What was the main crop harvested by slaves during and before the civil war?
Cotton
100
Who was the President of the United States during the Civil War?
Abraham Lincoln
100
What battle is considered the turning point of the civil war in which the south lost and the north won?
Gettysburg
100
Why did the compromises of the 1800s always bring in a free state along with a slave state into the country?
Equal senators so slavery wouldn't be abolished
100
In what state was the capital of the Confederacy located?
Virginia
200
What was the system of safe houses that slaves used to escape north?
Underground Railroad
200
Who was the South's best general who ended up losing at Gettysburg?
Robert E. Lee
200
Which battle solidified Union control of the Mississippi and was won by General Grant?
Vicksburg
200
What compromise that was named after a state, admitted Maine into the USA as a free state?
Missouri Compromise
200
What was the name for the snake-like plan that attempted to surround the confederacy from the Ohio river, down the Mississippi, to the gulf of mexico and around the Atlantic ocean?
Anaconda Plan
300
Which one of these methods would slaves not use to resist slavery?
Breaking tools
Pretending to be dumb
Working hard
Stealing food
Working hard
300
Who took over the Union army after Gettysburg and lead the Union army for the remainder of the war?
Ulysses S. Grant
300
What was the first battle of the civil war? (be specific)
First Battle of Bull Run
300
What compromise made the Fugitive Slave Act, which said that escaped slaves had to be returned to their owners, and made California a free state?
compromise of 1850
300
What was the South's main goal in the war, and why did that make it easier for them to defend?
Wanted to become their own country
400
Who was the escaped slave who helped hundreds of other slaves escape from the south using a system of safehouses?
Harriet Tubman
400
What confederate general had the nickname "Stonewall?"
Thomas Jackson
400
Which battle saw David Farragut cut off the Mississippi from the Gulf of Mexico?
New Orleans
400
What abolitionist led the raid on Harpers Ferry in a plot to try and rid the south of slaves?
John Brown
400
What was the North's main goal, and why did that mean that they had to attack the confederacy to win?
They wanted to bring south back into the Union
500
What document freed slaves in the south but not in the border states?
Emancipation Proclaimation
500
Name the general of the Union who used total war to help destroy much of Georgia's infrastructure in a "march to the sea?"
General Sherman
500
What battle was considered to be Robert e. Lee's perfect battle and saw one of the confederacy's best generals die?
Chancellorsville
500
What act, named after two states, stated that territories trying to become states could chose if they wanted to become a slave state or a free state?
Kansas-Nebraska Act
500
Which state had the most slaves in the South before the Civil War started?