The Supreme Court Justice in the ruling in the Dred Scott Case.
Who is Roger B. Taney?
100
The Border States that later sided with the Confederate States of America after the call to arms from the South after the Battle of Fort Sumter.
What are Virginia, North Carolina, Tennessee, and Arkansas?
100
The organization that provided blacks with food, education, and medical care in the early reconstruction period.
What is the Freedmen’s Bureau?
100
The first major Union offensive against the Confederacy after the Battle of Bull Run.
What was the Peninsula Campaign?
200
This debate demonstrated the power of state legislators over widespread support in congressional districts.
What were the Lincoln-Douglas Debates?
200
England over the prosperous years harbored and oversupply of cotton. India also served as a major cotton supplier, and the English public favored the Union’s ideal of the end of slavery.
Why did the South lose it's status of “King Cotton?”
200
The repressive laws passed by the Southern States that tried to force blacks back into slave labor in the beginning years of Reconstruction.
What are The Black Codes?
200
The Southern General that was famously shot and killed by friendly fire.
Who was Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson?
300
Referred to the “homestead of the free” in Whittier’s marching song (1854).
What is Kansas?
300
The first battle utilizing ironclad ships, including the Monitor and the Virginia (Merrimack), in naval warfare.
What was the Battle of Hampton Roads (1862)?
300
The social group that was upset about being excluded from the 14th and 15th Amendments.
Who are women?
300
This was Winfield Scott's plan to cripple the Southern economy by taking control of the Mississippi River.
What was the Anaconda Plan?
300
This political party was most heavily opposed to the Lecompton Constitution which was supported by James Buchanan of the Democratic party.
What is the Free-soil Party?
400
The higher social class family that Lincoln married into.
What is the Todd family of Kentucky ?
400
Women were the forefront of medical care during this Period. This person created the American Red Cross and later formed the U.S. Sanitary Commission.
Who is Clara Barton?
400
The Southern state that escaped Military Reconstruction by ratifying the 14th Amendment.
What is Tennessee?
400
The Southern Ironclad "Merrimack" was defeated by this Union ship.
What is the "Monitor"?
400
This leader of the 54th Massachusetts Regiment lost his life on the futile attack on South Carolina’s Fort Wagner in July 1863.
Who is Brahmin Robert Gould Shaw?
500
The 4 month period from November 1860 to March 1861 when Lincoln still could not take office, even though he was already elected.
What is the “lame duck” interlude?
500
Over the Course of the Civil War, Lincoln went through many Generals. These (in order) were his generals.
Who are 1) Scott, 2) McDowell, 3) McClelland, 4) Pope, 5) McClelland, 6) Burnside, and 7) Grant?
500
The head of the Joint Committee on Reconstruction.
Who was Thaddeus Stephens?
500
Fighting still occurred in this state after the Civil War officially ended.
What is North Carolina?
500
This organization sent white school teachers to educate former slaves when there weren’t enough black teachers to share between students. (Hint: Not the Freedmen’s Bureau)