Slavery + potpourri
A state w/o legal slavery
This state broke in two, with its main half seceding but its WESTERN half becoming a new state and staying with the Union
Virginia
This President pointed out that there was no mechanism in the Constitution allowing states to secede
Abraham Lincoln (my man!)
After this battle, the first to hold this name, the Union realized that the Confederate rebellion would not be easily defeated
Battle of Bull Run
This doctrine instructed European empires to avoid interfering in Latin American politics (hint: Twas named for the Fifth President)
This western state was admitted to the Union as a free state in 1850, shifting the balance of slave and free states in the Senate
California
What feature delayed such states as Arkansas, Virginia, Tennessee and North Carolina from seceding as quickly as states south of them?
Mountainous terrain
This woman was one of the Underground Railroad's most famous and successful "conductors"
Harriet Tubman
Republican Party
This river separated Illinois, Indiana, Ohio and Pennsylvania (free states) from Kentucky and Virginia (slave states)
Ohio River
What was one civil right that most slave states refused to recognize (even if some individual slave owners, like George Washington, chose to treat such a right as valid?)
Marriage
Over 200 people died fighting over slavery in this state, which did eventually become a free state
Kansas
This Confederate general earned his nickname at the Battle of Bull Run (last name and nickname are required, bonus if you remember his real first name)
Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson
This year's U.S. presidential election was the SECOND election (after an earlier Senate election in Illinois) to pit Republican Abe Lincoln against Democrat Stephen Douglas
1860
The Carpenter House, near this Indiana city, housed runaway slaves from such states as Kentucky
Evansville
This type of gun replaced the musket as the deadliest Civil War weapon
Rifle
Abraham Lincoln served as a U.S. Representative from this state, despite being born in Kentucky and raised partly in Indiana
Illinois
This Union general succeeded George McClellan and proceeded John Hooker
Ambrose Burnside
The Union Monitor and the Confederate Merrimac were the first two ironclad _________________ to face each other on the battlefield in world history
Warships
This particular Empire preferred a divided USA for the sake of expanding her own colonial ambitions in Latin America
France
This American ship defeated the Confederate Merrimac
USS Monitor
This Confederate general personally opposed slavery, but fought for the Confederacy because his home state seceded
Robert E. Lee
Alexander Stephens was the only Confederate Vice President. Under which Confederate President did he serve?
Jefferson Davis
Union victory at the Battle of Vicksburg gave the Union control of this enormously important river
Mississippi River
How many countries ever formally recognized the Confederate States of America as an independent nation?
None
Zero
Zilch
Nada
Bupkis
Nunca
Cero
Nil