Causes of the Civil War
Major Battles
Important Events
Reconstruction
Laws and Documents
100

What was the main cause of the Civil War?

What is the debate on Slavery?

100

What was the first battle of the Civil War?  

What is Battle of Fort Sumter?

100

Who was the president of the United States during the Civil War?

Who is Abraham Lincoln?

100

What amendment ended slavery?

What is the 13th Amendment?

100

What document freed enslaved people in Confederate states?

What is the Emancipation Proclamation?

200

What book written by Harriet Beecher Stowe helped grow anti-slavery feelings in the North?

What is Uncle Tom's Cabin?

200

What was the bloodiest single-day battle of the war?  

What is Battle of Antietam?

200

Who was the president of the Confederate States?  

Who is Jefferson Davis?

200

What group was created to help freed slaves after the Civil War?

What is Freedman's Bureau?

200

What speech did Lincoln give to honor fallen soldiers at Gettysburg?

What is the Gettysburg Address?

300

What law allowed people in Kansas and Nebraska to vote on slavery, leading to violence?

What is the Kansas-Nebraska Act?

300

What battle is considered the turning point of the Civil War?  

What is the Battle of Gettysburg?

300

Who was the leading general of the Confederate Army?  

Who is Robert E. Lee?

300

What laws were passed in the South to limit the rights of African Americans?

What are Black Codes or Jim Crow Laws? 

300

What act required escaped enslaved people to be returned to their owners, even if they reached free states?  

What is the Fugitive Slave Act

400

What Supreme Court case ruled that enslaved people were property, not citizens?

What is Dred Scott V. Sanford?

400

What city was captured by Sherman during his "March to the Sea"?

What is Atlanta, Georgia?

400

Who was the Union general that led the March to the Sea?  

Who is William T. Sherman

400

What amendment gave African Americans citizenship? 

What is the 14th Amendment?

400

What was the agreement that brought Missouri in as a slave state and Maine as a free state?

What is the Missouri Compromise?

500

What event in 1860 caused Southern states to begin seceding from the Union?

What is the Election of Abraham Lincoln?

500

Where did General Lee surrender to General Grant, ending the Civil War?  

What is Appomattox Court House?

500

Who was the abolitionist that led a raid on Harpers Ferry?

Who is John Brown?

500

What amendment gave African American men the right to vote?  

What is the 15th Amendment?

500

What law allowed California to enter as a free state and introduced popular sovereignty in Utah and New Mexico?

What is the Compromise of 1850?