Antebellum
The Great Compromiser, this cofounder of the Whig Party was also a Senator from Kentucky and member of the American Colonization Society.
Who is Henry Clay?
This president won a four-way race in 1860.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
This Union General was responsible for creating the successful Anaconda Plan.
Who is Winfield Scott?
This actor thought he could hand the Confederates a late victory by assassinating the President of the United States of America.
Who is John Wilkes Booth?
What is "Our American Cousin"?
A gold rush in 1849 contributed to this Western state joining the Union as part of the Compromise of 1850.
What is California?
This president was impeached, but not for his mishandling of Reconstruction.
Who is Andrew Johnson?
This naval base was held by Union soldiers when South Carolina seceded in December of 1860, leading to the first naval battle of the Civil War.
What is Fort Sumter?
This man famously had the war break out in his front yard and end in his front living room.
Who is Wilmer McLean?
The Gettysburg Address was given in this Union state.
What is Pennsylvania?
This president did nothing about Bleeding Kansas, little about Fort Sumter, and pressured the Supreme Court towards its heinous decision in Dred Scott v. Sanford.
Who is James Buchanan?
Who is Jefferson Davis?
This base was the site of a massacre, where Nathan Bedford Forrest and his man took no prisoners even after their surrender.
What is Fort Pillow?
The Union Army had to pivot from its win at Gettysburg directly to this Northern city when a draft riot there evolved into a race riot.
What is New York City?
Though the Union lost the battle at this South Carolina location, the 54th Massachusetts proved their worth as fighting soldiers.
What is Fort Sumter?
While it never became law, this proposed legislation following the Mexican-American War signaled to the slave states of the American South that Republicans in the North were definitely trying to outlaw slavery.
What is the Wilmost Proviso?
This man waged a questionable war against one country and threatened war against another to expand America's empire all the way to the Pacific Coast.
Who is James K. Polk?
This Confederate camp for Union prisoners of war is particularly famous for its horrific conditions.
What is Andersonville?
This Secretary of State survived an assassination attempt on the night of April 14, 1865.
Who is William Seward?
The Ten Percent Plan included the requirement that returning Confederate states ratify this.
What is the 14th Amendment?
This official agreement did more than end war in 1848-- it also drastically expanded United States territory in the West.
What is the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo?
This man did nothing to calm rising tensions in the leadup to the Civil War, did nothing when South Carolina seceded, and corrupted the Supreme Court by pressuring Justices.
Who is James Buchanan?
What is Antietam?
This Union general is blamed for all of the destruction caused by his March to the Sea, when in fact the Confederacy is also to blame.
Who is William T. Sherman?
This man beat Massachusetts Senator Charles Sumner nearly to death for criticizing both his uncle and the South for the practice of slavery.
Who is Preston Brooks?