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What is the immediate cause of the Civil War?
Fort Sumter
100
What was the immediate cause of the Civil War?
Slavery
100
Who was the leader of the Union Army?
Irvin McDowll
100
What is a border state?
A slave state that didn't leave the Union.
100
What was the underlined cause of the Civil War?
Lincoln's election in 1860
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What were the two main compromises?
Missouri Compromise and the Compromise of 1850
200
What was the bloodiest battle?
Battle of Antietam.
200
Who was the Union general in the West?
Grant
200
What were all of the Border States?
Kentucky, Missouri, Maryland, Delaware
200
Where did Lee surrender?
House of Appomattox
300
What was was Harper's Ferry?
A town in present day West Virginia, old-time Virginia.
300
Why was Grant considered the victor at the Battle of Shiloh?
The Confederates were driven back into Mississippi.
300
Who replaced McDowll?
McClellan
300
When did West Virginia leave Virginia?
1863
300
Why did West Virginia leave Virginia?
They had no slaves, didn't want to leave the union
400
Which 2 states became free states according to Henry Clay's compromises.
California, Maine
400
What was the outcome of the Seven Day's Battles?
Lee forced McClellan to retreat.
400
Which general was shot by his own troops?
Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson
400
What were the southern states?
Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, Florida, South Carolina, North Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia, Illinois
400
What was the Wilderness Campaign?
A series of battles in which Grant tried to capture Richmond
500
Why was Lincoln able to win the election of 1860?
Why was Lincoln able to win the election of 1860?
500
Which general died at the Battle of Shiloh
Johnston
500
Who replaced McClellan as the head of the Union army?
Ambrose E. Burnside
500
What were 3 of the northern states?
Maine, New York, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode Island, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Ohio, Indiana, Kansas, Illinois, Michigan, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Iowa, California, Nevada, Oregon
500

What day did Lee surrender?

April 9, 1865