Key Players
Abraham Lincoln
Key Terms
Name the Side
Significant Locations
100

This is the name of the famous actor that assassinated President Abe Lincoln 

John Wilkes Booth 

100

What number President was Abe Lincoln?

16

100

Union

North, Anti-slavery

100

Pro-slavery

Confederacy 

100

The place where most of the battles took place

The Confederacy

200

Name the congressman who was beat almost to death by a cane for delivering a speech against pro-slavery congressmen.  


Name the congressman who gave the beating for an additional 100 pts

Charle Sumner


Preston Brooks 

200

When was Lincoln ELECTED President?

1860 

200

Confederacy

South, Pro-slavery 

200

Anti-slavery 

Union

200

The place where Abe Lincoln was assassinated

Ford's Theater

300

This former slave tried to sue for his freedom in the Supreme Court, but was denied because the Constitution and Founding Fathers did not consider him a person 

Dred Scott

300

Abe Lincoln's wife that helped him be a great President 

Mary Todd Lincoln 

300

When northerners and southerners traveled to Kansas to vote whether the state would be a free or slave state.  They fought and rioted while here.

Bleeding Kansas

300

This side had an Industrial economy 

North/ Union 

300

The first OFFICIAL battle of the Civil War took place here

Fort Sumpter 

400

General _______________ of the Confederacy surrendered to General _______________ of the Union in Richmond, VA which makes the beginning of the end of the Civil War 

Robert E. Lee


Ulysses S. Grant

400

This former slave worked with President Lincoln to create Union strategies to end slavery

Frederick Douglas

400

Secession

to leave an organization



400

This side had an Agricultural economy 

South, Confederacy 

400

The capital of the Confederacy was here

Richmond, VA

500

This guy was the President of the Confederate States of America

Jefferson Davis

500

Name the two main concerns of Lincoln while he was running for President

Get the CSA to rejoin the Union

End slavery 

500

Popular Sovereignty

Decided by vote of the people 

500

The side with higher quality military leadership, and the side that knew the geography where the battles were taking place. 

The Confederacy/ The South 

500

The place where northerners and southerners traveled to vote on if the state would be a free state or slave state

Kansas