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Significant Things To Remember
Causes of the Civil War
LEADERSHIP
BATTLES OF THE CIVIL WAR
End of the War
100
Who's impending presidential election caused some Southern states to leave?
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
100
This was the year that the first Missouri Compromise was presented.
What is 1820?
100
He was the leader of the Confederate Army.
Who is Robert E. Lee?
100
The last battle of the Civil War.
What is the Battle of Vicksburg?
100
This document declared all slaves in the South free.
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
200
The Western river that the Union took control over in order to force the Confederates to surrender.
What is the Mississippi River?
200
The Western state that applied to be added to the United States in 1850.
What is California?
200
He was made commander of the Union forces after a successful 37-day siege.
Who is Ulysses S. Grant?
200
The Confederacy surrendered to the North at which place?
What is Appomattox Courthouse?
200
He was the first African American to be awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor.
Who is William Carney?
300
What years was the Civil War fought?
1861-1865
300
Who was the escaped slave that became a major abolitionist?
Who is Frederick Douglas?
300
This Union General burned a path to the sea in Georgia.
Who is General William T. Sherman?
300
The first battle of the Civil War.
What is the Battle of Fort Sumter?
300
This word means "to end". For example "To end slavery"
What is "abolish"?
400
This word means to "withdraw". For example, "The Southerners threatened to withdraw from the North".
What is Secession?
400
The court case that determined that slaves were property, not people, and thus could never be citizens.
What is the Dred Scott case?
400
He was chosen as the President of the Confederacy?
Who is Jefferson Davis?
400
This battle was considered the first invasion of the Confederacy and the single bloodiest day of the war so far.
What is the Battle of Antietam?
400
This former Union general ran against Lincoln for the presidency in 1864.
Who is George McClellan?
500
The speech Lincoln gave after the bloodiest battle of the Civil War.
What is the Gettysburg Address?
500
What was Eli Whitney's invention that increased the use of slavery?
What is the Cotton Gin?
500
He is the Representative who created the Missouri Compromise of 1820 AND the Compromise of 1850?
Who is Henry Clay?
500
The battle that marked the "Turning Point" of the Civil War?
What is the battle of Gettysburg?
500
This man assassinated Abraham Lincoln.
Who is John Wilkes Booth?