A bloody battle in Pennsylvania that inspired Abraham Lincoln to give an Address.
What is Gettysburg?
100
Required all citizens to help catch runaway slaves.
What is the Fugitive Slave Act?
100
Union General William Tecumseh Sherman marched towards Savannah, Georgia using total war.
What is Sherman's March to the Sea?
100
This amendment ended slavery everywhere in the United States.
What is the Thirteenth Amendment?
200
President of the Confederate States of America
Who is Jefferson Davis?
200
The attack on this place marked the beginning of the Civil War.
What is Fort Sumter?
200
Plan that preserved the balance between slave and free states.
What is the Missouri Compromise?
200
Victory here allowed the Union to complete their control of the Mississippi River.
What is Vicksburg?
200
The main topic of the Lincoln-Douglas debates.
What is slavery?
300
Sued the government for his freedom, but lost because he was not legally a citizen of the United States.
Who is Dred Scott?
300
The single bloodiest day of the Civil War, Abraham Lincoln used the victory as an opportunity to take action against slavery.
What is the Battle of Antietam?
300
Letting the people choose whether or not a state would be slave or free.
What is popular sovereignty?
300
Escorted slaves along the Underground Railroad and spied on Confederate troops.
Who is Harriet Tubman?
300
One of many women who served their country for the first time as nurses.
Who is Clara Barton?
400
Attacked an arsenal at Harper's Ferry and believed it was God's will to end slavery.
Who is John Brown?
400
First major battle of the Civil War, spectators watched from the sidelines.
What is the First Battle of Bull Run?
400
"... all persons held as slaves within any state... in rebellion against the United States, shall be then, thenceforward, and forever free."
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
400
The battle between these two ironclads marked a new age in naval warfare.
What is the Monitor and the Merrimack?
400
The first territory to shed blood in a civil war over slavery.
What is Kansas?
500
Accepted Robert E. Lee's surrender at Appomattox Court House.
Who is Ulysses S. Grant?
500
At this two day battle named after a church, Union General Ulysses S. Grant defeated the Confederacy and allowed the United States to take control of the Mississippi River.
What is Shiloh?
500
Abraham Lincoln's speech helped war-weary Americans look beyond the images of the battlefield and focus on their shared ideals after a bloody battle.
What is the Gettysburg Address?
500
A meeting between Union and Confederate Generals that ended the Civil War.
What is Surrender at Appomattox Court House?
500
Written by Harriet Beecher Stowe and showed slavery as a brutal, cruel institution.