Who was elected president of the United States in 1860 which caused states in the South to begin seceding?
Who was Abraham Lincoln?
100
The firing on of Fort Sumpter by the Confederates began this.
What is the Civil War?
100
The Missouri Compromise, the Compromise of 1850, and the Kansas-Nebraska Act all tried to settle what problem?
What is slavery?
100
This man assassinated Abraham Lincoln at Ford's Theater in Washington DC on April 14, 1865.
Who is John Wilkes Booth?
100
This battle was the turning point of the Civil War.
What is Gettysburg?
200
This abolitionist was vehemently against slavery and tried to start a rebellion at Harper's Ferry.
Who was John Brown?
200
States that bordered southern states and remained with the Union.
What are Kentucky, Maryland, Missouri, Delaware?
200
This was a secret route led by abolitionists that led escaped slaves to freedom.
What is the Underground Railroad?
200
This group's plan for readmitting the Confederate States back into the Union involved military governors and punished the South.
What are Radical Republicans?
200
This paraphrase, The Constitution, meant to unify the nation became a source of sectional discord, suggests this.
What is the North and the South disagreed over many things?
300
This man was the first, last, and only president of the Confederate States of America.
Who was Jefferson Davis?
300
Sectionalism, state's rights, agricultural society describe this section of the USA before the Civil War.
What is the South?
300
The Fugitive Slave Law required people to do what (even if they disagreed with slavery)?
What is return runaway slaves to their owners?
300
This part of the country wanted a strong federal government, tariffs on foreign goods, had a manufacturing based economy and wanted an end to slavery.
What is the North?
300
She was a famous nurse during the Civil War and credited with starting the American Red Cross.
Who is Clara Barton?
400
Frederick Douglass, Nat Turner, Sojourner Truth, Harriet Tubman, William Lloyd Garrison were all important members of this movement.
What is the Abolitionists movement? (people who wanted freedom for slaves).
400
Another name for the United States of America (the states that did not secede).
What is the Union?
400
This decision by a Supreme Court judge said that a slave was property no matter where their masters took them, no one of African descent could be a citizen, and that Congress did not have the power to abolish slavery.
What is the Dred Scot decision?
400
These amendments did the following: a. abolish slavery, b. grant citizenship to everyone born in US (except Native Americans) c. gave voting rights to men born in the US.
What are a. 13th amendment b. 14th amendment and c. 15th amendment?
400
Some Northerner opposed abolition because of this.
What is they thought freed slaves would get their jobs?
500
These people wrote the following abolitionists texts: North Star, Uncle Tom's Cabin, The Liberator.
Who are (The North Star)Frederick Douglass
(Uncle Tom's Cabin-which caused people in the North to turn against slavery)Harriet Beecher Stowe
(The Liberator)William Lloyd Garrison?
500
General Robert E. Lee of the Confederate States of American seceded to General U. S. Grant at the place on April 9, 1865.
What is Appomattox, Virginia?
500
This woman made a speech comparing other life to lives of white women in which she says that often she did not get enough food, she had been beaten, and some of her 13 children were sold into slavery.
Who is Sojourner Truth?
500
The president of the United States during the Civil War.
Who was Abraham Lincoln?
500
This leader created a plan for Reconstruction, wanted to keep the Union together and not punish the South, issued the Emancipation Proclamation.