People
Battles
Documents
Vocabulary
Etc.
100
President of the Union, his election made the southern states seceede
Who is Abraham Lincoln
100
First Battle of the Civil War
What is the Battle of Fort Sumter?
100
Helped slave owners recover their runaway slaves
from the North.
What is the Fugiatve Slave Act
100
Crops you sell, not eat
What are Cash Crops?
100
The region whose primary economic activity in 1861 was the cultivation of cotton?
What are the Southern/Confederate States
200
President of the Confederacy
Who is Jefferson Davis
200
Bloodiest Battle of the Civil War (Made the President give a speech at this location)
What is Gettysburg?
200
Slavery in each territory was to be decided by popular
sovereignty.
What is the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
200
Huge cash crop farms that were worked on by slaves in the Southern States
What are Plantations?
200
The region whose primary economic activity in 1861 was industry?
What are the Northern/Union States?
300
Head of the Union Army
Who is Ulysses S. Grant?
300
Bloodiest Single Day of the War
What is Antietam
300
Preserved balance of free and slave states and said
that congress would not regulate slavery in territories.
California becomes a free state, no slave trade in D.C.,
Popular Sovereignty in Mexican Session.
What is the Compromise of 1850
300
To be freed
What is Emancipation?
300
Supreme Court Decision that took African American citizenship rights and legalized slavery in every state
What is Dred Scott v. Sanford/The Dred Scott Decision?
400
Head of the Confederate Army
Who is Robert E. Lee
400
Last Battle of the Civil War
What is Appomatox Courthouse
400
Document Lincoln wrote that freed the slaves?
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
400
People care more for their own "section" than the country as a whole
What is Sectionalism?
400
Union's biggest advantages against the Confederacy
(Give at least 3)
What are:
Rail Tracks
An industrial (bigger, more money, can supply soldiers better) economy
A larger population
Better Generals
500
2 people: First Black Medal of Honor Winner and First Hispanic Medal of Honor Winner
Who are William Carney and Philip Bazaar?
500
Turning Point of the Civil War and cut the Confederacy in half
What is Vicksburg
500
Speech after a major in honor of the dead Union soldiers and stated the Union was worth fighting for
What is the Gettysburg Address?
500
Conflict between pro-slavery and anti-slavery people in
Kansas from 1854-1859
What is Bleeding Kansas
500
The difference between the economy of the Western territories and the economies of the North and the South
What is the fact that the western territories had cheap land and natural resources?