What was Bleeding Kansas?
The Kansas-Nebraska Act triggered violent clashes between pro-slavery and anti-slavery settlers in Kansas, as both sides sought to influence the vote on slavery.
Name two of the South's strengths
Cotton Money
Donkeys and Mules
Homefield Advantage/Easy Objective
This freed any slaves in rebelling territories.
Emancipation Proclamation
These were passed in order to undermine Freedmen.
Black Codes
What was the name of the Union's final, and best, general?
Ulysses S. Grant
What was the first state to secede from the Union?
South Carolina
What was instituted during the Civil War in order to get more soldiers?
The Draft
What is a a war that is unrestricted in terms of the weapons used, the territory or combatants involved, or the objectives pursued, especially one in which the laws of war are disregarded?
Total War
This was set up to help freedmen learn how to read, reunite families, and to clothe and feed people.
Freedmen's Bureau
Who was Lincoln's most self-destructive General? He was known for being hired, and fired, twice and being a super perfectionist.
George McClellan
Where was the arsenal that John Brown attacked located?
Harper's Ferry, Virginia
(Bonus) c:
What was the name of the Fort that was attacked to start the Civil War?
Fort Sumter
This battle was an especially violent battle that was fought over boots. It was remembered espically by a famous speech and a pitiful charge up a hill.
The Battle of Gettysburg
What Reconstruction plan did Lincoln support?
Ten-Percent Plan
(Bonus) c:
What was the name of the General that led an infamous "March to the Sea"?
William Tecumseh Sherman
What was the decision in Scott vs. Sanford?
upheld slavery in United States territories
denied the legality of black citizenship in America
declared the Missouri Compromise to be unconstitutional.
This Battle showed the Union that it was going to be a tough and long war.
Battle of Bull Run
Where was the treaty that ended the Civil War signed?
Appomattox Court House
What is a legal arrangement in which a landowner allows a tenant to use the land in return for a majority share of the crops produced on that land?
Sharecropping
What was the name of the General that loved lemons, believed that he had heavier blood in one arm, and was killed by his own men?
Stonewall Jackson
Name three of the Candidates in the 1860 election
Abraham Lincoln
John Bell
Stephen Douglass
John C Breckinridge
The battle at this location was known to be one of the bloodiest battles of the Civil War.
Antietam
Name the two areas of the Confederacy that Grant captured that heavily turned the tide for the Union.
Hint: 1863
New Orleans
Vicksburg (aka Mississippi River)
What was the effect of the Round the Circle tour?
Disaster
Led to Republicans gaining more seats
Who was the president of the Confederate States of America?
Jefferson Davis