I was President of the United States during the Civil War.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
100
The first shots of the Civil War were fired here.
Where is Fort Sumter?
100
This was the main cause of the Civil War. It separated the North and the South.
What is slavery?
100
Many southern states did this after Lincoln was elected President in 1860.
What is secede.
100
These three groups of people all made contributions to the Civil War effort.
Who are women, immigrants, and African Americans?
200
I was President of the Confederate States of America.
Who is Jefferson Davis?
200
This is where the first major battle of the Civil War took place.
Where is Bull Run?
200
The idea that states, not the federal government, should have final authority over their own affairs.
What is state's rights?
200
This was the plan the Union used to weaken the South by not letting it ship its cotton or bring in goods.
What is the Anaconda Plan?
200
This is the failed attempt by Confederate troops standing shoulder to shoulder at the Battle of Gettysburg to charge Union troops.
What is Pickett's Charge?
300
I helped slaves escape to freedom using the Underground Railroad.
Who is Harriet Tubman?
300
This was the battle with the highest number of casualties in one day with over 2,000 Union casualties and 2,700 Confederate tragedies.
What is the Battle of Antietam?
300
I am the book that opposed slavery.
What is Uncle Tom's Cabin?
300
This said that all slaves living in those parts of the South that were still fighting against the Union would be "then, thenceforward, and forever free."
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
300
I surrendered to Grant at Appomattox after I could not retreat any farther or continue to fight.
Who is General Lee?
400
I wrote the book Uncle Tom's Cabin?
Who is Harriet Beecher Stowe?
400
This battle gave the Union control of the Mississippi River and cut the Confederacy into two parts.
What is the Battle of Vicksburg?
400
The decision made by the Supreme Court that said slaves were a piece of property.
What is the Dred Scott Decision?
400
This allowed Missouri to join the Union as a slave state and Maine to join as a free state keeping the balance between free and slave states.
What is the Missouri Compromise?
400
This was the short but memorable speech given by Abraham Lincoln after the Battle of Gettysburg.
What is The Gettysburg Address?
500
I was known as the great compromiser.
Who is Henry Clay?
500
During this battle Stonewall Jackson was shot by his own troops.
What is the Battle of Chancellorsville?
500
After Abraham Lincoln was elected President in 1860 many southern states did this.
What is secede from the Union?
500
The Kansas Nebraska Act allowed people to vote on whether or not to permit slavery. This cause a conflict where more than 200 people were killed. It was known as...
What is Bleeding Kansas?
500
This was the march from Chattanooga Tennessee to Atlanta Georgia then on to the sea at Savannah Georgia that set fire to and destroyed everything in the path.