Build up to the Civil War
What the South heavily dependent on for farming.
What are slaves? (accept anything that is closely related to forced, involuntary labor. eg. slavery or forced labor.)
This compromise said that a new act called the Fugitive Slave Act would be passed in return for California and Utah to join the Union.
What is the Compromise of 1850?
What was the event that started the Civil War.
What is Fort Sumter?
Who was the general of the March to the Sea and the Atlanta campaign.
Who is General William Sherman?
What was the prison that had the highest casualty rate in the Civil War.
What is Andersonville? (accept Camp Sumter)
What the North was heavily dependent on for their economy.
What is industry? (Accept factories, manufacturing, etc.)
What was the Fugitive Slave Act?
What is the act that made anyone to turn in any suspected runaway slave? (accept any answer around this definition)
Was the Union blockade successful at the start and why or why not.
What is it was unsuccessful because Southern runners were able to get through the blockade still. (Accept answers around this)
Where did the March to the Sea start from?
How many prisoners died (approximately) in Andersonville.
What is 13,000?
The belief that a state's interests were more important than the interests of the federal government.
What is States' Rights?
This person won the election in 1860.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
What side of the war was winning at the start?
What is the South?
What was the proclamation that gave the South an ultimatum to either keep their slaves and stop fighting or to keep fighting and lose slaves.
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
Who followed Abraham Lincoln's Presidency?
Who is Andrew Johnson?
What was the action that South Carolina took on the North's tariffs.
What is nullification? (accept nullify or nullifying)
What was the group of officials in Georgia that supported the Compromise of 1850.
What is the Georgia Platform?
Who was the general of the Confederates at the second Bull Run?
Where would slavery be abolished in the Emancipation Proclamation.
What is the rebelling states (accept the Confederates, South, etc.)
How tall was Abraham Lincoln?
What is six foot four inches?
This Supreme Court case ruled that slaves were property and thus couldn't sue or have rights.
What is the Dred Scott case?
What was the first state to secede the Union.
This was the second state to secede from the Union.
What is Mississippi?
When did the Civil War end?
What is April 9, 1865?
Who was the first person to die in the Civil War?
Who is Daniel Hough?