The War
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Extra Hard Questions
100
At the start of the war the North contained 71% of this national infrastructure which would prove very valuable for troop movement. Over the course of the war the Union would add 4,000 more miles of this.
What is railroad track?
100
Double Jeopardy!
This Confederate prison ended up housing over 3x more Union POWs than it was intended to, leading to starvation and death
What was Andersonville Prison?
100
This speech was meant to commemorate the sacrifice of tens of thousands of men who lost their lives at the bloodiest battle of the Civil War.
What was the Gettysburg Address?
100
The invention of this machine in the late 1700s led to a agricultural boom and a rise in slavery in the 1800s.
What is the Cotton Gin?
100
This man was an abolitionists, worked in the Philadelphia Anti-Slavery Society, and collected fugitive slaves' stories in order to share them later after the Civil War.
Who was William Still?
200
This event was the culmination of the North and the South's different views on states' rights to leave the Union.
What is the Civil War?
200
By drawing this line on the map the Missouri Compromise further divided free and slave states.
What is the 36'30'' line?
200
Many northern readers were influenced by this anti-slavery novel by Harriet Beecher Stowe.
What is Uncle Tom's Cabin?
200
This part of the U.S. constitution prevents Congress from establishing a national religion.
What is the 1st amendment?
200
This 1955 Supreme Court Case, based on the 14th amendment to "equal protection" ended segregation in public schools by demonstrating that separate was not "equal"
What is Brown v. Board of Education?
300
This action changed the tone of the war by focusing the Union war effort on freeing slaves in the Confederacy, as opposed to only preserving the union.
What was the Emancipation Proclamation?
300
This supreme court decision further divided the nation about the issue of slavery and led to an anti-slavery presidential candidate winning the presidential nomination.
What was Dred Scott v. Sanford?
300
Which compromise completes the chronological order.
1) Missouri Compromise (Compromise of 1820)
2) Compromise of 1850
3) _____________________
What is the Kansas- Nebraska Act?
300
This law/ act by the British government infuriated American colonists as it created a tax on all paper goods.
What is the Stamp Act?
300
This Federalist is responsibly for the creation of the first national Bank. Additionally he was Washington's first Secretary of the Treasury.
Who was Alexander Hamilton?
400
In mentioning "freedom" and "protection" this was most likely an appeal to what group of people?
Enslaved Africans in the South
400
The passing of the Kansas Nebraska Act in 1854 allowed certain territories to use this to decide whether or not to allow slavery. Initially it seemed more democratic but in realty it led to a more tension and violence known as Bleeding Kansas.
What is popular sovereignty?
400
After the annexation of Texas, this conflict led to further discord and criticism from Northerners who believed it was an attempt to gain more land to expand slave territory in the southwest.
What was the Mexican- American War?
400
This American document states that "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. "
What is the Declaration of Independence?
400
This event in 1786 proved how weak the Articles of Confederation were and led to the eventual replacement of them with the Constitution.
What was Shay's Rebellion?
500
Of all the strong federal actions taken by Lincoln during the war suspending this this practice drew the most criticism and blow back in the judicial branch.
What is the Writ of Habeas Corpus?
500
This treaty ended the Mexican American war, and gave the U.S. enough land to create 6 more states, in addition to creating more conflict about whether or not these states would be slave or free.
What was the Treaty of Guadeloupe Hidalgo?
500
This man was born free in the North, abducted by slave catchers and held in bondage for 12 years before eventually being released and writing his story in Twelve Years a Slave.
Who was Solomon Northrup?
500
This was the main group working in the textile mills of the North by the 1840s.
Who were Irish immigrant women?
500
This amendment protects your unenumerated rights (rights not explicitly stated)
What is the 9th amendment?