Which Union strategy kept the Confederates from trading/selling cotton and buying supplies?
What is the Anaconda Plan
100
Who was the president of the Confederacy?
What is Jefferson Davis
100
This speech called for the freedom of the slaves
What is Emancipation Proclamation
100
What were the advantages for the South?
What is The south had more land (home field), experienced generals and soldiers, fighting for a cause, and fighting a defensive war
100
Who invented the Cotton Gin
What is Eli Whitney
200
This Union general's main strategy was to fight and wear down the enemy
What is General Ulysses S. Grant
200
The attack on this Fort in the South started a Civil War
What is the attack on Fort Sumter
200
This speech was made to honor those soldiers who died
What is The Gettysburg Address
200
What were the advantages for the Union?
What is Union had more people to fight, more railroads and ways to transport goods, more factories to produce clothing and guns
200
A famous conductor of the Underground Railroad was
What is Harriet Tubman
300
This General marched to the sea using this war tactic
What is General Sherman - Total War
300
This general was the leader of the confederates but surrendered his army after the battle of Richmond
What is Robert E. Lee
300
This man was a southern racist who assassinated Abraham Lincoln
What is John Wilkes Booth
300
This man led an attack on Harper's Ferry
What is John Brown
300
This woman was known as the Angel of the Battlefield and started up the American Red Cross
What is Clara Barton
400
Grant's victory at Vicksburg did this
What is it gave the Union control of the Mississippi River
400
One feature of the government of the Confederacy was
What is how poorly the states cooperated due to their claim for "State Rights"
400
What was Lincoln's Problem with General McClellan?
What is He was too reluctant to attack the enemy!
400
This law created an imaginary line where free states were in the North and Slave states were in the south.
What is The Missouri Compromise
400
This Act allowed these two territories to vote if they wanted to allow slavery. It led to both southerners and northerners to move to the territories and tempers flared up!
What is The Kansas-Nebraska Act (Bleeding Kansas)
500
This government organization set up by the Union assisted former slaves
What is The Freedmen's Bureau
500
Which General was famous for his ability to "move and attack"
What is General Stonewall Jackson
500
Name the debates that brought Lincoln fame even though he lost the election
What is the Lincoln - Douglas debates
500
In the Dred Scott case, the Supreme Court ruled that this was illegal
What is The Compromise of 1850
500
How did Uncle Tom's Cabin threaten supporters of slavery?
What is the book described what life was like as a slave and it started to changes people's minds on slavery.