Terms
People
Events
Laws
Misc
100
Wearing down of your enemy bit by bit
What is Attrition
100
Moses of her people. Snuck slaves out of the deep south to freedom in Canada
Who is Harriet Tubman
100
This is where the Civil War began
What is Fort Sumner
100
This law allowed slave catchers to come into the north and legally kidnap African Americans and make them slaves
What is the Fugitive Slave Law
100
Where was the first National Cemetery located?
What is Gettysburg
200
Leaving the Union
What is Secession
200
Lead a revolt on Harpers Ferry, Tried for treason, and hung. Became a martyr in the north, an enemy to the south
Who is John Brown
200
This is term given to the Mini Civil War that occured 9 years before the American Civil War
What is Bleeding Kansas?
200
Treaty of Guadalupe Hildago gave the United States the idea to implement this, which allowed entering states to decide if they wanted to become slave or free
What is popular soveriginty
200
This killed more men on the battlefield than the Minne ball and Cannon Balls combined
What is Disease
300
Slang for Papermoney
What is Greenbacks
300
President of the Confederacy
Who is Jefferson Davis
300
Site of the deadliest, bloodiest single battle in the History of the United States
What is Antietam
300
True or False: The Emancipation Proclamation freed ALL of the slaves
What is False; only those at war with the Union
300
Name of the 1st all African American regiment as depicted in the movie Glory.
What is Massachusetts 54th
400
Group of Democrats that wanted to negotiate peace with the south
What is Copperheads
400
Graduate of West Point, leader of the Confederate army
Who is General Lee
400
This prison held Union soldiers in deplorable condition where they died at a rate of about 100 a day.
What is Andersonville, Georgia
400
This law started the Trail of Tears
What is Indian Removal Act
400
Name Three Ways the Civil War changed America
What is Medicine, Tactics, Weapons, Information Sharing (telegraphs) Popular Opinion , War Time Journalism
500
Belief that North America was given to whites to spread the word of God
What is Manifest Desitny
500
This woman revolutionized Battlefield Nursing. She went on to found the American Red Cross
Who is Clara Barton
500
On the his march south, General Sherman burnt down the city of___________
What is Atlanta
500
The Constitutional Amendment that outlawed slavery
What is 13th Amendment
500
Name of the family that resorted to canibalism when they got stuck in the Oregon Trail
What is the Donner Party