People
Battles and Events
Vocabulary
Causes
Wild Card
100

Who was President of the UNITED STATES during the Civil War?

Abraham Lincoln

100

This event started the Civil War

Attack on Fort Sumter
100

States that did not secede, but practiced slavery

border states

100

Letting the people decide the issue

popular sovereignty

100

Where would you find more factories in the 1800s, North or South?

North

200

General of the Union Army, future president 

Ulyssess S Grant

200

Site of Confederacy surrender

Surrender at Appomattox

200

Letting the people decide the issue

popular sovereignty

200

What did the Southern states do when Lincoln was elected in 1860?

Secede from the Union (United States)

200

Secret network of routes and safe houses to lead people to slavert

Underground Railroad
300

General of the CONFEDERATE army

Robert E Lee

300

Turning point, deadliest battle 

Battle of Gettysburg

300

Southern side or states in the Civil war, practiced slavery

Confederacy

300

What is a state's rights to chose?

State's rights

300

Capital of the Confederacy

Richmond

400

Who was president of the CONFEDERATE states during the Civil War?

Jefferson Davis

400

North gains control of Mississippi River

Battle of Vicksburg

400

Northern side or states in the Civil war, against/opposed slavery

Union

400

Taxes on imports, pay more for items from other countries  

tariffs

400

Abolitionist and reformer, escaped North to freedom

Frederick Douglass

500

Nurse in the Civil War, created the American Red Cross 

Clara Barton

500

First major battle in Northern Virginia 

First Battle of Manassas (Bull Run)

500

Breaking away to make a new country

secede

500

Practiced by the Southern states, not Northern

Slavery

500

Capital of the Union

Washington DC