This man was President of the U.S. during the Civil War, while Jefferson Davis was President of the Confederacy.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
100
This amendment freed all enslaved people in the U.S.
What is the 13th Amendment?
200
This region was dominated mainly by factories.
What is the North?
200
This court case stated that slaves were only property and could not sue for freedom.
What is the Dred Scott case?
200
This was the speech given by Lincoln freeing the slaves in the rebelling territories.
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
200
This man was a speaker and former escaped slave; he was an abolitionist and helped share his story to show the harsh life slaves in the South had.
Who is Frederick Douglass?
200
This was the group of people who took over Reconstruction after the Civil War after President Lincoln was assassinated.
Who are the Radical Republicans?
300
This compromise stated that anything ABOVE this line would be a free state - below would be slave, temporarily relieving sectional tensions in the West.
What is the Missouri Compromise?
300
This pro-abolitionist book was written by Harriet Beecher Stowe.
What is Uncle Tom's Cabin?
300
The capturing of this essential landmark during the Battle of Vicksburg sealed the Confederacy's fate.
What is the Mississippi River?
300
This man was the general of the Union army during the Civil War.
Who is Ulysses S. Grant?
300
These laws limiting the rights of the former slaves helped to create the 14th amendment.
What are the Black Codes?
400
The Kansas-Nebraska Act stated states could use this to decide about slavery (led to Bleeding-Kansas)
What is popular sovereignty?
400
This state was the first to secede from the U.S. following Abraham Lincoln's election.
What is South Carolina?
400
This side of the war fired upon Fort Sumter to begin the Civil War.
What is the Confederacy?
400
This Confederate general surrendered at the Appomattox Courthouse to end the Civil War.
Who is Robert E. Lee?
400
The 15th amendment allowed all African American males the right to do this.
What is vote?
500
Eli Whitney created what invention that increased slavery and greatly changed the South right before the Civil War?
What is the cotton gin?
500
The Fugitive Slave law which incited many abolitionists at this time was part of this compromise involving California.
What is the Compromise of 1850?
500
This actor and Southern sympathizer assassinated Abraham Lincoln after the Civil War.
Who is John Wilke's Booth?
500
This group was formed after the war during Reconstruction to limit the 14th and 15th amendment.
What is the KKK?
500
This was one of the only groups still not allowed the right to vote after the Civil War Amendments.