This terms describes the action of people living in a territory voting on whether to permit slavery or not.
What is Popular Sovereignity?
100
This event caused Southern States to Secede in 1860.
What is the presidential election of 1860/election of Lincoln?
100
This battle is a "bloodless beginning to the bloodiest war in American History."
What is Fort Sumter?
100
The following phrase from the Gettysburg Address refers to this event in American History
“Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation….”
What is the American Revolution?
100
As a result of Reconstruction, these three Amendments were created.
What are the 13th, 14th, and 15th?
200
As a result of this divisive issue various laws were passed prior to the Civil War to determine its legality.
What is slavery?
200
This was the main goal of Lincoln’s Presidential Administration.
What is maintain the union?
200
The Confederates won this first major battle of the Civil War, but failed to take Washington D.C.
What is the battle of Bull Run?
200
President Andrew Johnson’s impeachment trial took place because he violated this Act.
What is the Tenure of Office Act?
200
Which of the following events in the list happened first?
Cotton Gin Invented
Stamp Act
French-Indian War
U.S. Constitution is written
George Washington takes the oath of office as President
What is the French-Indian War?
300
This piece of literature was the most persuasive anti-slavery propaganda of its time.
What is Uncle Tom's Cabin?
300
John Brown is responsible for starting these two events.
What are the Potawatomie Massacre and the raid on Harper's Ferry?
300
This battle was the bloodiest single day battle in American History, but there was no clear winner.
What is the battle of Antietam?
300
This was Lincoln's official position at the end of the war concerning the Confederate States.
What is they never left the union?
300
Which event in the list happened last?
Cotton Gin Invented
Stamp Act
French-Indian War
U.S. Constitution is written
George Washington takes the oath of office as President
What is the invention of the Cotton Gin?
400
California became a free state as a result of this legislation.
What is the Compromise of 1850?
400
These two battles are considered turning points in the Civil War.
What are Gettysburg and Vicksburg?
400
This battle was the last time that the Confederacy tried to invade the north.
What is Gettysburg?
400
The goal of this group was to take rights, such as voting, away from African-Americans after the Civil War.
What is the Ku Klux Klan (KKK)?
400
Which event in the list happened first?
Abraham Lincoln is assassinated
George Washington is elected as the first President
Jamestown is founded
Battles of Lexington & Concord
15th Amendment is ratified
What is Jamestown is founded?
500
This Supreme Court Case denied citizenship to African-Americans.
What is Dred Scott v. Sanford?
500
This document freed the slaves across the South, but only in those areas still in rebellion.
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
500
This is the last major battle of the Civil War where Lee surrendered to Grant.
What is Appomatox Courthouse?
500
The methods used by the KKK to intimidate African-Americans included this horrific practice.
What is Lynching?
500
Which event in the list happened last?
Abraham Lincoln is assassinated
George Washington is elected as the first President
Jamestown is founded
Battles of Lexington & Concord
15th Amendment is ratified