Names everyone needs to know
This heroic former slave escaped to the north where she joined the Underground Railroad and returned to the south to free other slaves.
Who is Harriet Tubman?
This slave felt divinely inspired to lead a slave rebellion, wherein he murdered his masters family and some 60 other white men, women, and children.
Who is Nat Turner?
This president signed the Emancipation Proclamation, freeing the slaves in rebel states
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
This was Congress' response to Lincoln's 10 percent plan, which he pocket-vetoed.
What is the Wade-Davis Bill?
This was the head general for the Confederate Army in the American Civil War.
Who is Robert E. Lee?
This senator from Massachusetts was beaten heavily with a cane by Preston Brooks in retaliation for a speech insulting his cousin, Andrew Butler
Who is Charles Sumner?
This terribly petty and brash man became president when Lincoln was assassinated.
Who is Andrew Johnson?
This was the first and most important big compromise concerning the North vs. South politics, creating a line dividing slave states from free states
What is the Missouri Compromise?
The end of a quote from the Mexican War: "remember the ________!"
What is the Alamo?
This general of the Union forces replaced Winfield Scott, but was too cautious of a leader, leading to his removal. He later reappeared to run against Abraham Lincoln for the presidency.
Who is George McClellan?
This Civil War general won the 1868 Presidential election.
Who is Ulysses S. Grant?
This act basically nullified the Missouri Compromise by splitting the territory northwest of Missouri into two territories, who could decide the question of slavery popular sovereignty
What is the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
The "right arm" of the Confederate General in the American Civil War
This compromise made California a free state, while making other territories won in the Mexican War subject to popular sovereignty in allowing or disallowing slavery
What is the Compromise of 1850?
This Union general led his famous march from Atlanta to Savannah, Georgia, burning farmland along the way.
Who is William T. Sherman?
This president approved the annexation of Texas
Who is James K. Polk?
What is the Battle of Antietam Creek?
The title of Lincoln's famous speech of less than 300 words, for the dedication of a cemetery.
What is the "Gettysburg Address?"
The month, day, and year the Civil War ended.
What is April 9th, 1865?
This man assassinated Abraham Lincoln at Ford's Theatre.
Who is John Wilkes Booth?
This president (who led the American forces in the Mexican war) suggested California be admitted as a free state.
Who is Zachary Taylor?
The conflict surrounding this fort was the official start of the Civil War
What is Fort Sumter?
This is the place the Civil War officially ended, when Lee and Grant met to discuss terms of the south's surrender
What is Appomattox?
This is the period between the end of the Civil War and the Compromise of 1877, dealing largely with putting the south back together with the nation.
What is the Reconstruction?
This is one of the TWO nicknames given to republican-aligned government officers in the south
What are Carpetbaggers or Scalawags?
This president was elected in 1876, though the contested results of that election necessitated the "Compromise of 1877."
Who is Rutherford B. Hayes?
Lincoln's assassin yelled this Virginian motto after killing the president
This was the southern belief in the strength of their economic value because of a certain "cash-crop."
What is "Cotton is king" (Cotton-topia)?