The holding in bondage of another human being. The institution existed both in the North and South prior to the Civil War but had been abolished in all Northern state constitutions by the outbreak of war.
What is slavery
100
The president of the United States during the Civil War. He was assassinated five days after the end of the war.
Who is Abraham Lincoln
100
It was the site upon which the first shots were fired by the South in 1861, which claimed a federal fort off the coast of South Carolina.
What is Fort Sumter
100
The president who succeeded Lincoln and who was a slave owner.
Who is Andrew Johnson
100
The name meaning "extreme" assumed by members of a political party who demanded civil rights for freed people, and who forwarded the Civil Rights Act of 1866 and the 13th-15th Amendments.
What is Radical Republicans
200
The term for the South leaving the Union, which first South Carolina and then other states of the Confederacy did following Lincoln's election in 1860.
What is secession
200
The general of the Rebel Confederate Army. He is considered one of the finest generals ever in US history.
Who is Robert E. Lee
200
This was the term for the type of war that the North, and especially William T. Sherman, used to force the South into surrender.
What is total war
200
The name of the laws passed by Southern states in 1865 and 1866 that discriminated against African Americans and limited their freedom.
What are black codes
200
This amendment gave African Americans the rights of citizenship. As a result hundreds entered political office at the local, state, and federal levels during the period of Congressional Reconstruction (1866-1876).
What is the 14th Amendment
300
The name of pro-slavery people from Missouri and other states who went to Kansas to vote for slavery, and to intimidate others to do so, following the passage of the Kansas-Nebraska Act in 1853.
What is border ruffians
300
The Little Giant who debated Lincoln and won a Senate seat in Illinois before the Civil War. He argued for popular sovereignty and states' rights.
Who is Stephen Douglas
300
Lincoln delivered this executive order after the Battle of Antietam, a Union victory in Maryland in 1862. Though it was only partial, it turned the Union's war aim to freeing the slaves.
What is the Emancipation Proclamation
300
The terrorist organization that used fear, intimidation, and terror against non-white groups in the American South after the Civil War.
What is the Ku Klux Klan or KKK
300
This term means separation of races, and it came to apply to public and private life in both the American north and south after Reconstruction officially ended in 1876.
What is segregation
400
This Act was part of the Compromise of 1850 and it made it law for northerners to participate in the institution of slavery by returning runaway slaves. It incensed northerners who previously were OK with slavery, as long as it stayed in the South.
What is the Fugitive Slave Act
400
The abolitionist who led an unsuccessful raid on the federal armory at Harpers Ferry that ended with his capture. He was sentenced to death by hanging.
Who is John Brown
400
Lincoln used the dedication ceremony for this battlefield cemetery to honor the fallen Union soldiers and redefine the purpose of the war, and indeed of the United States government, in his historic address.
What is Gettysburg
400
The name of the organization that sent Northerners to the South to help provide an education, food, clothing, and to help African Americans sign contracts with planters.
What is the Freedmen's Bureau
400
This amendment gave African Americans the right to vote. Southern governments took away the franchise of blacks under the Jim Crow laws, which enacted obstacles to voting such as poll taxes and literacy tests.
What is the 15th Amendment
500
This issue was supported by Stephen A. Douglas in the Kansas-Nebraska Act. It called for the people in new states to for vote for themselves on the expansion of slavery into their state.
What is popular sovereignty
500
The Northern Union general who led an army march through the South in the final year of the war, laying waste to everything in its wake. He said, "War is hell."
Who is William T. Sherman
500
The site of the South's surrender to the Union forces in 1865.
What is Appomattox Court House
500
The name of a Northerner who went South after the Civil War looking to make a profit.
What is carpetbagger
500
The president who pulled Northern troops out of the South in 1876, signaling the official end of Reconstruction and the beginning of the Jim Crow era in the South.