The very honest president of the Union during the Civil War.
Who is Abraham Lincoln? (Honest Abe)
100
This fort in South Carolina was the place where the first shots were fired in the Civil War.
What is Fort Sumter.
100
This was a big problem that the North had with the Southern way of life. The North did not agree with this system.
What is slavery?
100
This system allowed slaves to be send from Africa to the Caribbean Islands, to the United States.
What was the Transatlantic Slave Trade?
100
This was a major reason for the high loss of life during the Civil War.
What is improved weaponry?
200
A free slave who pressured Lincoln to emancipate all blacks in America.
Who was Frederick Douglass?
200
This battle cost 24,000 men their lives in a total of 8 hours. The bloodiest single day of the war.
What was the Battle of Antietam?
200
The South felt inferior to the North because they lacked this form of production. The North used this method of production to convert raw materials to more expensive goods.
What is manufacturing?
200
This word was used to describe people who were against slavery and wanted to end this system.
What is an abolitionist?
200
This famous "Mainer" was credited with the victory at Gettysburg.
Who was Joshua Chamberlain?
300
This famous general was responsible for defeating the Confederacy in Petersburg and ending the war.
Who was Ulysses S. Grant?
300
This battle serves as the turning point of the war. The South is defeated and weakened after this three day conflict.
What was the battle of Gettysburg?
300
This speech made all the slaves in the United States free from their masters.
What was the Emancipation Proclamation?
300
The name for the system of smuggling slaves from the south to freedom in Canada.
What was the Underground Railroad?
300
This scary, hairy, man was the fearsome general for the Union who burned most of Georgia and South Carolina to the ground. His actions help break the South and win the war for the North.
Who was William Sherman?
400
The most powerful general in all of the war. He fought for the South.
Who was Robert E. Lee?
400
The Union gains control of the Mississippi River and the western land of the Confederacy after this siege.
What was the Siege of Vicksburg?
400
This law was very unpopular. It forces men aged 20-45 from the North into the military.
What was the First Conscription Act?
400
This grizzly job was set aside for most Africans in the Union army.
What was bone collecting?
400
This word means to break away from a larger group. This is what the South did to create the Civil War.
What is secession?
500
The president of the Confederate States of America.
Who was Jefferson Davies?
500
During the end of Sherman's march to the sea, this major supply town was burned to the ground by the Union.
What is Savannah, Georgia?
500
This law required all runaway slaves found in the North to be arrested and returned to their masters in the South.
What was the Fugitive Slave Act?
500
The name of the slave who sued his master for freedom. The resulting decision from the Supreme Court made slavery legal in the United States.
Who was Dred Scott?
500
This invention helped keep Lincoln and his generals in constant contact. It was an early form of email.