Causes of Civil War
The book written by Harriet Beecher Stowe that showcased the horrors of slavery
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What is Uncle Tom's Cabin?
What is Bull Run?
The leading general of the Union forces.
Who is Ulysses S. Grant?
The leading general of the Confederate forces.
Who is Robert E. Lee?
The side won the Civil War.
What is the Union?
This person was the "conductor" of the Underground Railroad
Who is Harriet Tubman?
This was known as the single bloodiest battle of the Civil War.
What is Antietam?
The President of the United States during the Civil War.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
The person that gave the famous "Gettysburg Address"
Capital of the Confederacy.
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What is Richmond, Virginia?
This event was a direct result of the Kansas-Nebraska Act.
What is "Bleeding Kansas?"
This was the location of the final surrender of the Civil War.
Where is Appomattox Courthouse?
The person that ran against Abraham Lincoln in the 1860 election.
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Who is Stephen Douglas?
The president of the Confederate States during the Civil War.
Who is Jefferson Davis?
What is the Anaconda plan?
When Missouri joined the U.S. as a slave state, this state joined as a free state.
What is the battle of Gettysburg?
The runaway slave that would eventually work closely with Abraham Lincoln
The person that assassinated Abraham Lincoln.
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Who is John Wilkes Booth?
The declaration made by Lincoln that freed all the slaves in the Confederate states.
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
Describe what happened during the Dred Scott case?
1. Dred Scott was a slave in a slave state, moved to Wisconsin and lived as a free man
2. Eventually moved back to his slave state and was treated as a slave again
3. Dred Scott sued his owners claiming that he was a free man
4. Supreme court ruled that he was property, and did not have the right to represent himself in court.
The Siege of Vicksburg ended on this day when the Confederates surrendered.
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When is July 4th?
The person who got beaten nearly to death in the middle of congress.
Who is Charles Sumner?
This person ran against Lincoln in the election of 1864
Who is George B. McClellan?
The famous document that Abraham Lincoln referenced in his "Gettysburg Address."
What is the Declaration of Independence?