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100
This act allowed commissioners to arrest free slaves and send them back to southern states.
What is The Fugitive Slave Act?
100
This term means to formally withdraw from the Union states.
What is secede.
100
This first battle of the war shattered the Union's hope of winning quickly and easily.
What is The First Battle of Bull Run?
100
This was mostly an urban area with lots of people and many factories.
What is The North?
100
He made a March to the Sea using Total War.
Who is William Sherman?
200
This allowed Missouri to enter as a slave state and Maine to enter as a free state.
What is The Missouri Compromise?
200
This person won the 1860 election with both the electoral vote and popular vote.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
200
This battle was the bloodiest single day in American History.
What is The Battle of Antietam?
200
This was the focus of the economy in the South.
What is Agriculture?
200
He is a skilled Confederate General from Virginia.
Who is Stonewall Jackson?
300
States or territories voting to decide whether to allow slavery in their area is known as this.
What is popular sovereignty.
300
This Act divided the Louisiana Territory into two territories and let them vote on whether they would be free or slave territories.
What is the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
300
This battle gave the Union the upper hand and it was a downward spiral for the Confederacy after this battle.
What is The Battle of Gettysburg?
300
They believed the states entered the Union freely and could leave the Union if they wanted to.
Who is the South?
300
She was a Civil War nurse and later started the American Red Cross.
Who is Clara Barton?
400
This allowed California to enter as a free state and the Southwest Territories to vote on the slavery issue.
What is the Compromise of 1850?
400
People that wanted to end slavery immediately were called this.
What is Abolitionists?
400
The was the site of the first shots of the Civil War.
What is Fort Sumter?
400
They believed slavery was morally wrong, cruel and inhumane, and against their democracy.
What is the North?
400
The purpose of this speech was to remind Americans of the reasons that the Civil War was being fought.
What is The Gettysburg Address?
500
He was an Abolitionist "terrorist" who believed blood would be required to end slavery.
Who is John Brown?
500
This statement that President Lincoln wrote was supposed to end slavery in all the southern states.
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
500
This battle gave the Union control over the Mississippi River.
What is the Battle of Vicksburg.
500
Their economy depended on cash crops and the slaves needed to grow them.
Who is the South?
500
He was a freed African-American who became a captain in the Navy and served heroically.
Who is Robert Smalls?