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100
Author of the anti-slavery sentimentalist novel Uncle Tom's Cabin.
Who is Harriet Beecher Stowe?
100
Lincoln gave one of his most famous (if not most famous) speeches after this battle changing the tone of the civil war to be less about Union and more about freedom and equality.
What is Gettysburg?
100
This governmental body oversaw the rehabilitation of former slaves assisting with education, housing, employment, as well as voting rights.
What is the Freedman's Bureau?
100
POTUS elected in 1852 he oversaw the "Bleeding Kansas" debacle, tried to reinforce the Fugitive Slave Act, made the Gadsden Purchase and supported the Ostend Manifesto (to annex Cuba).
Who is Franklin Pierce?
100
Chief Justice Roger Taney used this case to rule that slaves were not and could never be citizens and were property (that could not be taken) regardless of where they moved.
What is Dred Scott v. Sanford?
200
Frequently called the first "Dark Horse" candidate and nicknamed "Young Hickory" after his mentor Andrew Jackson, this pro-slavery POTUS elected in 1844 would lead the US in a war with Mexico acquiring Texas and California (and other stuff too)
Who is James K. Polk?
200
This was the codename of the Union plan at the start of the Civil War.
What is the Anaconda Plan?
200
He called his post-war plan "the Restoration" instead of the "Reconstruction."
Who is Andrew Johnson?
200
These two Congressman were the participants in an infamous altercation in the Senate where the Northern Senator was beaten with a cane after giving a fiery speech about the evils of slavery by a Southern Representative. (both names required)
Who are Charles Sumner and Preston Brooks?
200
This case ruled that military courts established during the war could not be used against civilians where civilian courts existed. (Overruled the verdicts in a number of military commissions) (Daily Double)
What is ex Parte Milligan?
300
This act codified the idea of "squatter" or "popular sovereignty" regarding slave or free status of territories and formally repealed the Missouri Compromise.
What is the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
300
The Union general's decisive (and TOTAL) victories helped propel Lincoln to win a second term in 1868. (Daily Double)
Who is General William Tecumseh Sherman?
300
Louisiana was the first state to implement these new laws during the Reconstruction to ensure white supremacy in the South. (Daily Double)
What are the Black Codes? I will not accept segregation for this one...
300
The Free Soil Party wanted the Western Territories to be free for this reason.
What is more land for whites only...?
300
This case ruled that a state did not have an obligation to repay war bonds issued while it was committing active treason (a little hyperbole on my part). Also ruled that the states in the Confederacy had never legally left the Union (which is legally indestructible).
What is Texas v. White?
400
Radical abolitionist John Brown raided an army depot in this Virginia (now West Virginia) town exacerbating tensions between the North and South.
What is Harper's Ferry?
400
This Virginia military officer was the first to be suggested to Abraham Lincoln to lead the Union Army - he declined.
Who is Robert E. Lee?
400
These Constitutional Amendments are frequently called the 'Civil War' Amendments. (Give the number and general purpose for the correct answer)
What are the 13th Amendment (abolished slavery); 14th Amendment (due process, citizenship); and 15th Amendment (voting rights for black males)?
400
The plan approved by POTUS Pierce to annex Cuba.
What is the Ostend Manifesto?
400
These sets of cases (name both) severely limited the scope of the 15th Amendment. (Daily Double)
What are the Slaughterhouse cases and the Civil Rights cases?
500
Of the five major bills packaged as the Compromise of 1850 this one was the most controversial. (Name the other four for a bonus 100 points.)
What is the (federally enforced) Fugitive Slave Act? Others: 1) California = free state, 2) Texas gives up New Mexico, 3) Utah and NM popular sovereignty, 4) DC abolishes slave TRADE (not slavery).
500
These four (plus part of a fifth) slave states did not secede from the Union. (name all five)
What are Maryland, Delaware, Kentucky, Missouri and West Virginia?
500
This bribery scandal involving Congressmen and Cabinet officials revolved around government contracts and the Union Pacific Railroad.
What is Credit Mobilier?
500
This unsuccessful plan to avoid the Civil War called for a number of constitutional amendments and acts of Congress that would have made slavery forever a part of America.
What is the Crittenden Compromise?
500
This case ruled the the 14th and 15th Amendment when read together did NOT grant women suffrage.
What is Minor v. Happersett?