This man led an attack on Harper's Ferry Virginia in an attempt to start a slave uprising.
Who is John Brown
100
The attack on this union controlled fort in Charleston harbor by Confederate soldiers started the war between the states.
What is Fort Sumter
100
This man was president during the war and helped to lead the Union to victory.
Who is Abraham Lincoln
100
This union plan called for surrounding the rebel states by blockading the southern coastline and gaining control of the Mississippi river.
What is the Anaconda Plan
100
This famous executive order issued by the president freed all slaves in areas that were part of the Confederacy.
What is the Emancipation Proclamation
200
This compromise included admitting California to the union as a free state and created a more powerful fugitive slave act.
What is the Compromise of 1850
200
This battle fought in Maryland is still the bloodiest day in American history.
What is the Battle of Antietam
200
This man was the president of the Confederate States of America.
Who is Jefferson Davis
200
Sherman's March to the Sea was an example of this concept of warfare, in which civilian infrastructure used to support the war effort is also destroyed along with the enemies military.
What is total war
200
This amendment ended slavery
What is the 13th Amendment
300
This is the concept that people living in the territories would decide through a vote if the territory would become a free or a slave state.
What is popular sovereignty
300
This important turning point Battle stopped the final Confederate invasion of the North and helped to turn the tide of the war in favor of the Union.
What is the Battle of Gettysburg
300
This General who lead the Union to victory at Vicksburg was chosen by Lincoln to lead the Union army in 1864.
Who is Ulysses S. Grant
300
This is the term used to describe a state leaving the union.
What is secession
300
This man assassinated the president at Ford's theater just days after the war had come to an end.
Who is John Wilkes Booth
400
This act allowed territories in the west to decide if they wanted to allow slavery or not.
What is the Kansas-Nebraska Act
400
This turning point battle gave the Union control over the Mississippi river
What is the Battle of Vicksburg
400
This man was the leader of the Army of Northern Virginia and the Confederacy's most important general.
Who is Robert E. Lee
400
These slave states remained loyal to the union during the Civil War.
What are the border states
400
This famous presidential speech was delivered at the dedication of a battlefield cemetery for union soldiers. It inspired the nation to continue the war effort and has become one of the most famous speeches in history.
What is the Gettysburg Address
500
This controversial Supreme Court decision from 1857 ruled that African Americans could not become American citizens.
What is the Dred Scott decision
500
This location was where Robert E. Lee surrendered to Ulysses S. Grant at the end of the war.
What is Appomattox Court House
500
This important union general famously marched his army from Atlanta to Savannah, which destroyed the south's ability to continue the war.
Who is William Tecumseh Sherman
500
This legendary African American unit of soldiers during the Civil War proved that African Americans could fight for their freedom and inspired the union to enlist more African American soldiers.
What is the 54th Massachusetts
500
The defeat of the Confederate States of America allowed Lincoln not only to end slavery but also to do this, which was the Lincoln's original goal in the war.