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Pre-Civil
Pre-Civil
Civil
Reconstruction
Reconstruction
100
This state had a special reference when both Northerners and Southerners rushed weapons into it's territory.
What is Bleeding Kansas
100
This state led the way to secession.
What is S. Carolina
100
Two battles fought at Manasses are also called by this name
What is Bull Run
100
Laws that enforced the separation of the races
What is Jim Crow
100
A Radical Republican responsible for claiming the South as conquered provinces
Who is Thaddeus Stevens
200
April 12, 1861
What is Ft. Sumter
200
The Republican candidate in the election of 1860
Who is Lincoln
200
The battle that split the Confederacy in half
What is Vicksburg
200
A southern "scoundral"
What is scalawag
200
He became President after Lincoln's assasination
Who is Andrew Johnson
300
A proposal to seize Cuba by force if Spain refused to sell it.
What is Ostend Manifesto
300
This was written by Harriet Beecher Stowe and infuriated the South
What is Uncle Tom's Cabin
300
The battle that prompted Lincoln to release the Emancipation Proclamation
What is Antietam
300
To bring a high government official to trial (usually the president)
What is impeachment
300
He shot Lincoln
Who is John Wilkes Booth
400
He opposed all compromise on the issue of slavery
Who is John C. Calhoun
400
He remained largely inactive when the southern states seceded from the nation
Who is Buchannan
400
Fugitive slaves during the war
What is contraband
400
An effort by Congress to end lawlessness by secret societies
What is Force Acts (or Enforcement Acts)
400
He supported the idea that the southern states committed "state suicide" when they seceded from the Union
Who is Charles Sumner
500
The Constitutional Union Party had previously been this political party.
What is Whigs
500
He proposed the terms of the Missouri Compromise and was known as the "Great Compromiser"
Who is Henry Clay
500
The democratic candidate for President in 1864
Who is McClellan
500
Under this plan for reconstruction, confederate war debts would be repudiated
What is Wade-Davis Bill
500
A fixed tax on every voter
What is poll tax