Which state was the first to secede from the Union in December of 1860, shortly after Lincoln's election?
What is South Carolina?
100
The number of parties vying for the Presidency in the 1860 election.
What is 3?
100
Who was the President of the Confederacy once it was created?
Who is Jefferson Davis?
100
Date: April 12, 1861
Winner: Confederate Victory
Important because: Opening shots of the war
What is Fort Sumter?
100
This amendment abolished slavery in the United States.
What is the 13th amendment?
200
The event in which violence broke out over the issue of popular sovereignty. John Brown was involved. This was an effect of the Kansas-Nebraska act.
What is Bleeding Kansas?
200
Which party split before the election, leading to the election having 2 candidates for one party?
What is the Democratic Party?
200
This was the most famous general of the Confederacy. (And the only one you have to know for the final)
Who is Robert E. Lee?
200
Date: July 21, 1861
Winner: Confederate Victory
Important because: Marked that the war was going to be much bloodier and drawn out than previously anticipated
What is First Manassas (or Bull Run)?
200
This amendment guarantees citizenship for African Americans and equal protection under the law.
What is the 14th amendment?
300
This was the failed uprising led by John Brown in Virginia resulted in his death. He hoped that slaves would join him, but they never showed.
What is the raid on Harper's Ferry?
300
Which candidate won the popular vote?
Who is John Bell?
300
This was the Union General in charge of the Atlanta campaign.
Who is William T. Sherman?
300
Date: September 17, 1862
Winner: Union Victory
Important because: Decisive victory for the north, leading Lincoln to decide to give the Emancipation proclamation
What is Antietam?
300
This amendment granted African American men the right to vote.
What is the 15th amendment?
400
The issue of (blank) caused the Democratic party to split.
What is slavery in the territories?
400
Name the three parties and their four candidates.
Republican Party: Abraham Lincoln
Democratic Party South: John C. Breckinridge
Democratic Party North: Stephen Douglas
Constitutional Union Party: John Bell
400
This Union General went on the become the 18th president of the United States?
Who is Ulysses Grant?
400
Date: Summer of 1864
Winner: Union
Important because: Destroyed major suppliers and railroads of the Confederacy
Hint: Also known as Sherman's March to the Sea
What is the Atlanta Campaign?
400
What were slaves labeled as under the Confiscation Act?
What is contraband?
500
Which event do you feel is the most important cause of the Civil War and why?
OPINION QUESTION
500
True or False: Abraham Lincoln won the popular vote AND the electoral college.
False: Lincoln lost the popular vote to the Constitutional Union candidate but won the electoral college.
500
This Northern General won the Battle of Antietam at a heavy cost.
Who is George McClellan?
500
Date: April 9, 1865
Winner: Union Victory
Important because: Final major battle of the war which ends in Confederate surrender