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This person was President of the United States throughout the Civil War.
Who is Abraham Lincoln
This is a war between citizens of the same country
What is a Civil War
This battle was a turning point in the war for the Union, and afterwards President Lincoln made a historic speech.
What is Gettysburg
This Compromise admitted Maine as a free state, and Missouri as a slave state. It made a balance of free states and slave states.
What is the Missouri Compromise
After this event, Lincoln became President and 11 Southern states seceded from the Union.
What is the Election of 1860
This person was the commanding General of the Confederacy’s Army.
Who is Robert E. Lee
These are rights that states have that are separate from Federal rights
What are State's Rights
This was the first major land battle of the Civil War.
What is Bull Run
This Compromise brought in California as a free state, but allowed Utah and New Mexico to decide for themselves if they would have slaves.
What is the Compromise of 1850
This enslaved person sued for freedom, but the Supreme Court said he had no rights.
Who is Dred Scott
This person was President of the Confederacy (seceded states).
Who is Jefferson Davis
These are states that allowed slavery, but were part of the Union during the Civil War
What are Border States
This battle took place in Tennessee. General Grant and the Union forces were surprised by the Confederates and had thousands of deaths, but won.
What is Shiloh
When this person sued for his freedom, the Supreme Court said that as a Black person, he did not have any citizen’s rights
Who is Dred Scott
When a state attempts to leave the nation it was once a part of
What is Secession
This person was the commanding General of the Union’s Army.
Who is Ulysses S. Grant
This document issued on January 1, 1863, by President Lincoln, declared that all slaves in states of rebellion shall be free.
What is the Emancipation Proclamation
This battle was the bloodiest one-day in American history. After it ended in a draw, President Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation.
What is Antietam
This violence occurred after the Kansas-Nebraska Act, when Kansas was voting to decide if it would have slavery or not.
What is Bleeding Kansas
Union Gen. Grant's defeat of Confederate Gen. Pemberton at this battle gave the Union control of the Mississippi River.
What is Vicksburg
This abolitionist author wrote “Uncle Tom’s Cabin”.
Who is Harriet Beecher Stowe
This is the idea that people living in a territory could, and should, decide whether that territory would allow slavery or not
What is Popular Sovereignty
This series of battles led to General Sherman's March to the Sea, in which much of Georgia was burned to the ground.
What is the Battle of Atlanta
This is where Abolitionist John Brown led a group of about 2 dozen people to raid a federal armory to start a revolution of enslaved people and destroy the institution of slavery.
What is Harper's Ferry
Ms. Kuerzi is a fan of which MLB team?
Who are the Amazin' New York Mets