or in the war; it is gained through success in battle usually.
What is initiative?
500
These lines are the most important for any army, without them the army can't exist.
What are supply lines?
500
This was the city Stephen Douglas hoped would be the "hub" of the transcontinental railroad.
What is Chicago?
500
These were the seven original states of the Confederate States of America.
What is South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, and Texas?
500
This is the belief in leaving a nation which no longer protects your interests.