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100
The man who started the Democratic-Republican Party. He also wrote the Declaration of Independence.
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
100
The war philosophy of destroying everything in sight.
What is Total War?
100
This occurred in places like New York City as a protest of the military draft.
What is a draft riot?
100
The events over two days in Lawrence and Pottawatomie, Kansas.
What is Bleeding Kansas?
100
Abraham Lincoln belonged to this politcal party.
What is the Republican Party?
200
The famous black soldier who was executed for mutiny for leading a protest during the Civil War.
Who is William Walker?
200
Name of the battle in which President Lincoln made a famous speech at following the battle.
What is Gettysburg?
200
This declaration freed all of the slaves in the Confederate states as of January 1, 1863.
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
200
Term that means withdrawl from the Union.
What is secession?
200
Andrew Johnson's plan called for the Confederate states to rejoin the Union by ratifying what?
What is the Thirteenth Amendment?
300
Two famous African American women who acted as nurses during the Civil War.
Who are Sojourner Truth and Harriet Tubman?
300
The name of the new weapon used in the Civil War.
What is the rifled musket?
300
This Reconstruction organization started as a social group for former Confederate soldiers, but soon became a violent group which tried to intimidate African Americans.
What is the Ku Klux Klan?
300
The man who led a raid at Harpers Ferry.
Who is John Brown?
300
These laws enacted in the South during Reconstruction to take away the rights of African Americans were referred to these types of laws.
What are Jim Crow laws?
400
Name of the Radical Republican who butted heads with Andrew Johnson during Reconstruction because he did not do enough to protect the rights of African Americans.
Who is Thaddeus Stevens?
400
What body of water was extremely important to control during the Civil War?
What is the Mississippi River?
400
Term that means a strong concern for local interests.
What is sectionalism?
400
The name of the Chief Justice who ruled in the Dred Scott Decision.
Who is Joseph Taney?
400
The Supreme Court case that established "separate but equal" as constitutional.
What is Plessy v. Ferguson?
500
Name of the Confederate general during the Civil War.
Who is Robert E. Lee?
500
Name of the fort where the first shots of the Civil War were fired on April 12, 1861.
What is Fort Sumter?
500
Term for a Northerner who sympathized with the South during the Civil War.
What is a Copperhead?
500
The bloodiest one day battle of the Civil War.
What is Antietam?
500
What did the Fourteenth Amendment do?
What is gave citizenship to African Americans? (Equal protection and due process)