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" I will by any means help emancipate the slaves."
Who is an abolitionist?
100
What were the years of the Civil War?
1861-1865
100
Abraham Lincoln became President
Why did the South finally secede?
100
The right to reject federal laws
What is nullification?
100
A battlefield map drawn by a soldier who served in a battle
What is a primary source?
200
President of the Confederate States of America
Who is Jefferson Davis?
200
The Battle of Gettysburg
What was the only battle fought in the North?
200
Anaconda Plan
What was the plan to make the South surrender?
200
Withdrawal from an alliance
What is seccesion?
200
"Powers not delegated to the U.S. by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the states respectively, or to the people."
What is the 10th Amendment?
300
Commanding general of the Confederacy
Who is Robert E. Lee?
300
Creation of the Freedmen's Bureau Sharecropping system developed in the South
What is Reconstruction?
300
Union
Who won the Civil War?
300
different geographies, economies and opinions on tariffs and slavery
What is sectionalism?
300
Lincoln proclaimed slaves in rebelling states would be free
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
400
His election led to the secession of South Carolina and was later assassinated
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
400
Confederate troops fired on Fort Sumter
What is the beggining of the Civil War?
400
Antietam
What was the battle that had the most casualties?
400
Battle that split the confederacy in two
What is Vicksburg?
400
The man who proposed compromises to avoid the Civil War
Who is Henry Clay?
500
I led a slave revolt at Harper's Ferry
Who is John Brown
500
Where Southern General Lee surrendered to Northern General Grant
What is the Appomattox Courthouse?
500
Emancipation Proclamation
What was the document that freed the slaves?
500
Taxes on imported goods
What are Tarrifs?
500
Decision that proclaimed slaves were property and not people
What is the Dred Scott decision?