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100
The man who assassinated President Lincoln.
Who is John Wilkes Booth?
100
The location where the Civil War began.
What is Fort Sumter in Charleston harbor.
100
This invention separated the seeds out of the South's most valuable crop.
What is the cotton gin?
100
This edict freed the slaves in all states fighting for the North.
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
100
This made the Pony Express unnecessary.
What is the telegraph?
200
The Union General who cut the South in half in his famous march to the sea.
Who is William T. Sherman?
200
The place where the Civil War ended.
What is Appomattox Courthouse, Virginia?
200
This was the Union's ironclad ship.
What is the Monitor?
200
The doctrine the South proclaimed that called for a weaker Central government and stronger constitutional rights for individual states.
What is state's rights?
200
The man who succeeded Lincoln as President.
Who is Andrew Johnson?
300
The Confederate General who was killed by his own troops.
Who is Stonewall Jackson?
300
This battle turned the tide of the war and ended the Confederate invasion of the North.
What is Gettysburg?
300
This way of escape was run by conductors such as Harriet Tubman.
What is the Underground Railroad?
300
This term describes a tax on imported goods
What is a tariff?
300
This person helped create the American Red Cross.
Who is Clara Barton?
400
The black educator who founded the Tuskegee Institute.
Who is Booker T. Washington?
400
This battle effectively cut the South in half, and gave control of the Mississippi River to the North.
What is Vicksburg?
400
This system describes the South's method of agriculture which was heavily dependent on slave labor.
What is the plantation system?
400
This term describes the people who wanted to outlaw slavery.
What are abolitionists?
400
This man created "God's Little Workshop"
Who is George Washington Carver?
500
The author who wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin.
Who is Harriet Beecher Stowe?
500
This is the location where the Transcontinental Railroad was completed.
What is Promontory Point, Utah?
500
This law said that no state North of a certain line could enter the Union as a slave state.
What is the Missouri Compromise?
500
The capital of the Confederate States of America was here.
What is Richmond, Virginia?
500
This type of decision tries to satisfy both sides of an argument.
What is a compromise?