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This man was elected President of the United States in 1860.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
This battle was known as the turning point of the Civil War.
What is Gettysburg?
The violence that occurred in Kansas following the Kansas-Nebraska Act is known as:
What is Bleeding Kansas?
The most famous conductor of the Underground Railroad. (Also served as a spy, scout, and nurse during the Civil War)
Who is Harriet Tubman?
This was the first state to officially secede from the Union.
What is South Carolina?
This man was the President of the Confederate States of America.
Who is Jefferson Davis?
This battle was considered the first engagement of the Civil War.
What is Fort Sumter?
This state was the focus of controversy when it applied to become a free state following the Mexican-American War.
What is California?
This man was leader of the Pottawatomie Creek massacre and tried to lead a slave rebellion at Harper's Ferry.
Who is John Brown?
This was issued by Abraham Lincoln and declared that all of the slaves in the South were free.
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
This man was the head general of the Confederate Army?
Who is Robert E. Lee?
This battle featured the bloodiest single day of the War.
What is Antietam?
This act was passed as part of the Compromise of 1850 and required states to return escaped slaves to their owners.
What is the Fugitive Slave Act?
This US Senator was savagely beaten with a cane in the Senate Chamber by Andrew Butler.
Who is Charles Sumner?
This was the Union's plan to essentially suffocate the South during the War. (3 Part Plan)
What is the Anaconda Plan?
This man was the Union general who defeated the Confederacy in the Battle of Atlanta and led his troops on the infamous "March to the Sea".
Who is William T. Sherman?
This was the first major land battle of the Civil War.
What is the 1st Battle of Bull Run/Manassas?
This famous Supreme Court Case confirmed the status of slaves as property and not citizens.
What is Dred Scott vs Sanford (Dred Scott Decision)?
This woman was the author of the best selling novel "Uncle Tom's Cabin".
Who is Harriet Beecher Stowe?
This was the famous speech that President Lincoln gave in which he invoked the principles found in the Declaration of Independence.
What is the Gettysburg Address?
This man was the Confederate general who led the attack on Fort Sumter.
Who is P.G.T. Beauregard?
Stonewall Jackson was shot by friendly fire following this battle.
What is Chancellorsville?
This was a proposed an amendment that would outlaw slavery in any territory that the U.S. gained from Mexico.
What is the Wilmot Proviso?
This was the man who assassinated Abraham Lincoln at Ford's Theater.
Who is John Wilkes Booth?
What is Appomattox?