Issues that divided the nation
Much of America's economy revolved around this institution.
What is slavery?
DOUBLE POINTS
You MUST get BOTH questions correct in order to receive 200 points. If you only get one then you get 100 points and the other team can take the other question.
1. Name the state that was created after it refused to secede with Virginia.
2. Explain the difference between the Confederate and Border States.
1. What is West Virginia?
2. What are Confederate States: Slave states that left the Union
Border States: Slave states that stayed loyal to the Union?
Name the person who won the 1860 election which caused Southern states to secede.
Who was Abraham Lincoln?
This was the first attack by the Confederacy which began the Civil War.
What is Fort Sumter?
This was the major killer during the Civil War.
What is disease?
Tension and violence in Kansas over slavery led to this nickname.
What is "Bleeding Kansas"?
Name the compromise that best completes the list below:
1. _________?__________
2. Compromise of 1850
3. Kansas-Nebraska Act
What is the Missouri Compromise (1820)?
Name the person who was the only president of the Confederate States of America.
Who was Jefferson Davis?
This was the first major land battle and resulted in a Confederate win.
What is the First Battle of Bull Run (aka Manassas)?
True or False: African Americans were paid less than white soldiers and were often under the leadership of white men.
What is True?
Identify the following issue as Cultural, Slavery, or Political:Reform grew in the North, fed by the Second Great Awakening, aspirations of social movement, and activist women.
What are Cultural issues?
Decide which statement about the Fugitive Slave Act is TRUE:
What is "Was popular with Southern states because it increased the slave labor their agricultural economy needed"?
Who was Ulysses S. Grant?
DOUBLE POINTS!!! Answer both questions correctly to get double the points. If you only get one question correct then you still get 300 points (instead of 600) and the other team can try to steal.
1. Name the document which made ending slavery the focus of the War.
2. Name the document which stated the Civil War was the ultimate test for democratic government.
1. What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
2. What is the Gettysburg Address?
Women were left to run ___________ in the North and ___________ in the South.
What are businesses and plantations?
Identify the following issue as Constitutional, Economic, or Political: A major conflict was states' rights versus strong central government.
What are Constitutional issues?
Name the following component that was NOT included in the Compromise of 1850
What is "Missouri entered the Union as a slave state"?
Name the former enslaved African American who promoted equality in the Civil War and created the United States Colored Troops.
Who was Frederick Douglass?
You must get BOTH questions correct to earn points.
1. This battle secured Union control of the Mississippi River, allowing the North to divide the South.
2. This battle is commonly known as the turning point of the war
1. What is the Battle of Vicksburg?
2. What is the Battle of Gettysburg?
This was happened to Confederate money at the end of the Civil War.
What is it became worthless?
Decide which of the following statements about the North and South prior to the Civil War are TRUE.
What is "All of the above"?
When people voted directly on the issue of slavery in their state, it was called:
What is "popular sovereignty"?
Name the woman who created the American Red Cross.
Name the two women who worked as Union spies.
Who was Clara Barton?
Who was Mary Bowser and Elizabeth Van Lew?
This person surrendered to Grant at this location.
You must name both to get any points!
Who is Lee at Appomattox Court House?
Lincoln sought to reconstruct the nation by bringing Southern states back into the Union after _________ percent of voters accepted the end of slavery.
What is 10?