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100
Policy by Stephen Douglas that allowed the people in a territory to decide for themselves about the issue of slavery.
What is Popular Sovereignty?
100
She helped over three hundred slaves to freedom on the Underground Railroad.
Who is Harriet Tubman?
100
This was the main goal of the North throughout the war.
What is to preserve the Union.
100
The place where Robert Lee surrendered to Grant to effectively end the Civil War.
What is Appomattox?
100
He was the President of the Confederate States of America.
Who is Jefferson Davis?
200
This made it clear to the country that "slaves were property".
What is The Dred Scott Case?
200
The author of "Uncle Tom's Cabin" who met Lincoln who stated that they were the person "who started this great war."
Who is Harriet Beecher Stowe?
200
The South based it's reason for seceding on this principle.
What is States' Rights Theory?
200
A three day battle that is known as the "turning point" of the war.
What is Gettysburg?
200
This was the first state to secede.
What is South Carolina.
300
This event was marked by a man trying to start a slave revolt by arming slaves with weapons.
What is John Brown's raid at Harper's Ferry?
300
A motivational speaker who spoke out for equality for blacks and whites and for women's rights.
Who is Sojourner Truth?
300
Better military leadership.
What is an advantage of the South?
300
An important "win" for Lincoln so that he could release his Emancipation Proclamation.
What is Anteitam?
300
The main goal of the Seneca Falls Convention of 1848.
What was to gain equal rights for women?
400
After accusing a southern Congressman of having no morals for his support of slavery, he is severely beaten.
What is known as the "caning in the senate"?
400
Wrote an autobiography about the hardships of growing up as a slave.
Who is Frederick Douglass?
400
More people and industry to make war supplies.
What are advantages for the North?
400
This campaign gave Union roops complete control over the Mississippi River.
What is the Siege of Vicksburg.
400
Lincoln's "A house divided against itself cannot stand." speech makes this clear to the nation.
What is that sectional differences had to be decided because they threatened to destroy the country?
500
This event was the IMMEDIATE cause of the secession of several Southern states from the Union in 1860.
What is the election of Abraham Lincoln?
500
An editor and publisher of "The Liberator" who encouraged Northerners to help the cause of slavery.
Who is William Lloyd Garrison.
500
A false assumption the South made about European nations.
What is that Europe would side with the South because it would need its cotton.
500
The North's policy of destroying everything in order to show civilians the impact of war.
What is "total war"?
500
US citizens would now be required to help capture runaway slaves.
What is the Fugitive Slave Law passed as a provision of the Compromise of 1850?